Brazil's Secretariat for Economic Monitoring (SEAE), which is part of the government's Ministry of Finance, has a somewhat unusual responsibility in Brazil's three-agency competition policy system. It carries out no work on cartels or abuse of dominance, but instead spends most of its time doing complex economic analysis on merger cases in partnership with the Secretariat of Economic Law (SDE), which is part of the Ministry of Justice. Meanwhile, a third of SEAE's staff have advocacy roles, which largely means persuading the government to adopt more competition-friendly policies.