This article analyzes how federal representatives have exercised their functions in both "legislative" and "political" control in deliberation around international acts. The literature in the field seems to indicate that in Brazil, legal control is faulty, and that within the field of International Relations, much the same could be said. A reconstitution of legislative procedures regarding legislative bills (PDL) has enabled us to identify patterns of interaction of powers, showing that the Executive prevails in deliberations on international agreements. Beyond the fact that the Legislature has only the prerogative of presenting objections to these bills, the Executive must control the time that deliberation on international acts is able to take within permanent commissions and, in most cases, the nomination of relaters. In short, even more than within domestic politics, the precepts of the Federal Constitution and the control mechanisms for the agenda that is available to Executive power place significant restrictions on operating fields in deliberations on international agreements, primarily with regard to "legislative control". The efficacy of control mechanisms of the "political" type, such as requests for information, remain circumscribed by the potential constraints of the electoral order.
international acts; legislative processes; Executive power; Legislative power; parliamentary control
