📋 Tender Overview
The Plenary approved, this Wednesday (12), the appointment of Severino Medeiros Ramos Neto, made by the Presidency of the Republic, for the position of director of the National Land Transport Agency (ANTT), by 55 votes in favor and one against. He will fill the vacancy resulting from the inauguration of Guilherme Theo Rodrigues da Rocha Sampaio as General Director of ANTT.
The nominee has a degree in legal sciences, a masters degree in environmental law and is currently pursuing a doctorate in law. He has experience in public law, and was a sectional advisor to the OAB of Paraiba in the three-year periods from 2019 to 2021 and from 2022 to 2024. He was also a consultant member of the Special Legislative Monitoring Commission of the Federal Council of the OAB, from 2022 to 2024.
During the vote, senator Veneziano Vital do Rego (MDB-PB) asked for a favorable vote for his fellow countryman from Paraiba, and said that the state bench was honored and happy to vote for the nominee.
-- We feel happy and honored to be able to participate in the nomination and to be able to vote in favor, not only because of, Senator President, this condition, of a figure from Cariri Paraiba, of a fellow countryman of ours, but above all and mainly, because of his personal values, objectively analyzed by our rapporteur on the Infrastructure Committee, Senator Jayme Campos, I am referring to our dear Mr. Severino Medereios Ramos Neto, and we are here asking our companions for this same understanding, this same understanding and the vote in favor so that the competent citizen who has exercised duties as a lawyer over the last few years, demonstrating this competence, can also hold one of the ANTT chairs -- stated the parliamentarian.
The request for support was also followed by senator Efraim Filho (Uniao-PB).
-- As a Paraiba native, I will, of course, endorse the support of the Uniao Brasil bench and ask the entire Plenary to vote yes to the one that, among so many qualities, must be from Paraiba, Dr. Severino Medeiros Ramos Neto.
ANTT
Created by , ANTT is an agency under a special regime, which has its headquarters and jurisdiction in the Federal District, and is present throughout the national territory through regional units and inspection posts.
Its purpose is to regulate, supervise and inspect the activities of providing services and operating the transport infrastructure, carried out by third parties, aiming to guarantee the movement of people and goods, harmonize the interests of users with those of concessionary, permissioned, authorized and lessee companies, and delegated entities, preserving the public interest, arbitrating conflicts of interest and preventing situations that constitute imperfect competition or infringement against the economic order.
ANTTs sphere of activity constitutes: rail transport of passengers and cargo throughout the National Transport System; the operation of railway infrastructure and the leasing of corresponding operational assets; interstate and international road transport of passengers; road freight transport; the exploitation of federal road infrastructure; multimodal transport; and the transport of special and dangerous cargo on highways and railways.
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