Financial Risk:
Low
Score:
70/100
Asset Disposals
Q24
67/100
How effective are controls over the disposal of assets, and is information on these disposals, and the proceeds of their sale, transparent?
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The general rule in Brazilian administrative law is that public assets are not disposable, due to the predominance of public interest over any private…
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There is no use in evaluating the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) asset disposals, since the MoD itself has a lean structure, and the administration…
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The law establishes protocols of high complexity, generating many documents and checkpoints. Somehow effective control gets lost on the way. So the results of…
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Q25
67/100
Is independent and transparent scrutiny of asset disposals conducted by defence establishments, and are the reports of such scrutiny publicly available?
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The Court of Auditors (TCU) as the federal external control institution audits asset disposals together with all public acquisitions made by the Ministry of…
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There is no evidence of undue influence in the scrutiny of asset disposals of defence institutions. However, this could happen, and according to an…
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No audits of asset disposals made by defence institutions were found within the TCU’s website [1]. However, audit reports are made public by the…
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Secret Budgets
Q26
100/100
What percentage of defence and security expenditure in the budget year is dedicated to spending on secret items relating to national security and the intelligence services?
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Less then 1% of the Brazilian budget is secret, according to Portal da Transparência. All budgetary items that are approved as secret by the…
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Q27
25/100
Is the legislature (or the appropriate legislative committee or members of the legislature) given full information for the budget year on the spending of all secret items relating to national security and military intelligence?
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The Defence Committee is not used to having access to classified documents regarding the year budget because they never ask for it. According to…
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Q28
50/100
Are audit reports of the annual accounts of the security sector (the military and intelligence services) subject to parliamentary debate?
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Legally, the Parliament can have access to any documents, regardless of their classification, and including classified audits made by the Court of Auditors (TCU).…
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Defence-related legislative committees do not discuss the results of audits undertaken by the TCU. There are public hearings where the committees invite ministers and…
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Q29
67/100
In law, are off-budget military expenditures permitted, and if so, are they exceptional occurrences that are well-controlled? In practice, are there any off-budget military expenditures? If so, does evidence suggest this involves illicit economic activity?
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The assessor could not find evidence of the off-budget transactions and expenditure described in the 2015 assessment regarding medals. Legally, union revenues can be…
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All off-budget revenues are recorded in each of the public institution’s financial statements. When these revenues can be spent, they are necessarily included in…
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The creation of additional credits to the planned budget often happens, as it happened for Law and Order Guarantee Operations (GLO) [1]. The use…
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Q30
75/100
Are mechanisms for accessing information from the defence sector effective?
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The Freedom of Information Act (12.527/11) [1] in Brazil is quite strong in terms of defence information. Citizens can send information requests to any…
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This indicator is not assigned a score in the GDI. The Freedom of Information Act (12.527/2011) [1] establishes three classification tiers and sets the…
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If one takes the statistics of the Ministry of Defence, it is effective [1]. However, there is evidence of a considerable variation in compliance…
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Q31
88/100
Do national defence and security institutions have beneficial ownership of commercial businesses? If so, how transparent are details of the operations and finances of such businesses?
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Q32
75/100
Are military-owned businesses subject to transparent independent scrutiny at a recognised international standard?
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The only military-owned businesses [1] are the company Amazul [2], IMBEL [3], Emgepron [4] and NAV Brasil [5]. These companies are subject to the…
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On Amazul’s website, citizens have access to basic information that is mandatorily disclosed due to the Brazilian FOIA, and so does IMBEL and EMGEPRON.…
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Illegal Private Enterprise
Q33
88/100
Is there evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by military or other defence ministry employees? If so, what is the government’s reaction to such enterprise?
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According to the Ministry of Defence Transparency Report, the Public Procurement Law prohibits the participation of any public official in public biddings (Article 9,…
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There are some reported cases by the media involving unauthorised private enterprises by the military, such as the case of Minister Marcos Pontes, who…
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Actual Military Spending
Q77
69/100
Is comprehensive data on actual spending on defence published during the budget year?
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The data is disaggregated and offers a high level of detail on spending. However, there are no explanations regarding the motives and the stages…
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Defence spending is available on the Transparency Portal of the federal government. All purchases are registered and made available on this portal, and the…
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In January 2020, the assessor found details of spendimg in interactive form from 2017 to 2020. Information about actual spending is published constantly on…
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Studies on the planned for the budget and what was executed are released by the legislature when preparing the following year’s budget. This is…
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