On Monday night, the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed as of public interest and national security the execution of priority projects and works headed by its administration. With this action, the federal executive will be able to shield the information related to its development, in addition to allowing the issuance of provisional permits or licenses, in less than five days, to start its construction soon.
In the evening edition of Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), the Federal Executive published the agreement that “declares of public interest and national security the carrying out of projects and works in charge of the Government of Mexico” which instructs the agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration to carry out the actions indicated, in relation to the projects and works of the Government of Mexico considered of public interest and national security, as well as priority and strategic for national development.
It should be noted that according to article 3 of the Federal Law of Transparency and Access to Public Information, all the information generated, obtained, acquired, transformed or in the possession of the obligated subjects in the federal sphere, is public, accessible to anyone and may only be classified exceptionally as temporarily reserved for reasons of public interest and national security or well, as confidential.
Meanwhile, article 110 of this same rule adds that the reserved information may include that which compromises the National security, public security or national defense and has a genuine purpose and demonstrable effect.
The works related to this decree are associated with infrastructure of the sectors communications, telecommunications, customs, frontier, hydraulic, hydric, environment, tourist, Health, railways, railways in all its modalities energetic, ports, airports and those that, due to their purpose, characteristics, nature, complexity and magnitude, are considered priority or strategic for national development.
Therefore, projects such as Felipe Angeles International Airport; the Maya Trend and the refinery Olmeca, in Tabasco, among others, could be beneficiaries of this decree.
Likewise, the government of the president Lopez Obrador ordered the whole Federal Public Administration to grant the provisional authorization, permits or licenses necessary to start the projects, “and thereby guarantee their timely execution, the expected social benefit and the exercise of the authorized budgets.”
It was established that the provisional permits will be issued within a maximum period of five business days from the presentation of the application and in the event that an express provisional authorization is not issued within said period, it will be considered resolved in a positive sense.
Likewise, the provisional authorization will be valid for twelve months, a period in which the definitive authorization must be obtained.
Among his arguments, the Mexican president asserted that Mexico requires infrastructure to promote its development in an inclusive way and bring opportunities to the most lagging regions in the communications, telecommunications, customs, border, hydraulic, water, environment, tourism, health, railways, railways in all its modalities, energy, ports, airports, and other priority and strategic sectors that contribute to the growth and national security of the country.
For this reason, regional infrastructure, socioeconomic development and tourism projects are important to increase the economic benefit of tourism, create jobs, promote sustainable development and protect the environment.
In addition, the president considered that “the development and growth of the infrastructure in charge of the agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration, and that they translate into a collective benefit of all Mexicans, and that in order for the current administration to continue with the path aimed at promoting and consolidating the projects that will lead us as a Nation to achieve economic growth and, with it, achieve the social welfare ”.
Said decree was also signed by the heads of at least 17 federal agencies; including the Secretary of the National defense, General Luis Cresencio Sandoval González; the Secretary of Public Safety and Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez; the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Rogelio Eduardo Ramírez de la O; the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, María Luisa Albores González.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx