agencia nacional de aviaçăo civil (anac) is an organization formed in 2005 that substituted the former civil aviation department as the new authority and regulator of arial transportation in brazil - the former department was integral to the administrative structuring of the state aeronautics department until 1999. anac is linked to the presidential secretary of aviation, though it has its own special role, including administrative and financial autonomy, as well as an absence of hierarchy within the organization - the regulation performed by anac falls into two general categories known as economic regulation and technical regulation.
