International Activities of Brazil's Federal Attorney General's Office

As a still relatively new legal institution in Brazil, inserted by the National Constituent Assembly in Chapter IV of the 1988 Federal Constitution (On the Functions Essential to Justice), alongside the Federal Prosecutor General's Office (Procuradoria-Geral da República – PGR) and the Federal Public Defender's Office (Defensoria Pública da União - DPU), the mission of the Federal Attorney General's Office (Advocacia-Geral da União - AGU) is to represent the national government (the Union), both judicially and extrajudicially, i.e. all the bodies of the federal public administration, including those in the legislative and judicial spheres, as well as the other institutions essential to justice. It must also provide legal advice (general counseling functions), but in this latter case, this is limited to the bodies of the federal executive branch.[1]