On June 8, 2018, the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and
Services published - Secex Ordinance No. 30/2018, which deals with
the regulation of the DECOM Digital System—a digital platform
developed with the purpose of granting remote access to the records
of the processes handled by the Department of Trade Defense
("DECOM").
The entry into force of Secex Ordinance No. 30/2018 represents the
expansion of the DECOM Digital System to investigations involving
subsidies and safeguards. Previously, such system covered only
antidumping investigations conducted by DECOM.
The DECOM Digital System aims at facilitating access of interested
parties in procedures concerning antidumping, subsidy and safeguard
investigations. The records of all administrative procedures
handled by DECOM will be available on the Internet, twenty-four
hours a day, and interested and qualified parties will be able to
use the system to monitor investigations and to submit
documents.
Accordingly – and considering that all procedural acts within
the DECOM Digital System require a digital
signature—interested and qualified parties must obtain the a
digital certificate (ICP-Brasil standard) issued by an accredited
certification authority, as well as the respective portable
cryptographic device.
The DECOM Digital System increases speed and transparency of
investigations involving trade defense matters, as well as reduces
costs related to paper usage. According to DECOM, further
improvements in the system are expected in the second half of
2018.
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