New Commercial Code Debate
Debate do Novo Código Comercial (lit. New Commercial Code Debate) was an online debate held in 2011 by the Ministry of Justice. During that year, the National Congress was discussing a bill to reform te the Commercial Code. To collaborate with the improvement of commercial legislation, the Ministry of Justice used its platform to openly discuss the matter and intensify the dialogue among sectors. After the debate was finished, the text was sent to National Congress to help inform the discussion.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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