The Senate Infrastructure Committee approved this Tuesday (3) a bill that creates guidelines for holding public hearings called by electricity distributors and the ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency).
The bill took 14 years to be approved by the Chamber of Deputies, which only happened in August 2023. Fulfilling its role as reviewer, the Senate made changes to the text, which will make the bill return to the House of Origin. First, it must pass through the Transparency, Governance, Oversight and Control and Consumer Protection Committee and then through the Upper House Plenary.
The author of the original text, Cleber Verde (MDB-PB), remains a federal deputy, and has already been elected four more times since he submitted this project in 2009. This Tuesday, the rapporteur, Senator Veneziano Vital do Rêgo, changed parts of the project.
He removed specific rules regarding the way hearings were called – there were references to the size of letters contained in the notices on consumers' invoices. And he also excluded the parts that established that the location of the public hearings should have at least 140 seats, as well as the mandatory presence of company directors. ANEEL at the meeting.
“The details defined by ANEEL will be more effective if contained in a regulatory resolution of the agency itself. As guidelines, we propose, for example, that notices of summons can be disseminated primarily by electronic means, which will allow for faster changes, if necessary”, stated the rapporteur.
“However, we require that notices be published at least 15 days in advance of the hearing date, and we propose that the hearing be held in a location that can accommodate the largest possible number of participants, ensuring adequate access and security conditions to accommodate consumers, agents in the electricity sector and other interested parties. There is no need to stipulate the number of seats,” he concluded.
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