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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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Mexican firm Von Wobeser y Sierra S.C. has helped Norwegian energy company Borr Drilling’s local subsidiary win two contracts from government-owned Pemex worth US$350 million.

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Grupo Modelo, owned by the Belgian company Anheuser-Busch InBev, made an investment of USD 726 million in the new plant located in Apan, state of Hidalgo (Mexico). In the transaction, on March  4th, Von Wobeser y Sierra, S.C. advised Anheuser-Busch InBev on corporate, tax, competition and antitrust matters and administrative aspects, as well as on environmental regulatory compliance under Mexican law. The lawyers were also involved in labor and real estate matters of the new plant and it was the only firm that participated in the transaction, for which it gave advice since the announcement of the project in November 2017.

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