On June 4, 2019 a decree was published in the Official Federal Gazette by which several provisions were added to the Social Security Law, the Social Security and Services of State Workers Institute Law and the Federal Labor Law.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is popularly known as El Peje because of his Tabasco accent. The nickname comes from the pejelagarto, a gatorfish from his native Tabasco. Like its freshwater counterpart, it's hard to pinpoint what he is, so Latin Lawyer asked some of Mexico's best lawyers for help, including our partner Luis Burgueño.

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Following up on our prior news flash with respect to the labor reform bill approved by the Chamber of Deputies on April 16th of this year, allow us to inform you that the Senate of the Republic passed the version sent by said Chamber on April 29th and today the decree was published in the Official Federal Gazette amending various provisions of the Federal Labor Law, the Organizational Law of the Federal Judicial Branch, the Federal Law for the Public Defense, the National Workers Housing Fund Institute Law and the Social Security Law, in matters of labor justice, freedom of association and collective bargaining negotiations. 

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As we anticipated in our note published on January 25, 2019, on April 16, 2019 the General Provisions Regulating the Self-Regularization Programs (the “Provisions”) were published in the Official Federal Gazette. The purpose of these Provisions is to establish the form, terms and procedures for those bound by them and that have engaged in vulnerable activities according to the Federal Law for the Prevention and Identification of Operations with Resources of Unlawful Origin.

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On April 15 the “General ruling waiving the debts, fiscal fines, surcharges and ordinary enforcement expenditures of contributions and the granting of the administrative benefits that are indicated” (“Ruling”) was published in the Official Gazette of Mexico City.

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Mexico’s competition authority is investigating suspected anticompetitive practices in the corn flour market and our Partner, Fernando Carreño, expressed his opinion regarding the relevance of this investigation due to the importance of corn flour in Mexican gastronomy.

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The call to tender for the first centralized purchase of medicines and healing material for federal entities, for the second half of 2019, will be published in the Official Federal Gazette no later than May 7, 2019.

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The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (the “SHCP”) and the National Banking and Securities Commission (the “CNBV”), on March 11 and 19, 2019, in the scope of their jurisdictions, published in the Official Federal Gazette (the “DOF”) i. the General Provisions applicable to Sandboxes referred to in the Law Regulating Financial Technology Institutions; and ii. the General Provisions relative to companies authorized to operate Sandboxes referred to in the Law Regulating Financial Technology Institutions, respectively (jointly the “Provisions”); pursuant to the Law Regulating Financial Technology Institutions (the “Law”), published in the DOF on March 9, 2018.

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This past April 8, 2016, the Energy Regulatory Commission (“CRE”) issued the Network Code (Criteria for efficiency, quality, reliability, continuity, security and sustainability of the National Electrical System), which establishes the minimum technical requirements that all members of the electrical industry must meet so the National Electrical System (“SEN”) can reach the technical condition in which it operates without violating operative limits and with sufficient reserve margins to support any kind of contingency.

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