Limits to National Surveillance Agency Regulation

In this paper we investigate whether the normative power of the National Health Surveillance Agency - Anvisa has violated the law attracting the jurisdiction of the Judiciary or whether there is a limitation of its regulatory competence when compared to other federal autonomous agencies due to political influence of the government (President of the Republic and National Congress) and the regulated industries. In this perspective we understand that it is up to this Agency having established the discussion about its differentiated normative capacity and considering the laws edited by the National Congress on its limit of competence to fit into state regulation that establishes harmony in the regulatory sector. The controversy over the limitation of ANVISA''s regulatory function includes the diagnosis of the elements of technical regulation - which involves technical-legal regulation and political regulation - that takes into account the conflicting interests of the regulated market.