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Facilitation Protocol also provides for the joint venture institute which in short is characterized as a joint company. There is also the institution of a group of companies that can be brought together in a horizontal relationship under the same business objective or in a vertical relationship subordinate to a controlling unit Albuquerque ; Barza ; Ferraz .
Article II of the Agreement on the Facilitation of Business Activities provides for investor activity as being of a business nature. On April the Intra-Mercosur Investment Cooperation and Facilitation CG Leads Protocol was signed. In this instrument free transfer was regulated — without restricting the ETN's activities to the direct or indirect modality — and investment was defined as a company characterized by the “commitment of capital the establishment of lasting interest the expectation of gain or profit and the assumption of risks” .
Even though it can be carried out through direct or indirect action by the ETN the investment will be classified as direct or indirect according to the proportion of the transnational's control in the management of the national company. The direct modality denotes greater financial and administrative participation and the indirect modality results in the application of less capital from abroad without significant formal interference in decisions and actions Albuquerque ; Barza ; Ferraz .
Regarding investment from abroad in Brazil the Presidential Decree of December was published. This normative instrument recognized the Brazilian interest in the acquisition by individuals and legal entities resident domiciled or headquartered abroad of shares without the right to vote of publicly traded financial institutions based in the country. In this case there are no restrictions regarding the direct or indirect action of the ETN.
Furthermore there is Brazilian Law No. of December which establishes the Legal Framework for Exchange and regulates Brazilian capital abroad and foreign capital in the country. In this instrument article provides that foreign capital will be given “the same legal treatment as that granted to national capital under equal conditions” . Under these conditions there is wide openness for investment from abroad to be admitted into Brazil.
The provision of equality between foreign and national capital was also established in the Intra-Mercosur Investment Cooperation and Facilitation Protocol. In article there is a provision that “a State Party will grant investors from another State Party and their investments treatment no less favorable than that granted in similar circumstances to its own investors and their investments” .
There is also an express provision in the Intra-Mercosur Investment Cooperation and Facilitation Protocol that each State “will ensure that its laws regulations and administrative acts of general application on any subject covered” “are published and will make its best efforts to place them available in electronic format” . This practice contributes to equal investment conditions by facilitating access to information.
There is the consolidation of the role of TNCs in the relationship between countries and their private sectors to fulfill the region's purpose of macroeconomic strengthening. The Mercosur normative instrument assigned investment the role of “promoting sustainable development economic growth poverty reduction job creation expansion of productive capacity and human development” .
Article II of the Agreement on the Facilitation of Business Activities provides for investor activity as being of a business nature. On April the Intra-Mercosur Investment Cooperation and Facilitation CG Leads Protocol was signed. In this instrument free transfer was regulated — without restricting the ETN's activities to the direct or indirect modality — and investment was defined as a company characterized by the “commitment of capital the establishment of lasting interest the expectation of gain or profit and the assumption of risks” .
Even though it can be carried out through direct or indirect action by the ETN the investment will be classified as direct or indirect according to the proportion of the transnational's control in the management of the national company. The direct modality denotes greater financial and administrative participation and the indirect modality results in the application of less capital from abroad without significant formal interference in decisions and actions Albuquerque ; Barza ; Ferraz .
Regarding investment from abroad in Brazil the Presidential Decree of December was published. This normative instrument recognized the Brazilian interest in the acquisition by individuals and legal entities resident domiciled or headquartered abroad of shares without the right to vote of publicly traded financial institutions based in the country. In this case there are no restrictions regarding the direct or indirect action of the ETN.
Furthermore there is Brazilian Law No. of December which establishes the Legal Framework for Exchange and regulates Brazilian capital abroad and foreign capital in the country. In this instrument article provides that foreign capital will be given “the same legal treatment as that granted to national capital under equal conditions” . Under these conditions there is wide openness for investment from abroad to be admitted into Brazil.
The provision of equality between foreign and national capital was also established in the Intra-Mercosur Investment Cooperation and Facilitation Protocol. In article there is a provision that “a State Party will grant investors from another State Party and their investments treatment no less favorable than that granted in similar circumstances to its own investors and their investments” .
There is also an express provision in the Intra-Mercosur Investment Cooperation and Facilitation Protocol that each State “will ensure that its laws regulations and administrative acts of general application on any subject covered” “are published and will make its best efforts to place them available in electronic format” . This practice contributes to equal investment conditions by facilitating access to information.
There is the consolidation of the role of TNCs in the relationship between countries and their private sectors to fulfill the region's purpose of macroeconomic strengthening. The Mercosur normative instrument assigned investment the role of “promoting sustainable development economic growth poverty reduction job creation expansion of productive capacity and human development” .