BUDGET

Law 27561

Provisions.


Chapter I

Budget of expenditure and resources of the national administration

Article 1 - Modify the budget of the national administration in force for the year 2020 in accordance with the detail of tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 annexes to this article.

Article 2o- The Chief of Cabinet of Ministers, through administrative decision, shall distribute the provisions of this law at the level of the limits set out in administrative decision 12 of 10 January 2019, in accordance with article 2 of administrative decision 1 of 10 January 2020.

Chapter II

Standards on expenditure

Article 3o- Incorporate in the tables annexed to article 11 of Law 27,467, of the general budget of the national administration for the year 2019, pursuant to article 27 of the Financial Administration and National Public Sector Control Systems Act, 24,156, and its amendments, in the terms of Decree 4 of 2 January 2020, the hiring of the works with an impact in future years, according to the detail in the annexed tables.

It should also be noted that transfers to each of the National Universities of budgetary credits in this Act shall be carried out in accordance with the proportion of the total that, for each, arises from the grid annexed to article 12 of Law 27,467.

Article 4o- For the year 2020, a total allocation of pesos seven billion ($ 7,100,000.000) in favor of the province of La Rioja and of pesos three hundred forty million ($ 340,000) in favor of the municipalities of the province mentioned. Of this last amount the sum of pesos a hundred and seventy million ($ 170,000.000) will be allocated to the city of La Rioja and the remaining amount will be distributed among the rest of the municipalities of the province according to the following criterion:

(a) Sixty per cent (60 per cent) according to the unmet basic needs index;

(b) Forty per cent (40 per cent) according to the population.

Créase the COVID Fund for the Compensation of the Public Transport of passengers by urban and suburban automotive of the interior of the country and the sum of ten thousand five hundred million pesos ($ 10.500.000.000.000), which will be transferred to the provinces and municipalities according to the distribution criteria established by the Ministry of Transport of the Nation in the regulation of the same, consequently to assume the provinces the integration of a part of the compensation established in the present system

Authorize the Chief of Cabinet of Ministers to make available the actions and make the necessary budgetary modifications to attend to the Intercosecha Programme, within the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security, established by resolution 858 of the year 2014 and its supplements, resolutions S.E.-1.726/15 and 143/20, aimed at economic assistance in the seasonal recess of temporary workers in the agricultural and agro-industrial sector, for a period of such employment (3)

In addition, empower the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers to arrange the actions and make the necessary budgetary extensions and modifications to meet the requirements of the Plan Director de Desagües Cloacales de General Roca, Río Negro province, in accordance with the requirements for its implementation determined by the authorities in accordance with Law 24,354, amendments and supplements; and the extensions necessary to attend to infrastructure, improvements and operational continuity of the

Please inform the Chief of Cabinet of Ministers at the time of distributing the provisions set out in this Act by administrative decision and within the limitations set out in article 37 of Law 24,156 and amendments, the necessary budgetary extensions and restructurings to incorporate the amounts set out in the preceding paragraphs and to include the allocations of the table annexed to this Article.

In addition, the multi-year recruitment of these works is authorized in future periods, in accordance with article 15 of Act No. 24.156.

Chapter III

Resource standards

Article 5o- Dispose the income as a contribution to the National Treasury of the sum of pesos eighty-three million three hundred twenty-four thousand two hundred seventy ($ 83,324,270) according to the detail indicated in the table annexed to this article.

Chapter IV

Cancellation of debts of forecast origin

Article 6: Increase in the sum of six billion pesos ($ 60,000.000.000) the limit set out in Article 31 of Law 27,467, of the general budget of the national administration for the year 2019, extended in the terms of Decree 4 of January 2, 2020, for the payment of previsional debts recognized in judicial and administrative headquarters and those previsional debts established in the framework agreements

Chapter V

Public credit operations

Article 7o- Please note that during the year 2020 future subscriptions of public securities denominated in US dollars to be issued under the law of the Argentine Republic for up to the maximum amount of nominal US dollars a thousand five hundred million (V.N. u$s 1.500.000.000) can be made with public debt instruments called in pesos determined by the coordinating body of financial administration systems. Such instruments shall be taken to the technical value calculated at the date of liquidation of each of the placements carried out in the framework of the rules of procedures approved by joint resolution 9 of 24 January 2019 of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Finance, both of the former Ministry of Finance and its amendments, and as determined by both secretariats. Such operations shall not be met by the provisions of article 65 of Act No. 24,156, on financial administration and on national public sector control systems and their modifications.

Article 8o- Please provide that future subscriptions of public titles called in pesos can be made with public debt instruments called in the same currency. Such instruments shall be taken to the technical value calculated at the date of liquidation of each of the placements carried out in the framework of the rules of procedures approved by joint resolution 9 of 24 January 2019 of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Finance, both of the former Ministry of Finance and its amendments and as determined by both secretariats. Such operations shall not be met by the provisions of article 65 of the Financial Administration and the National Public Sector Control Systems and their amendments.

Article 9o- Provide a transfer in favor of the National Institute of Social Services for Retired and Pensioned (INSSJP), operating in the field of the Ministry of Health, for an amount of weights eleven thousand and eight million ($ 11,088,000.000), which will be implemented through the delivery of the 8th series Consolidation Bonuses to its technical value of the date of placement, for the purposes of the supplement to be paid

Authorize the Ministry of Economy, through the coordinating body of the financial management systems of the national public sector, to place 8th-Series Consolidation Bonuses to the amount necessary to give effect to the transfer provided in the preceding paragraph.

Please refer to the Ministry of Economy, through the coordinating body of the financial administration systems of the national public sector, and the National Institute of Social Services for Jubilee and Pensionee (INSSJP), in the framework of their respective competences, to carry out all necessary acts aimed at the implementation of this article, as well as to dictate all complementary and implementing regulations.

Article 10.- In accordance with article 27 of the Financial Administration and National Public Sector Control Systems Act No. 27,467, and its amendments, in the terms of decree 4 of 2 January 2020, and replaced by decree 457 of 10 May 2020, the following authorization shall be incorporated into the annex to article 40 of the Act No. 27,467 of the general budget of the national administration for the year 2019.

Jurisdiction – Entity Type of debt Authorized amount (or its equivalent in other currencies) Minimal time of amortization Destiny of financing
Central Administration – Water Basic Works Programme – Ministry of Public Works Loan $149,600,000 3 years Potable AySA – Phase III – Subterranean river south section II

CHAPTER VI

Relations with provinces

Article 11. Continue the Provincial Financial Emergency Programme created by Decree 352 of 8 April 2020 to address the normal functioning of provincial finances, covering the requirements of sensitive sectors such as health, education and transport, among others, affected especially by the health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, assigning up to the additional sum of pesos 50 billion ($ 50,000.000.000).

Please inform the Ministry of Economy of establishing the conditions of the loans, which will be channelled through the Trust Fund for Provincial Development.

Also authorize the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers to make available the actions and make the necessary budgetary modifications to serve and give principle of compliance to firm judicial convictions in favor of the province of San Luis, according to judgments issued by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation in the cars: “San Luis, province of c/ national state s/ declarative action of unconstitutionality and collection of pesos” - San dossier S.-191/09

Article 12.- Trust the Municipal Infrastructure Emergency Programme of the Province of Buenos Aires (PREIMBA), in the orbit of the Ministry of Public Works, to ensure the maintenance and construction of municipal infrastructure works in urban, suburban and/or rural areas.

The Ministry of the Interior will agree with the Government of the province of Buenos Aires and the municipalities the plan of works to be developed within the framework of the Programme established by the present, which will be carried out by the Ministry of Public Works.

Article 13.- The national executive branch, through the Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of the Interior, will issue the necessary regulations for the implementation and operation of the Municipal Infrastructure Emergency Programme of the Province of Buenos Aires (PREIMBA).

Article 14.- The sum of five billion pesos ($ 50,000.000) to the Municipal Infrastructure Emergency Programme of the Province of Buenos Aires (PREIMBA).

Authorize the Chief of Cabinet of Ministers to make the necessary actions and to make the necessary budgetary modifications to attend to it.

Article 15.- The funds will be transferred to the province, who will make the distribution of the resources of PREIMBA taking into account the fifty percent (50%) of the Unique Distribution Coefficient (CUD) established in provincial law 10.559 (t.o. according to decree 1.069/95 and its modifications) of the province of Buenos Aires and according to the fifty percent (50%) of the income index of the year 2019.

Chapter VII

Other provisions

Article 16.- The national state takes charge of the total debt by capital and interest generated by the avals of the National Treasury 2/2011 and 2/2012 issued in favor of Energy Argentina S.A. (ENARSA), currently Integration Energy Argentina S.A. (IEASA), acting in the field of the Energy Secretariat of the Ministry of Productive Development and endorsed in favor of the Banco de la Nación Argentina, actingante of the

Authorize the national executive branch to agree with the Banco de la Nación Argentina the conditions for payment of the said debt.

Article 17.- The intransferable letters of the National Treasury in United States dollars issued under Article 4 of Decree 346 of 5 April 2020, of direct placement to the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic, acting within the Ministry of Economics, must be registered in their accounting states at a technical value.

Article 18.- Acknowledging credits equivalent to three (3) times the average monthly invoice of the last year of transactions in the Electrical wholesaler market of the distributors who provide their service in a province or consignment power that has adhered to the tariff maintenance provided for in law 27,541, under conditions established by the implementing authority.

Article 19.- Credits recognized in the preceding article shall be applied only to the distributors of the public electricity distribution service that as at 31 October 2020 do not possess debt in the Electrical Majorist Market or have acceded to a refinancing plan with Cammesa, which shall not exceed sixty (60) monthly quotas with twelve (12) months of grace, a rate of interest on balance equal to fifty per cent (50%) of the current market-contained.

The interest rate referred to will be applied from 1 January 2019 for the determination of the debt that each distributor will commit to cancel through the payment plan in accordance with the preceding paragraph.

Article 20. Please provide the enforcement authority with the necessary acts for the implementation of the preceding articles.

Chapter VIII

of the Permanent Supplementary Law on Budget

Article 21.- Incorporate into law 11.672, permanent supplementary budget (t. or. 2014), article 17 of this law.

In addition, comply with Act No. 11,672, supplementary budget (t. 2014), as follows:

The companies Airlines Argentinas Sociedad Anónima y Austral Airlines - Skys of the South Sociedad Anónima and its controlled companies are governed by the rules and principles of private law, and in particular in terms of their nature, by the terms of chapter II, section V, of the law 19.550, without prejudice to the control that corresponds to the National Congress and the General Audit of the Nation in accordance with article 85 of the National Constitution, and chapters. The above-mentioned companies shall receive the same treatment as those provided for by law 26,741, for the purposes of the application of law 27,437 and its regulatory and complementary standards, and any other regime that replaces it in the future.

It also establishes the same criterion for public capital or state-owned corporations.


Article 22.- Please note in the tables summarize 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, the amounts of the amendment provided for in article 1 of this Act.


Article 23.- Please note in the tables summarize 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, 6A, 7A, 8A and 9A, annexed to this title, the amounts of the amendment provided for in article 1 of this law that correspond to the decentralized agencies.

Article 24. Please note in the tables summarize 1B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 7B and 9B, annexed to this title, the amounts of the amendment provided for in article 1 of the present law corresponding to social security institutions.


Article 25.- This law shall enter into force on the day after its publication in the Official Gazette of the Argentine Republic.

Article 26.- Contact the national executive branch.

IN THE SESSION OF THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS, IN GOOD AIRES, TO THE TRECE DAYS OF THE MONTH OF AUGUST OF THE YEAR DOS MIL VEINTE.


CLAUDIA LEDESMA ABDALA DE ZAMORA - SERGIO MASSA - Marcelo Jorge Fuentes - Eduardo Cergnul

NOTE: The Annex/s that integrate/n this(a) Law is published in the web edition of BORA -www.boletinoficial.gob.ar-


(Note Infoleg:The annexes referred to in this rule have been extracted from the Official Gazette web edition. These are available in the following link:Annexes)

(Note Infoleg: The bold texts were observed by theDecree No. 696/2020B.O. 25/08/2020)