Our partner Thiago Cardoso Araújo spoke this week at the 21st ENAPC – National Meeting of Lawyers for Closed Supplementary Pension Schemes, organised by Abrapp – the Brazilian Association of Closed Supplementary Pension Schemes – in Brasília and sponsored by Bocater.

Thiago took part in the panel discussion entitled ‘TCU, TCEs and Previc: Limits of Oversight, Conflicts of Jurisdiction and Legal Certainty for Closed Supplementary Pension Schemes’, a timely debate given the current process of redefining the scope of oversight exercised over closed supplementary pension schemes.

“The expansion of the remit of the Courts of Auditors, the powers legally conferred on Previc and the need to avoid institutional overlaps highlight a central question: how can effective oversight be ensured without compromising legal certainty and without duplicating supervisory structures?”, asked Thiago. In his speech, he focused in particular on the most recent developments relating to the TCU’s oversight of EFPCs and ADPF 817, currently pending before the STF, highlighting the importance of a clear definition of the limits and manner in which such oversight is exercised.

Other members of the firm’s team also attended the event, which is one of the most significant in the country in this field and brought together experts to discuss the main legal challenges, regulatory trends and the latest legal arguments affecting supplementary pensions in Brazil. Among the topics covered were legal certainty and strategies for risk mitigation and the harmonisation of judicial decisions in the pension sector; innovation, management and the application of new technologies in large-scale strategic litigation; and governance, regulation and the alignment of best governance practices with updates to the regulatory framework.

We congratulate Abrapp on hosting yet another edition of ENAPC!