Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Doutorado Profissional em Políticas Públicas da Escola Nacional de Administração Pública.

1. Introduction - outcomes from the OECD Reports on Regulatory Reform and the opportunity to foster private regulation. - 2. Private regulation - a cooperative concept. - 2.1 Individual self-regulation instruments. - 2.2 Market self-regulation instruments. - 2.3 Cooperative private regulation. - 2.4 Enforcement of private regulation instruments. - 3. Economic regulation versus technical regulation - a fundamental distinction in regulatory discussions. - 3.1 Regulatory focus. - 3.2 Regulatory objectives. - 3.3 Regulatees´interests. - 3.4 Public awareness. - 3.5 Technical knowledge. - 4. Private regulation implementation strategies - general considerations and directives. - 4.1 Private rules and standards monitoring. - 4.2 Endorsement of rules or standards. - 4.3 Cooperative rulemaking. - 4.4 Approval of compliance provess. - 4.5 Compliance post-audit. - 4.6 Cooperative find-compliance. - 4.7 Continuous performance evaluation and performance-based enforcement strategies. - 4.8 The processs for PRI consideration. - 5. Proof of concept - cases of private regulation. - 5.1 The case of advertising self-regulation. - 5.2 The case of small aircraft airworthiness standards (technical regulation) - 5.3 Private regulation instruments in Brazil. - 5.4 The references to private regulation instruments by the OECD. - 6. Conclusion - regulatory reform using private regulation. - 6.1 Remarks for practitioners.