Article 1461 of the Commercial Code: Indirect questioning of Competence-competence?
Under the principle of Competence-competence, the arbitral tribunal to which a dispute that was subject to an arbitration agreement is submitted, is empowered to decide on its own competence, so that prior to issuing an award on the merits, it must study the existence and validity of the arbitration agreement.
Possible reforms to the Pemex law
Last January 9, 2019, deputies of the Morena Parliamentary Group presented before the Permanent Commission of the Congress of the Union an initiative that amends, adds and repeals various provisions of the Law of Petróleos Mexicanos (the “Initiative”).
Elimination of universal compensation
On December 28, 2018, the Federal Revenue Law for Fiscal Year 2019 was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation.
The new Collaboration Agreement between the FIU and the Ministry of Public Administration
Within the framework of the actions being carried out by the executive branch to attack the problem of corruption in our country, on January 3 of this year, the Ministry of Public Administration and the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit signed a collaboration agreement to establish the bases […]
The serious legislative omission in the area of Justice Cotidiana
On September 15, 2017, the Decree amending and adding Articles 16, 17 and 73 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, in matters of Cotidian Justice, was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation. In essence, this constitutional reform consisted of: (i) to establish the obligation of the authorities to resolve the […]
REDECO (Registro de Despachos de Cobranza) and the reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on December 11, 2018.
The REDECO “Registry of Collection Firms” is a tool of the National Commission for the Protection and Defense of Users of Financial Services (“CONDUSEF”), which is a decentralized public agency with its own legal personality and assets, under the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, which is regulated by the Law for the Protection and […]
Publication of the preliminary draft of the Technical Criteria of the Federal Antitrust Commission for the handling of information derived from the legal advice provided to economic agents.
On December 11, 2018, an excerpt of the preliminary draft of the Technical Criteria of the Federal Economic Competition Commission for the handling of information derived from legal advice provided to economic agents (“Technical Criteria”) was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation.
Amendments to the General Corporations Law: Notices of transfer of shares and partnership interests.
On December 15, 2018, the decree published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on June 14 of the current year entered into force, by which various provisions were added to the General Law of Commercial Companies (“LGSM”), particularly in Articles 73 and 129 of such law, in order to comply with recommendation number twenty-four […]
Initiative to amend Articles 108 and 111 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States.
On December 4, 2007, the President of Mexico presented before the Senate of the Republic, through the Ministry of the Interior, a constitutional reform initiative to amend Articles 108 and 111 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (the “Constitution”) to modify the wording of the constitutional text in order to establish that […]
International Data Protection Convention
On September 28, 2018, the decree promulgating the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with respect to the Automated Processing of Personal Data, entered into between Mexico and France, was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation.