OBS_VALUE: The regulator for this sector carries out administrative processes electronically through the Electronic Information System (SEI, in Portuguese). The use of electronic means to carry out an administrative process had to be implemented within two years from the date of publication of Decree 8539/2015, i.e. from 09/10/2017 on. The implementation of  National Electronic Process system is well advanced and available for the processing of documents in the bodies and entities of the federal public administration.