ANAC (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil) is the Brazilian agency responsible for the regulation and the safety oversight of civil aviation. Established in March 2006, ANAC incorporated the staff, the structure and the functions of the Air Force’s Civil Aviation Department (DAC), the former civil aviation authority.
Constituted as a special autarchy with status of regulatory agency, ANAC has a five member board (five directors, one of them being the president), all of them nominated by the President of Brazil and approved by the Senate, with a mandate of up to 5 years. Each director is in charge of one or more areas, as indicated:
Director-President
Solange Paiva Vieira
Director of Aircraft Operations
Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino
Director of Airworthiness
Cláudio Passos Simão
Director of Economic Regulation
Ricardo Sérgio Maia Bezerra
Director of Airport Infrastructure
Rubens Carlos Vieira
The agency is subordinated to the President of Brazil, and is linked, operationally and budgetarily, to the Ministry of Defense.ANAC’s headquarters is in Brasília, and there are also seven regional offices in the country: Belém, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Brasília and Manaus.
