812 OF 2003

(June 26)

Official Journal No. 45,231 of 27 June 2003

PUBLIC POWER-LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

For which the 2003-2006 National Development Plan is approved, towards a Community State.

COLOMBIA CONGRESS

DECRETA:

ARTICLE 1o. NATIONAL AND SECTORAL OBJECTIVES OF STATE ACTION. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 >

1. Provide democratic security, ensure the viability of democracy and strengthen the legitimacy of the state. Security and protection will be provided to all Colombians without distinction of political color, religious creed, ideological conviction or socioeconomic status.

2. Promote sustainable economic growth and job creation under an environment of macroeconomic and price stability, ensuring the sustainability of public debt and adequate access to the Colombian economy in the markets financial and international goods and services.

3. Build social equity, improving income distribution and economic growth. It will seek the consolidation of a country of owners, which at the same time links the state in efficient social spending and in protecting the most vulnerable sectors of society.

4. Increase the transparency and efficiency of the State, through a redesign of the entities, a transversal reform of the fund and a progress in decentralization that will lead to greater and effective levels of territorial autonomy.

ARTICLE 2o. BUDGET MANAGEMENT INDICATORS. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The Government will design and implement a set of budget management indicators, through which the evaluation and control of the implementation of the National Development Plan, in its different objectives, programmes and mechanisms.

This evaluation will be carried out by the National Congress, which will designate three (3) members of each Chamber's Economic Commissions for the purpose.

ARTICLE 3o. GENERAL DIAGNOSIS OF THE ECONOMY AND ITS MAIN SECTORS AND SOCIAL GROUPS. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The objectives of the National Development Plan set out in the previous article will be designed, structured and implement from the following general projections of the economy over the next few years:

Main macroeconomic indicators 2002-2006

2002		2003	2004	2005	2006
Actual Growth (%)	1.6	2.0	3.3	3.7	3.9
end of period CPI (%)	6.9	5.5	4.5	3.5	3.0
Current Account Deficit (% of GDP)	-1.9	-1.2	-1.5	-1.6	-2.0
Fiscal Deficit (% of GDP)	-4.0	-2.5	-2.1	-2.0	-2.2
Debt/GDP ratio	50.0	51.5	52.1	51.7	51.4

Source: Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, DNP and Bank of the Republic.

ARTICLE 4. INCORPORATION OF THE DOCUMENT "TOWARDS A COMMUNITY STATE" TO THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2002-2006. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > Tengase as part i ntegral of the general part of this Development Plan the document annexed " Bases of the 2002-2006 National Development Plan. Towards a Community State ", prepared by the Presidency of the Republic and the National Planning Department, with the modifications approved in this law. The document contains the national and sectoral objectives of the medium-and long-term state action, the general diagnosis of the economy and its main sectors and social groups, the national and sectoral goals of state action to medium and long term, the general procedures and mechanisms for achieving them, the economic, social and environmental strategies and policies that will guide the government's action to achieve the aforementioned goals and goals, and the the forms, means and instruments for linking and harmonizing national planning with the sectoral, regional, departmental, municipal, district and indigenous territorial entities. In the event of differences of interpretation between the articulated and the bases of the Plan, the articulated will first. Likewise, the Sectoral Plan of the Judicial Branch will be incorporated into this law.

ARTICLE 5o. LINKING AND HARMONIZING NATIONAL PLANNING WITH TERRITORIAL PLANNING. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The linkage and harmonization of the National Development Plan with Territorial Investment will present the distribution, multiannual programmes and regions, as well as resources for specific programmes and the region of work. As a result, it materializes as follows:

Indicative Regionalization

overall total

Figures in millions of constant weights 2002

Investment Plan 2003-2006

Preliminary and indicative regionalization

Overall Total

Figures in millions of constant weights 2002

Regions
Sector		Atlantic Coast	West Center East	Orinocia
FIP	374.760.56	579,935.55	503.994.18	193.123.23
Government	12.520.56	23.185.65	16.636.08	14.675.42
Defense	9.232.90	5.459.88	12.640.56	463.86
Justice 37.216.74	95.735.66	68,420.53	1.058.94	432.19
Hacienda	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Agriculture	166.027.81	31.161.67	54.112.77	34.656.68
Social	12.759.138.06	19.731.570.81	15.115.373.16	3.080.857.37
Infrastructure	1.600.014.16	2.416.296.26	3.780.382.87	1.850.986.39
Control Bodies	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Environment	10.958.65	12.381.02	3.076.00	6.981.18
Regional Investments by Sectorizing	233.809.56	274.349.01	185.291.18	168.432.20
GENERAL TOTAL	15.203.679.00	23.170.0075.50	19.739.927.33	5.351.235.27
Regions
Amazon		Bogota	National	TOTAL
FIP	79.123.53	28.136.01	948.76	1.760.021.82
Government	8.082.78	5.309.55	914.290.26	994.700.30
Defense	2.783.15	6.330.77	3.225.614.00	3.262,525.12
Justice 37.216.74	15.062.94	497.987.12	715.914.12
Hacienda	0.00	0.00	4.378.357.14	4.378.357.14
Agriculture	7.693.37	5,512.84	636.886.05	936.051.19
Social	1.649.091.87	5.408.714.01	11.090.820.13	68.835.565.40
Infrastructure	74.689.86	702.016.34	19.782.665.27	30.207.051.14
Control Bodies	0.00	0.00	406.857.06	406.857.06
Environment	7.363.71	2.799.64	134.207.27	177.767.47
Regional investments by sectorizing	67.661.32	70.456.74	0.00	1,000,000.00
GENERAL TOTAL	1.896.921.77	6.244.338.83	41.06,633.06	112,674,810.77

Source: DNP-DIFP.

The above figures correspond to the expenditures that the Nation will make directly or indirectly in the different regions of the country.

ARTICLE 6o. REGIONAL INVESTMENT PROJECTS. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The resources set out in the "Regional Investments by Sectorizing" section of the table presented in the previous article will be distributed by departments as follows:

Distribution with Equity Criteria

Billions of Pesos 2002

Department	Value
Amazon	18,876
Antioch	59.888
Arauca	23.221
Atlantic	36,414
Bogota	70,457
Bolivar	35.413
Boyaca	30,400
Caldas	27,812
Caqueta	25,225
Casanare	21,748
Cauca	30,757
Caesar	27,594
Choco	25,495
Córdoba	32,725
Cundinamarca	36,889
Guainia	23,720
Guajira	26,139
Guaviare	27,378
Huila	26.256
Magdalena	29,911
Meta	25,897
Narino	33,627
Santander North	30,851
Putumayo	23,561
Quindio	22,760
Risaralda	25,917
San Andres and Providence	16.391
Santander	31,953
Sucre	29.221
Tolima	28,943
Cauca Valley	48.094
Vaupes	21,400
Vichada	25.068
TOTAL COLOMBIA	1,000,000

Taking into account the previous distribution of resources by departments, the Nation, directly or indirectly, will advance investment projects according to the following criteria:

1. Minimum seventy-five percent (75%) of resources on track, drinking water-basic sanitation and irrigation districts. The first two (2) shall be mandatory for inclusion.

2. Up to twenty-five percent (25%) of resources can be invested in other sectors according to regional priorities.

3. In no case will the prioritized sectors for a department be greater than four (4).

4. The definition of the specific projects will be the result of a process of concurrency of the national, departmental and Bogota governments and the National Congress, with the Participation of delegates of the Mayors, prior to the conduct of public consultations. Such a definition shall be made in accordance with this Law and shall be concretized prior to the presentation of the General Budget Law for the period 2004.

TITLE II.

PUBLIC INVESTMENT PLAN.

CHAPTER I.

PROJECTION OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES.

ARTICLE 7o. PROJECTION OF THE FINANCIAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC INVESTMENT PLAN 2002-2006. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The National Plan of Public Investments and Social Spending will have a value of one hundred and twelve billion six hundred and seventy-four thousand eight hundred and eleven million pesos ($112,674,811 million), at constant pesos in 2002, financed as follows:

SOURCES AND USES

DEVELOPMENT PLAN INVESTMENT

Millions of 2002 constants

			USES
Current Revenue	52.372.282	Government		73.965,566
Credit	21.593.284	Operation (SGP)		51.872.282
Own resources	19.066,654	Investment		22.093.284
Private sector participation	19.642,591	Public		9.428.903
		Decentralized		9.637,751
		Other investment		19,642,591
TOTAL	112.674,811	TOTAL		112.674,811

CHAPTER II.

DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN INVESTMENT PROGRAMS.

ARTICLE 8o. DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN INVESTMENT PROGRAMS. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The description of the main investment programs that the National Government expects to implement during the duration of the National Plan of Development 2002-2006, is as follows:

A. DEMOCRATIC SECURITY

in order to achieve the Democratic Security, the government proposes a strategy that includes the control of the territory and the defense of national sovereignty, the strengthening of public forces, the dismantling of the production of illicit drugs, the strengthening of justice and attention to the depressed and conflict areas. The implementation of this strategy will require huge fiscal resources and an active involvement of the international community.

1. Control of the territory and defense of national sovereignty

strategy of control of the territory and the defense of national sovereignty begins with the disarticulation of the networks of logistic support of the violent groups and their armed capacity. In parallel, controls will be intensified to the financial and security system to break up the finances of terrorist and drug trafficking groups.

priority will be given to strengthening and professionalizing the Public Force (Military Forces, National Police, and Intelligence Agencies). New contingents of professional soldiers and soldiers will be incorporated in support of the Military Forces, and mobile squadrons of carabineros to the Highway Police and to the Gaula corps throughout the country. A total of 160,000 soldiers, including farmers and professionals, and 100,000 police officers are expected to end the four-year term. The reactivation of 163 police stations in municipalities where they have been destroyed will also be sought. Likewise, the Nation's deterrent capacity will be consolidated in the face of possible external threats through the maintenance and modernization of the existing strategic material.

-Citizen cooperation will be a crucial element of the strategy. About 1 million citizens will be prepared to form the cooperative networks in the cities and in the countryside. Incentives to encourage citizen participation in the democratic security strategy will continue to be implemented.

-Special emphasis will be given to the protection of economic infrastructure. To this end, a strategy has been designed that contemplates the formation of a reliable information system, the conduct of offensive operations, and the support of the Judicial Police and external entities.

-The National Government will implement the Road Safety Program in order to guarantee the right to free movement of persons through the national territory, to encourage the commercial exchange between the regions, to reactivate tourism and permit the transportation of cargo and goods to and from the country's main ports. The operational part of the program will be brought forward by the Military Forces and the National Police, with the support of the networks of cooperating and informants.

-When the economic, social, and the number of the foot of force of the military estates, they merit it, the compulsory military service will be eliminated, without the implementation of the obligatory social and civil service.

2. Combating the problem of illicit drugs and organized crime

-The policy of combating the problem of illicit drugs and organized crime will be oriented towards the dismantling of the process of production, marketing and consumption of drugs. The "forcible and voluntary" eradication of illegal crops and the interdiction (air, sea, river, and land) of drug trafficking will be promoted, while the National Narcotics Directorate will be strengthened to address and resolve the problems. complaints to which forced eradication is taking place. Likewise, control over asset laundering will be strengthened, and improvements in the information system will be implemented in accordance with the principles of the Financial Action Task Force on Asset Laundering (FATF). It will continue with the strengthening of the figure of the action of extinction of dominion to transfer to the State close to 39,000 assets currently seized.

-The National Narcotics Council will guide the policy of prevention and treatment of drug use.

-Actions to reduce the illegal trade in arms, chemical inputs and drugs will be brought forward, through the strengthening of the operational capacity of the National Navy and the Colombian Air Force, in order to strengthen the missions of permanent surveillance, intelligence and recognition.

-Crop detection mechanisms will be continued, in order to identify, characterize and specialize crop-affected areas, based on satellite imagery and aerofotography.

-An information system will be implemented to identify and characterize assets and assets that are seized and made available to the State, to be quickly converted into a source of resources for the execution of different programmes or projects related both to combating the problem and its effects, as well as to other national development programmes. The goods seized from drug trafficking will also be used to care for drug addicts, in their clinical and therapeutic needs, with correlative social assistance: accommodation and maintenance until their full recovery.

-The Anti-Extortion And Kidnapping Program seeks to increase the commission's costs of these crimes, to dismantle the responsible organizations, and to regain the trust of the citizenry and the international community in the struggle of the state. on this front. To this end, information for decision-making processes will be improved, a Strategic Intelligence Analysis Group will be put into operation, a comprehensive system of reception of cases and families of abductees will be implemented. " A centralized strategy for tracking the payment of ransom and extortion will be implemented, and the operational doctrines will be analyzed in conjunction with the Armed Forces. Public, among other activities.

-Programs will be brought forward to address all forms of organized crime in the country, in the quest to strengthen democratic security.

[El Nacional] The National Government is obliged to bring forward strong actions at international level, with other countries and with the various multilateral organizations, in order to discuss and agree on joint solutions to the problem of the drug.

-In addition, it will bring forward programs to crack down on the prison population to mules, scrapes, addicts, and small farmers producing illicit crops.

-The National Government will define special development programs with a minimum duration of ten (10) years for the strengthening of the local legal economies of the regions depressed by illegal crops of public order.

3. Strengthening the justice service

-The justice service will be streamlined to facilitate citizens ' access to it. To this end, alternative and out-of-court dispute settlement mechanisms will be promoted. Likewise, criminal investigation will be strengthened with new tools such as impulse to orality and public defense.

-The administrative service of justice will be rationalized through a better articulation of the operators, better information systems, and the simplification and harmonization of the norms. This will strengthen the Casas de Justicia Program, the Centers for Information Reception, and review the regulation on reconciliation in law and reconciliation in equity.

-Criminal, penitentiary and prison policies will be reviewed and reoriented according to the priorities in the fight against crime. To this end, a census of the population will be carried out to carry out a better planning; likewise, the penalties for the crimes of greater social impact will be strengthened, the offer of quotas in detention centers will be reorganized, and the extension of the same through the use of contractual schemes that allow the participation of individuals in the design, construction and adequacy of the detention centers, as well as the provision of the necessary services for the operation and safety of the same, and those associated with treatments directed to the resocialization of the inmates; new programs will be sought for the inmates and a unified system of information will be shared with the entities that are part of the Criminal Justice System.

[passage omitted] [passage omitted] (AFP)-The programs for the re-alization of prisoners will be a state policy aimed at ensuring that the prisons are real centers of integral training for the inmate in psychological aspects such as family, educational, and labor. Special rehabilitation programs will be created with the participation of the Sena, universities, public establishments and private enterprise.

passage omitted] In the development of the Program of Renewal of Public Administration, a single policy of judicial defense of the nation will be brought forward. To this end, studies will be carried out to evaluate the origin of the judicial processes against the Nation, the common failures in the different processes and in their attention, as well as in the procedures for advancing repetition processes. Likewise, the necessary measures shall be taken to avoid bringing to the jurisdiction the conflicts that are generated between public bodies, which must be reconciled in a preferential manner.

-A policy aimed at providing legal certainty and consistency and simplification of the regulatory system will be formulated and implemented.

-The administrative reorganization of the Justice System will be expected.

4. Development in depressed and conflict zones

-For the marginalized areas, we seek to restore a local economic base from productive projects and income generation, particularly agricultural, forestry, agroforestry, and silvopastoriles. These projects will be concerted with the communities and take into account all phases of the chain, from production, to marketing and agro-industry, seeking to strengthen small producers within the chain.

-The Alternative Development Program, PDA, will be developed especially for the substitution of illicit crops in environmentally strategic zones, guaranteeing the resources for all stages of the process and that these will flow effectively and Agile, and simultaneously generating other alternatives for subsistence and income generation in the short term such as incentives for management and conservation and food security programs.

-Actions that seek to develop the physical and social infrastructure in these areas will also be advanced. In particular, the programme Colombia Profunda will be strengthened and road, airport and river projects that have been started or are in progress will be completed. Also, electric expansion programs will be developed in the non-interconnected areas, especially with small hydroelectric power plant projects, and/or new network construction, service normalization in non-interconnected areas. This is the case for interconnecting, Community telephony and information technology. It is expected to have 3,000 rural telephone points and 500 telecentres at the end of the four-year period.

-In the depressed and conflict zones, the Regional Development and Peace Programs (PDPs) will be supported, encouraging, among others, the process begun in the peace laboratory of the Eastern Antioquia, Cauca and Catatumbo. This work will seek to promote processes of broad social participation and institutional strengthening, under a comprehensive approach that articulates national sectoral policies in regions focused on the framework of the Network of Development Programs and Peace, through alliances between the state and civil society. The actions to be promoted will include economically profitable and environmentally sustainable projects through associative schemes and solidarity economy. Priority will be given in these programs to the municipalities that have been part of the demilitarized zone and to the departments most affected by the negative actions resulting from it and the breaking of the peace process.

-The actions advocated by the social reconstruction of the municipality of Bojaya and Vigia del Fuerte (Antioquia) and its area of influence will be brought forward.

5. Protection and promotion of human rights and international humanitarian law

-The prevention of human rights violations and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) will be based on the early warning system, which will consolidate information for the timely assessment of risk and anticipation of events against the community. At the same time, a pedagogical strategy for civil and military authorities, as well as for citizens, will be developed.

-Victims of forced displacement will receive comprehensive assistance in nutrition, shelter, and health (physical and psychosocial). Minors will have formal educational assistance in state institutions, and if they have been orphaned by the conflict, it will be the duty of the ICBF to provide all social, comprehensive and dignified assistance. The National Council of Attention to the Displaced Population will be activated regularly and the Single Registration System and the System of Estimate of the Magnitude of the Displacement will be consolidated, with the support of the Social Solidarity Network.

-The restoration of the displaced population will be promoted through the securitization of lands, housing subsidies, and the development of associative productive projects financed with micro-credits. A pilot program will be implemented in order to bring about 30 thousand peasant families back to their homes.

-The Government will strengthen the National Fund for Displacement Care created by Law 387 of 1997.

-The State will promote the strengthening of protection programs for human rights defenders, trade unionists, promoters of indigenous causes, and social and/or political activists who are being persecuted and threatened, as well as the witnesses, judges and interveners of the criminal proceedings.

-Measures of an integral social, economic, educational, inter alia, will be adopted, which will deter the entry of minors to illegal armed groups and encourage their disengagement from these groups, and their full reintegration into society.

-The Government will strengthen the Special Committee on Impuling to Investigations of Violation of Human Rights, thus guaranteeing the effectiveness of the principles, rights and duties enshrined in the Constitution, the Law and the International Treaties.

-The Human Rights Unit and DIH of the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Nation will be strengthened, attached to the National Directorate of Fiscalas.

-The National Government will develop and implement a National Plan of Action on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law.

-A model of monitoring, evaluation and monitoring of public policies that have an impact on human rights, both civil and political rights, and those that link rights, will be designed and implemented. economic, social and cultural, collective and the environment.

-The Government will approve and initiate the implementation of the National Plan of Action against Anti-Personnel Mines, which will contain the strategies, goals and actions for its destruction and for the integral care of the victims.

El Tiempo] In order to help achieve peace in the country, the good experiences of civil resistance in some capitals, such as Bogota with its Peace Territory program, will be used. In this sense, the National Day of Life and Human Dignity will be promoted.

-Develop and implement measures for the prevention and eradication of women's rights violations by the National Government. Respect for the integrity, freedom and human dignity of women, both on the part of the state and the actors of armed conflict.

-The anti-personnel mine observatory created by the 2002 Law 759 will be strengthened for humanitarian demining.

6. Strengthening coexistence and values

-The National Coexistence System will be adopted for institutional strengthening and the consolidation of a national culture of coexistence. The system will operate through consultation scenarios open to the direct participation of citizens, the public and private sectors and the international community. In this context, the chairs of coexistence and transparency will be encouraged by the participation of the citizen and community media in projects aimed at the peaceful resolution of conflicts and recognition and training. in fundamental values such as solidarity, honesty, transparency, justice, tolerance and respect for cultural diversity.

El Tiempo] For the purpose of building a new cultural democratic citizenship, four major policy guidelines aimed at improving coexistence and promoting the full development of creativity among Colombians will be implemented: place, initiatives will be brought forward with a view to the social appropriation of the cultural heritage, such as the revitalisation of the historical centres and the promotion and dissemination of the Colombian oral and intangible heritage. Second, the National Reading and Library Plan will be launched, the goal of which is to make Colombia a country of readers and to substantially improve the equitable access of Colombians to information and knowledge. To this end, approximately 500 public and private libraries will be strengthened, their endowment in the field of goods and services will be expanded, and campaigns to promote the book and the reading will be brought forward. Third, the National Plan of Music for Coexistence will focus especially on children and youth belonging to orchestras, choirs, bands and other groups in all corners of the country. Likewise, it will seek the endowment of 200 musical bands and the research, promotion and dissemination of the Colombian musical heritage.

-Establishment of effective Public Policies on Women's DDHH, which promote a culture of non-violence and respect for its multi-ethnic and multicultural diversity.

7. Foreign relations and international cooperation policy

The National Government will work on a positive insertion of Colombia into the international environment. In this sense, foreign policy will be harmonized with the priorities of domestic policy, seeking its proper understanding by the international community. The international promotion and the increase of exports will be the main objective of Colombian foreign policy, as well as those issues in which the international community has a preponderant role for its solution, such as the global drug problem and its related crimes, terrorism and corruption, environmental issues and human rights.

-In bilateral relations, political dialogue will be strengthened at all levels and economic and commercial interests will be promoted, seeking to encourage investment and to attract cooperation towards the National Government's priority programs. and territorial entities. In particular, the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean will strengthen the integral development of the border areas and will promote the strengthening and consolidation of the Andean Community. The United States will advance the use of the ATPDEA; the process of negotiating Colombia for the FTAA within a pluralistic and participatory framework that integrates regional needs with national interests; negotiation Bilateral free trade agreements; and the promotion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to the Colombian community. And with Europe we will work for an Association Agreement between the Andean Community and the European Union, which incorporates the preferences of the Generalized Andean Preferences System, and the dismantling of trade barriers for our exports.

-In the multilateral relations will participate in forums and mechanisms for dialogue and political and commercial cooperation, including NOAL, G-77 and China, G-15, Rio Group, G-3, to concretize actions on the government's priority issues. In the framework of the OAS, efforts will be directed to adapt the role of the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy to the purposes set out in the Inter-American Democratic Charter and the inter-American system of rights will continue to be strengthened. human and the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism in the fight against drugs.

-Colombian communities abroad will be the subject of a comprehensive policy by the National Government, which seeks to strengthen Colombian associations and their ties with the government, improve legal aid programs, and Social security and social security agreements, among others.

-A national system of international cooperation (technical, decentralized and dual-track) will be created to ensure broad dialogue between the National Government and the territorial entities, the cooperating sources and the implementing entities, articulating supply and demand with development priorities at different levels of government, and management control with public information systems or presentation of management reports to the Congress and citizens ' citizens. Likewise, the Coordination Table for International Cooperation will be developed in Colombia to promote initiatives in alternative development (including the substitution of illegal crops for forestry and productive projects linked to the productive chains and an investment subsidy) emergency humanitarian aid, hospital management, environmental, microenterprise, rural and cultural development.

-Diplomatic management will be strengthened through institutional adjustments with a view to deepening the process of professionalization and modernization of the foreign service, and the Diplomatic Academy will be boosted. Likewise, our embassies and consulates will become agents of international cooperation and promoters of Colombian exports. The Congress of the Republic shall exercise political control in respect of the trade promotion and management carried out by diplomatic and consular officials. It will also ensure the adoption of an inter-institutional committee on commercial matters in the external service. Given the need to coordinate this policy with the country's intersectoral needs to regularly monitor the commercial management of Diplomatic and Consular Missions.

El Tiempo] The National Government will bring forward special programs with those countries where undocumented Colombians reside, in order to improve their labor, economic and social situation. The diplomatic representations will provide the undocumented with the necessary advice and assistance so that they can legalize their stay or return to the country. To this end, they shall facilitate the delivery of the relevant documents such as citizenship, judicial certificate, and passports.

B. SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION

1. Drive to housing and construction

The drive to housing will focus on three main strategies by population groups:

-For lower income groups, coverage of Family Housing Allowances (SFV) will be expanded. In total, 400 thousand new units of Housing of Social Interest (VIS) will be financed, of which 340,000 units will correspond to new housing programs and comprehensive improvement.

-Alternative financing policies for housing of social interest will be developed, oriented towards the diversification of instruments and mechanisms that consult the dynamics of the informal economy.

-For middle stratum households, the credit inflation protection mechanism in UVR, created at the beginning of 2003, will be developed, which eliminates uncertainty during the repayment term of mortgage debts up to 130%. minimum wages, provided that the value of the house does not exceed 323 minimum wages.

-For high stratum households, continuity will be given to the tax benefit of the Building Development Savings (AFC) accounts.

-Additionally, adjustments will be made to the housing finance system through measures to clean up the unproductive portfolio. To this end, the government will support the issuance of securities and mortgage bonds to finance the housing portfolio in the amount of approximately $6 billion during 2003 and 2004.

-The real estate microcredit will be boosted with the purpose of providing low income households with an adequate option to finance the acquisition, construction and improvement of housing.

-Housing policy will contribute to the economic growth of the country and to the generation of employment under business criteria with social responsibility to address the growing quantitative and qualitative deficits efficiently.

-Mixed association schemes for research and development in technologies to increase productivity and improve the quality of housing of social interest will be promoted and promoted in order to increase the conditions of access to the housing, a reasonable use of resources, recognizing the country's urban-regional singularities.

-Housing policy is included in the construction of social equity, in order to guarantee transparency in the distribution of resources oriented to the population and the regions in poverty.

-Housing developments will be framed in urban-regional development policies in coordination with the territorial authorities, in this sense, the National Government will facilitate and stimulate the integration of government resources and cooperate with the development of planning and management tools.

-The National Government will work for the quality of urban life by ensuring the integration of housing with the structural elements of public space and local public services. In the same way, it will promote the diversification of expansion actions with emphasis on intermediate cities, urban renewal, consolidation and comprehensive improvement, as well as population resettlement in environmental risk areas. not mitigated and by process of urban renewal.

-The National Government will exercise the coordination of the housing system in conjunction with the territorial authorities and promote the housing information systems as a support for the participation of all development agents.

-A model of urban-regional development will be defined as a general framework for the implementation of housing and construction policy.

2. Boost to exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons and mining

-The government will promote domestic and foreign private investment in exploration and drilling activities to incorporate nearly 1 billion barrels of oil in reserves during the 2002-2006 period. To achieve this goal, 10,000 kilometers of seismic exploration will be developed, approximately 150 wells will be explored, and 20 partnership contracts will be signed on average each year.

-New contractual arrangements for hydrocarbons will be considered, and incremental production contracts will be given greater importance and speed. We will seek the rationalization and streamlining of the environmental licensing process for hydrocarbon exploration activity. All of this with strict compliance with applicable rules on the matter.

-The implementation of the Cartagena Master Plan will be advanced with the largest possible private participation and partial financing from the disposal of non-strategic investments by Ecopetrol. It will continue with the program of optimization of the refinery of Barrancabermeja, in order to achieve international standards of efficiency and to have as goal to reach the second quartile in the indicators Solomon of Refining for the year 2005.

-On gas exports will be promoted, taking advantage of the geographical advantage and availability of reserves in the country. The exploration of new reserves will be encouraged.

-The dismantling of gasoline and ACPM subsidies will be offset by the boost to mass transit systems, while at the same time a general price system that recognizes the reality of prices will be adopted at national level.

-In the mining sector, an information system will be implemented and the decentralization of the sector will be boosted. It will formalise and increase productivity in the sector with support for the development of a productive chain.

-In the same way, Ecopetrol will develop its hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation policy.

3. Boosting strategic infrastructure in transport

-Priority will be invested in infrastructure that generates conditions of peace and democratic coexistence, that supports social development, job creation, and allows for greater security conditions.

-The government will implement strategies such as strengthening and institutional reorganization of the sector's entities to increase capacity for monitoring, control and surveillance of projects, especially in the case of concessions. Emphasis will be placed on strengthening private participation schemes, facilitating or financing them through the capital market and promoting security programs in the transport infrastructure. The modal interconnection will also be promoted to integrate the road network at regional, national and international level.

-New investments in the tertiary network will be made by public procurement and through community participation, in such a way that employment generation is encouraged. For projects financed with public resources, those from the surcharge on gasoline will be allocated at least 50% to the construction, maintenance and conservation of the urban, secondary and tertiary routes, in accordance with the competence of the respective territorial entity, without prejudice to the commitments acquired Continuity will be given to the promotion of basic infrastructure with resources from the Colombia Profunda program.

-In the case of urban conglomerates, in which there is a technical feasibility of massive transport projects (Bogota, Cali, Pereira-Dosquebradas, Barranquilla-Soledad, Cartagena, Bucaramanga, TransMilenio extension to Soacha and Valle de la The National Government will be able to participate in its development, provided that, in the case of the metropolitan areas by that entity, in association with the respective municipalities, the National Government will be able to participate in its development. the fiscal space, both in the municipalities, and if it is the case in the respective area metropolitan, as in the Nation. The linking of private capital in the structuring and financing of these projects will be promoted, in accordance with a fiscal model that involves the control of a sustainable public policy on the operation and administration of the mass transportation, which ensures a fair handling of the costs to the user and the quality of the service. Mechanisms will be promoted to allow the participation of small and medium-sized transporters in these projects. Tariffs should be regulated to prevent abuses of dominant positions and monopolies.

-Support of the Nation to the construction of the ALO through the concession system for the exit of the south of Bogota.

-For the purpose of improving the urban public service, the National Government will transfer to the cities the powers to administer and regulate it, and will promote the formation of efficient transport companies.

-The recovery of the navigability of the Magdalena River and some other rivers such as the Atrato, the Sanjuan, the Meta, the Guaviare River, Cauca and Caqueta, among others, as well as the modernization, expansion and maintenance of the infrastructure will continue. railway, and resources will be invested for the achievement of the internationally accepted airport standards, for the airports that make up the national airport network.

-Territorial entities, and in the respective case the metropolitan areas may use the resources for infrastructure in any kind of project of this nature in their jurisdiction.

-The rehabilitation of the railway infrastructure will support the development of the fuel alcohol policy.

-The National Government will advance before the end of the development plan the feasibility and feasibility studies to concession a new railway line connecting the mines of Cerromatoso and the city of Monteria with the Santa Marta railway line to Bogota.

[El Nacional] The National Government will push for the construction of the alternative railway to the port of Santa Marta. To do this, you can incorporate an "otrosi" to the contract of concession of the railroad so that it is constructed with resources that the concessionaire must turn to the Nation.

-The government will invest primarily in the maintenance, improvement, rehabilitation, paving and construction of roads to ensure the integration of the regions and to strengthen the country's sustainable development.

-The Government will study the reconstruction of the Air Cable between the municipal capitals of Mariquita and Manizales for the purpose of strengthening the Tourist Closter in this area of the country.

4. Home public services

-The promotion of the participation of the private sector, workers and the solidarity sector in the public services sector will continue and programs will be developed to encourage the participation of the users in the capital of the companies through social capitalization funds.

-The consolidation of regulatory frameworks and the development of privatization and concession processes in the construction, operation and maintenance of infrastructure will be boosted.

-In electrical energy, it will be proposed to maintain the energy supply and will strengthen the market. Measures will be put in place to reduce the crisis in the distributor and marketer sector. These measures include the programme for the standardisation of networks in sub-normal neighbourhoods, together with the strengthening of the regulatory framework.

-Institutional schemes will be formed to ensure the viability of the service in the non-interconnected areas through the use of renewable and alternative energy, among other sources. Regional energy integration for electricity and natural gas, and LPG, where this is possible and/or the construction of small house gas plants, will be promoted in the capital cities of the non-interconnected departments. A sectoral policy will also be defined to provide a solution for firms in crisis with a view to ensuring service and minimising tax contingencies.

-In terms of the generation activity, the conditions of competition will be strengthened by seeking the formation of a new state generating agent and the integration of the electricity transmission networks with Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador for trade in energy.

-Long-term conditions for the entry of investors in the development of the National Transmission System will be promoted.

-In terms of telecommunications in low-income rural and urban areas, the use of information technologies will be sought and the development of competitive communications markets will be promoted. To this end, the Government will strengthen and develop community programs within the policies of access and universal service, continue the development of the programs of the Connectivity Agenda coordinated by the Ministry of Communications and strengthen the regulatory and institutional framework of the sector.

-The national public television network will be recovered and work on the institutional restructuring of the public radio and television sector.

-In terms of drinking water and basic sanitation, measures will be established to increase the efficiency and quality of the service, the tariff and subsidy scheme will be adjusted to encourage investment, the recovery of costs, avoid the transfer of inefficiencies to users and generate incentives for investment in regional schemes.

-The good use of local resources will be encouraged and support will be given to the development of the comprehensive management plans and final disposal of solid waste and the mass of aqueducts and culverts.

-In order to improve the provision of public services and maintain the equity of the economic system, any payment corresponding to the variable charge in the energy, aqueduct, garbage collection and telephone service will be made exclusively based on the user's consumption, provided that it is technically measurable in this way. In the case of telephony, any of the methods of assessment recommended by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an international agency of which the State is part of the Law, will be used href="ley_0252_1995.html#1"> 252 from 1995.

-Mobile phone consumption charges will be charged to each other, by time units of seconds or by the minute or fraction of a minute system.

5. Science, technology and innovation

-In the area of research promotion projects will be carried out in all national programmes using the existing funding modalities, national research programmes will be strengthened, their joint and articulate action on complex and priority topics for the country and will continue with support for the consolidation of the scientific community in associative forms such as scientific research centres, groups and centres of technological development, scientific and technological research networks and technical cooperation

-The articulation, coherence and efficiency of the National System of Science and Technology will be ensured.

-The conditions will be created for public and private investment in science, technology and innovation activities to increase gradually and sustainably to reach 0.6% of GDP in 2006.

-Colciencias and the National Learning Service (Sena), will promote and promote applied research and technological development to improve the competitiveness of the productive sectors. The National Government will adapt the academic programs of the Sena to achieve this goal.

-It will seek to diversify and expand financial incentives for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises through credit and guarantee schemes for innovation and technological development projects.

-The projects or theses presented in higher education institutions, which contain contributions to the social, economic, technological and cultural development of the Nation, will be able to receive support through the mechanisms offered by the institutions that promote scientific and technological research.

-Studies, research and academic work that will develop proposals for solutions to problems faced by population sectors, such as older adults, women, children, youth, indigenous people, will be promoted and promoted. disabled, ethnic and displaced among others.

-The coverage of the Young Researchers Program will be expanded and the program to support the training of Doctors abroad will be continued. National doctoral programs with resources from Colciencias, Icfes, Sena and Icetex-Project: access with quality to higher education will be strengthened.

-In higher education, it is expected to retain and incorporate nearly 400,000 students through various mechanisms: The implementation of a program, financed with World Bank resources for US$ 200 million and national counterpart resources $87.7 million, administered by the Icetex and through which new financing schemes are created for students with lower incomes (100 thousand quotas in 5 years), modernization and improvement of the management of public entities (retain 80 thousand students and generate 70 thousand new quotas) and the promotion of technical and technological education (150 thousand new quotas).

6. Competitiveness and development

-The government's competitiveness policy will have seven fundamental axes: the elimination of formalities and transaction costs, the strengthening of the role of coordination of the State, the creation of a balanced system of property rights intellectual, the generalization of access to information technologies within the framework of the Connectivity Agenda, the development of comprehensive biotechnology policies, and the protection and development of markets.

-In this way, we seek to reduce transaction costs and achieve greater transparency in the procedures, procedures and processes of public administration; to coordinate private sector initiatives and academia for business development and in In particular for the design of the business development plan, the strengthening of the Network Colombia competes and support for the movement for productivity; to promote a policy of Intellectual Property Rights with industrial policies, commercial and social of the country; to promote a national policy of regulation for the use, capture and dissemination of information by public entities and a policy of regulation in the acquisition of computer technologies by the State; giving special emphasis to the sectoral tourism plan and a comprehensive biotechnology policy; and promote policies to promote competition, regulation and consumer rights in harmony with the development of the productive sector that offers a balance between producers and consumers.

-Regional scale will be worked on in the identification and development of clusters in ecotourism, culture, agrotourism and rural tourism, ethnotourism, recreational tourism, business, congresses and conventions, among others.

-In the field of tourism, policies will be focused on the guidelines of the sectoral plan, with emphasis on aspects such as increase in road safety; boost to the Mysmes (95% of companies in the sector); incentives for urban renewal with tourism potential, including historical centres, cultural heritage and hotel construction and refurbishment.

-Trade competitiveness and the export potential of regions and departments will be boosted through the joint action of various government institutions, which will raise policies and provide advice in the process of citizen participation.

-In order to improve the competitiveness of public entities, they will adopt systems of total quality and administrative efficiency, seeking as far as possible the certification of ISO quality.

-In order to strengthen the development of the policy of generation of employment and in accordance with the policies of competitiveness and development in the field of tourism, the tourist districts and other territorial entities that have vocation Tourism, which will necessarily include in its development plan and tourism sector plan the investment necessary for the construction and optimization of the infrastructure of urban accommodation, green areas and urban roads of the tourist areas priority, a requirement without which they will not be able to access resources for the tourism sector to determine the NDP.

7. Commercial policy

-The implementation of the Strategic Plan Exporter 1999-2009 will continue as a long-term international insertion strategy involving the private sector, the public sector and the academy. New strategies for the diversification of the target markets for Colombian exports will be included within the Strategic Plan.

-The Free Trade Agreement for the Americas (FTAA) will be sought to be balanced, remove unnecessary barriers to international trade in goods and services, allow for an opening in public procurement markets, and have a greater discipline in the internal aid for agricultural products, for which spaces and instances of citizen participation will be implemented, that will allow to know the needs of the different social sectors affected and involved, in the national territory.

-It will be sought that the negotiations taking place within the World Trade Organization (WTO) are aimed at achieving a reform of the world trade in agricultural products and the elimination of the tariff and tariff peaks, among others.

-Efforts will be made to consolidate a free trade agreement with the United States and other nations. In this regard, negotiations will be brought forward for the formation of a free trade zone between the Andean Community and the countries of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), or a negotiation with some countries of these two blocs where there is consensus. Colombia will deepen agreements with Central America and the Caribbean, Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and the European Union to ensure a greater presence in these regions.

-The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism will actively participate in the dissemination and training of new tariff benefits and the identification of products and potential buyers derived from the Law of Preferences Andean Tariff (ATPA).

-The processes of promoting agricultural exports will continue, providing reasonable protection for agricultural production and strengthening market intelligence within the framework of the World Trade Organization.

-In order to facilitate and promote an international common language within the framework of the customs provisions, the modifications introduced by the National Government to the Customs Regime shall be made subject to the recommendations, practices and guidelines suggested or set out in the Kyoto International Convention for the simplification and harmonisation of customs procedures.

-The Ministry of Trade Industry and Tourism with support from the DNP will supervise and evaluate the management of the Carces at the national level. The Ministry will develop the evaluation and subsequent reorientation mechanisms.

8. Environmental sustainability

In order to maintain the natural base as a factor for the development of the country, to increase the production and supply of environmentally sound goods and services and the sustainability of national production, and to have a National Environmental System strengthened, the following programs will be advanced:

-Conservation and sustainable use of environmental goods and services. Includes the consolidation of the Protected Area System; the management of populations of threatened and potential wild species; the promotion of biotechnological developments based on the components of biodiversity and management in the field of biosafety; and the conservation, management, use and restoration of ecosystems of forests and other ecosystems. In particular, the redelimitation and management of forest reserves, the implementation of plans for the management of natural forests, and the development of environmental policies of wetlands, moors and seas and coasts will be brought forward. The National Government will study the possibility of declaring the Serranía del Perija as one of the new Protected Areas covered by this Plan.

-A state policy will be formulated for the Colombian Amazon, which will be translated into the Amazon Sustainable Development Plan, which will collect the processes of construction of Agenda XXI, Colombian Amazon, that will allow the recognition and use of biodiversity, the recognition of pluriculturality, the sustainability of ecological, economic and social processes, with the participation of the regional community and will be implemented in accordance with the territorial development policy of the National Government.

-A state policy will be formulated for the Colombian Orinoquia, which will pick up the region's concerted processes and integrate it into national development. The "Orinocia Plan for the 21st Century" will be integrated into the present NDP.

-The Ministry of the Environment, Housing and Territorial Development considers the sustainable development of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta as a priority and the conservation of its water basins. Declares the massif as a special zone of eco and ethnotourism.

-Integral Water Management. Comprehensive management plans and management of micro-basins will be implemented in about 500,000 hectares, including reconversion to sustainable productive systems and the establishment of some 120,000 hectares of protective plantations, the report said. especially water supply areas. We will work on the special protection of moors and wetlands. A comprehensive policy will be developed through the enactment of a Water Framework Law. The Waste Water Management Plan will also be implemented and a comprehensive policy will be developed and the harmonization of the regulatory framework for water of utmost importance for the country, especially the Magdalena, Cauca, Bogota, Atrato, S and S Juan, Meta, Sinu, San Jorge, Baudo and Patia; and will follow the program of decontamination of the Bogota River.

-A State policy will be formulated related to the integral management of water, which brings together the natural conservation of fauna and flora species, which promotes the development of an irrigation district and ensures water supply. More than 500 thousand inhabitants of the Upar Valley region. To this end, the construction and implementation with state support of the Los Besotes multipurpose project, located in the microbasin of the Guatapuri River, is declared a priority. The irrigation district of the La Copa dam (central province, Boyaca department) and the Southern Triangle of the department of Tolima are also a priority.

-An assistance and financial support strategy will be put in place for "green markets", with public and private actors. New products derived from the sustainable use of biodiversity will be developed, the business organisation and the development of a market intelligence system will be supported. In this context, the marketing of products originating in buffer zones of national parks will be promoted, small and medium-sized enterprises and community-based organizations will be promoted and production chains will be promoted for export. The market of companies dedicated to the use of solid waste, clean energy and sustainable mining, as well as the care of forests and other natural resources by people participating in crop substitution programs will be encouraged. illicit. The development of a national greenhouse gas capture project and ecotourism projects in protected areas, with private and community participation, will be promoted.

-In relation to tourism in the system of natural national parks, it will take into account the established in the sectoral development plan and the recommendations and formulations of the territorial entities will also be addressed.

-Strategic environmental assessments will be carried out for critical productive sectors and work on the efficiency of environmental licensing. Measures will be developed to prevent and control air pollution, water pollution and hazardous waste. The cleanest production instruments, monitoring and evaluation of sectoral environmental management will be improved and emissions reduction projects will be prepared.

-Planning and efficient management of the environment by environmental authorities. The construction of regional visions of sustainable development and the improvement and consolidation of participation spaces for environmental management will be promoted. A State policy will be formulated for the environmental sustainability of development. Progress will be made in the consolidation of the Environmental Information System for Colombia, guaranteeing systematic environmental monitoring. The second generation of environmental baseline indicators for Colombia will be prepared. National environmental research policy and national environmental education policy will be implemented.

-With the resources of article 117 of Law 788 of 2002, an environmental fund will be stimulated for the recovery of the Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta for the execution of lines and strategic programs for the maintenance and conservation of this global biosphere reserve, wetland of international importance in the Ramsar Convention.

in the context of the territorial development policy and as a recognition of the proposals that the Afro-Colombian, indigenous, and mestizo communities are building and in the development of international commitments, a policy will be pursued. State for the Colombian Pacific strategic ecoregion based, among others, on the Pacific Agenda 21 and the Pacific Plan.

-In the interoceanic biological corridor between the departments of Cordoba, Antioquia and Choco that unites the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the National Government will promote and promote the conservation of strategic systems.

-The National Government will set up a team to present a study on the creation of the Environmental and Ecotourism District of Leticia. This team will be composed of: a representative of the Directorate of Fiscal Support, a Representative of the Directorate General of Public Credit, a delegate of the Ministry of Environment, a delegate of the Foreign Ministry, a delegate of the DNP, a delegate of the Ministry of the Interior, and four delegates of the Congress of the Republic. The work team will present its conclusions to the Congress of the Republic within six (6) months of the National Development Plan. In any case, you will not be able to alter the current distribution of the General System of Participations resources.

-Education and prevention policies will be formulated and supported, solid waste generation will be encouraged and separation practices will be encouraged at source, necessary for environmental sustainability and for the consolidation of recycling as a viable and productive activity within the national economy.

-Marketing of goods and services. The Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development will promote the marketing of services associated with the National and District Natural Parks System.

-In relation to tourism in the Natural National Park System, it will take into account what is established in the Sectoral Development Plan and will also address the recommendations and formulations of the territorial entities.

-Impelled the recovery of water basins. The sanitation of Indigenous Respects will be used as a strategy for conservation and environmental recovery in those sites where National Natural Parks, Indigenous Respects and Watersheds for Human Consumption and Water agricultural production.

-The Nation " Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development-territorial entities and utilities, within their competencies, will be able to support the creation of regional enterprises that allow joint efforts to advance drinking water and basic sanitation programs in their territories, which will count for their financing with resources from the General System of Participations " General Purpose-and royalty resources. The National Government may co-finance the projects that these companies develop.

-Environmental legislation will be promoted to allow for self-sustaining development, the enhancement of the comparative advantages of the country, for the promotion of green markets and the supply of environmental services.

9. Generation of jobs

-Economic growth policies and direct employment support will create approximately 2 million new jobs during the four-year period. The new jobs will be achieved thanks to the elimination of salary surcharges, the increase in the number of learning contracts and the reduction in the costs of redundancy and the parafiscal contributions to the Sena, Instituto Colombian Family Welfare (ICBF) and compensation boxes. In the latter case, companies employing, among others, expresdiaries, disabled, reinserted, young, over-50s, and heads of household are included.

-The direct employment support program will implement, within the budgetary constraints, the temporary subsidy, for up to six months, aimed at micro, small and medium-sized enterprises that generate new jobs. This programme will particularly benefit heads of household with children under age or disabled.

-The system of protection for the unemployed will be developed to maintain the quality of life and partially and temporarily compensate for its reduction of income. The beneficiaries will be entitled to the services of the compensation and training access boxes on the part of the Sena, which will allocate part of their collections to this type of project. At the same time, the Sena will improve labor intermediation, which will expand its registration of job-seeking companies.

-Strengthening training for the unemployed population will seek to facilitate their linkage to the labor market. The goal of the Sena is to substantially increase the number of people receiving training in the four-year period, for which it will support the construction of the National Training System for Work.

-To promote the creation of virtual employment exchanges at local, municipal, district and national levels, in coordination with the public and private sectors.

-Under the development of article 32 of Law 590 of 2000, the creation of the Advisory Councils for the relationship of educational establishments with the business sector will be promoted.

-Job generation strategies will be created and established for women and men over the age of 50 who are unemployed and are in the right physical condition to do the job, in the rural and urban areas.

-Projects will be created, supported and promoted that will grant the necessary tools for training and technical advice, which will require the development of Hydroponic Cultures, as a guarantee of food security for women and men over 50 years of age who do not receive any income or protection from the State, in the urban and rural areas.

-Technical recognition mechanisms will be established for women who develop a craft or craft craft.

C. BUILDING SOCIAL EQUITY

The Government's three main challenges to building a more just society are:

a) Increase the efficiency of social spending so that the greatest resources are translated into better results;

b) Improve the focus of spending so that resources reach those most in need; and

c) Consolidate a social protection system so that economic crises do not, in full, compromise the future possibilities of the most vulnerable groups.

1. Educational Revolution

-Expand coverage in preschool, basic, middle, and higher education.

-An effort will be made to create 1.5 million cupos in preschool, basic and middle education through the implementation of various complementary efforts, among others, increases in efficiency, additional resources from constitutional reforms. and the Rural Education Programme, with priority attention to the most vulnerable population and taking into account the displaced population.

-In higher education, it is expected to retain and incorporate approximately 400,000 students through various mechanisms: The implementation of a program through which new funding schemes for lower income students are created (100,000 quotas over five years), the modernization and improvement of the management of public universities (retaining 80,000 students and generating 70,000 new quotas) and the promotion of technical and technological education (150,000 new quotas).

-The National Government will establish the distribution schemes of the Nation's budget to the state higher education institutions to be allocated based on the criteria set out in this law.

-Improve the quality of education. The quality of preschool, basic, middle and higher education will be improved through the improvement plans, the dissemination of successful experiences, the mechanisms of relevance of education, connectivity and informatics, the use of programs In the case of the Commission, the Commission has been able to make a number of comments on the Commission's report, which is based on the report of the European Commission and the European Commission. in the regional context.

-Improve the efficiency of the education sector. To this end, mechanisms will be developed to improve productivity, efficiency and sector transparency, and to ensure the quality of investments, such as the institutional modernization of the Ministry of National Education, the modernization of departmental and municipal entities in the sector, the coordination of management and performance plans, and the development of the education sector information system.

-The National Government will regulate non-formal education, in such a way that it is articulated with the objectives of the national education system.

-The National Government, in coordination with the Ombudsman's Office, will promote in educational establishments the development of citizen competence that includes training, respect and the practice of Human Rights.

2. Expansion and improvement of social protection and security

-Health insurance coverage will be strengthened and increased through a joint effort between the Nation and the territorial authorities; the transformation of supply-to-demand subsidies, which will be made progressively from the year 2004; the effective collection of resources for its financing; and the best exploitation of the monopoly of games of luck and chance. With these policies, it is expected to incorporate at least five (5) million new members of the subsidized health regime.

-Financial sustainability of the General System of Social Security in Health (SGSSS) will be sought and the flow of resources and operation of the subsidized regime will be improved.

-Access and delivery of health services in the System will be improved through the restructuring and capitalization of hospitals, the regulation of the entry of Health Care Institutions to the SGSSS, the promotion of mechanisms of accreditation to improve the quality and creation of care networks.

-In public health, the vaccination course will be increased to at least 95% in children under 5 years of age. A policy of promotion and prevention will be developed to interact with the benefits plans of the contributory, subsidized and complementary regime. Health programs will be designed to promote healthy lifestyles; intra-family and sexual violence; prevention and control of chronic diseases, sexual and reproductive health; formulation and implementation of a health policy With special attention to conditions arising from violence; social participation in interventions of interest in public health; development of the information system and nutritional surveillance; and the reduction, among others, of the incidence of pregnancy in adolescents, AIDS, malaria, and cervical cancer.

-The national cancer network of the National Institute of Cancerology will be organized to which the Institutions of Public Health Services will belong, which will treat the poor uninsured population suffering from cancer, with The Ministry of Social Protection and the local authorities will also be responsible for financing the Ministry of Social Protection and the private sector.

-Citizens ' power in decision-making will be strengthened by facilitating the participation of the organized community in the different processes of the social protection sector.

-For the protection of the family, youth and children, a bill will be introduced to clarify the powers of the nation and the territorial entities on family protection. The ICBF, an entity that will specialize in the proposal and direction of policies for family assistance and protection, will be progressively decentralized. A national food and nutrition plan will be formulated that will include multiple comprehensive strategies and actions to mitigate the problem of malnutrition with the participation of different actors with responsibility for the problem. As an integral part of this plan, we will work on the program to expand food quotas for children, in order to grant about 500,000 breakfasts or lunches, seeking to reach up to 1,300,000 children who benefit from this program. Food banks will be promoted.

-The protection of family, youth and children will be carried out with the active participation of the Family Welfare Institute, ICBF. Special attention will be given to the expansion of food quotas for children, in order to grant about 500,000 breakfasts or lunches, seeking to reach up to 1,300,000 children who are beneficiaries of this program. It will also work on the prevention and care of domestic violence, and the most vulnerable groups of the population: the elderly and the disabled. Likewise, a system of juvenile criminal responsibility will be designed, the National Youth Council, the National Youth System and the National Youth Information System will be implemented. Under the coordination of the Presidential Office for Women's Equity and, on the basis of a process of concertation with the entities governing sectoral policies, specific actions, responsibilities and responsibilities will be defined and defined. " Women in the construction of peace and development-within the framework of the strategies and programs provided for in the National Development Plan. The Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) will design and implement educational and cultural programs that allow integration between the elderly and youth, aimed at training in values and the recovery and strengthening of civic behaviors and respect for the community.

-A network of operating social protection will be created to provide continuity to the Social Support Network programs, reforming the system of identification and classification of potential beneficiaries for social programs (Sisben) to have a appropriate targeting of such programs.

-Pensional reform will guarantee intra-and intergenerational equity. The National Government will develop a comprehensive policy to address the pension problem through the implementation of Law 797 of 2003.

-The Sisben will be strengthened as a system of information that consults social and regional reality. The system will incorporate other variables necessary for the purposes of management, planning and administration, and will weigh them according to the socio-cultural conditions of the territories.

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-The National Public Policy of Youth will be designed and implemented with a ten-year vision, based on the participation of the young population for its design and construction, linking local and municipal processes.

-The institutional promotion of the Youth Councils will be implemented and strengthened, understanding this as making visible the function, responsibility and importance of these spaces, constituted for the dialogue between the interests of the Youth and the Central Administrations of the Municipalities, Districts, Departments and the Nation.

-Permanent assistance for food and medicines to women and men over 60 years of low economic resources and to present nutritional deficiencies will be provided.

-The creation of the 60-year-old Single Adult National Information System will be supported, which will be made known through the mass media.

-In the extension of coverage the Social Security systems in Health will give priority to the linking of women and men over 60 years old who are not linked in any of the regimes.

-To conduct mass outreach campaigns for the Rights of the Older Adult of 60 years, in order to bring awareness to the wider community about the importance that this population group represents for the family and society.

-We will also work on the prevention and care of domestic violence, and the most vulnerable groups of the population: the elderly and the disabled. In the first case, public policy will be formulated in third age and care strategies to improve the conditions and quality of aging, for which it will be necessary to strengthen the complementary social services (physical, mental health, and social). The results and the impact of the program that has been carried out by the Social Solidarity Network will be evaluated, to then define more flexible modalities of care and give priority to family care. Care will be applied with demand subsidies that may be monetary, in kind, or through basic and complementary social services.

-To address the disability situation in the country, the National Plan of Intervention in Disability will be developed, within the framework of public policy, in order to guarantee the intersectoral programs and strategies that will prevent Disability situations. Likewise, it will be for the respect and recognition of the differences that arise from the condition of disability, as well as to provide the conditions for achieving the greater autonomy and participation of people with disabilities in the spaces everyday life, with the participation, commitment and solidarity of the family, the community and the state.

-The control entities referred to in the third indent of Article 97 of Law 715 of 2001 shall not be able to charge audit fees for any concept to the Institutions of Health Services (IPS) or hospital network. An entity of control which contravenes this provision or which is immersed in it incurs a cause of misconduct. In this case, the internal control dependencies of the respective territorial entity will also have disciplinary powers.

-A Conpes document will be developed containing the general guidelines for the design and construction of the National Youth Public Policy.

3. Boost to the solidarity economy

-An institutional and legal framework will be created with clear rules that are favorable to the development of the private sector.

-The socio-economic development of smaller organisations will be promoted and the creation of organisational forms to encourage the linking of informal and independent workers will be encouraged.

-The strategies aimed at these objectives include the promotion of socio-economic development through co-financing of projects, the discount lines specially designed for the sector, the stimulus to the creation of new organizations through the development of incubators of private solidarity economy organizations, and lines of credit and co-financing.

-It will promote the linking of companies in the solidarity economy in the processes of social capitalization of utility companies and will establish the mechanisms of financial and operational support so that these policies can be effectively applied.

-Financial and savings cooperation will be stimulated to develop instruments for the collection of resources from popular savings and the placement of resources in productive projects carried out by companies in the economy. solidarity and will define the policy of access to microcredit, creating mechanisms that allow these entities to implement them, as well as the mechanisms of support and technical assistance needed in these processes.

-The actions of control and supervision by the Superintendency of the Solidarity Economy will be strengthened, whose scope of competence will cover the entities of the solidarity economy organized under a business scheme and whose object (a) social activity is the exercise of socio-economic activity.

-It is necessary to create the Public Territorial System of support for the social and solidarity sector. The National Government, in order to strengthen the social and solidarity sector, within the autonomy criteria of these organizations, will promote strategies to strengthen each of the union's national order expressions of cooperatives, NGOs, employee funds, communal, mutual and voluntary action boards and will work on the creation of a social and solidarity sector committee.

-The social and solidarity sector will make agreements and pacts for transparency and coexistence, as a formula to consolidate public opinion's confidence in the sector.

-Consumer protection. The government will strive to avoid economic phenomena that undermine the purchasing power of consumers, will support the creation and strengthening of its associations and leagues, will guarantee the respect of its rights to information, to the protection, representation, education, compensation, the free choice of goods and services and to be heard by the public authorities. To do so, it will preserve the spaces enshrined in the Constitution and the law in defense of consumers.

-State entities of national or territorial order may conclude agreements, in order to promote programs and projects in activities of public or community interest, in accordance with the National Plan and the Territorial Development Plans, with non-profit institutions and with solidarity organizations, especially Juntas de Acción Comunal, of the respective beneficiary communities to achieve the maximum efficiency of the public resource, with the aim of reaching greater and better benefits for the community and society.

-The participation of cooperatives and companies of the solidarity economy supervised by the Supersolidary in the implementation of the policies adopted by the Plan will be promoted, through the execution of housing projects for the sectors In order to link them to the educational revolution, education, as a contribution to the educational revolution, economic integration for the provision of comprehensive health services, and rural development with technical assistance and technology transfer. production chains and markets.

-The National Government will consult Recommendation number 193 of the International Labour Conference, ILO, approved in Geneva in June 2002, where the importance of Cooperativism as a factor for human development at the level is recognized. global and valuable instrument in sustainable employment and income generation, resource mobilization and investment generation, as well as their contribution to the economy.

4. Social handling of the field

-The Social Management of the Field will address the rurality from an approach that transcends the agricultural productive dimension and recognizes the synergy between the countryside with small and medium urban centers and metropolitan areas. It highlights the active participation of communities in decentralised scenarios and introduces considerations such as environmental sustainability, territorial planning, gender equity and regional, cultural and ethnic specificities, which are parameters for the design of incentives and mechanisms of rural and sectoral development policies.

-The Social Management of the Field proposes a reasonable protection for national production, in a free trade framework and within the agreements of the World Trade Organization because of its importance for defense and generation of employment and achievement of the objective of food security. Therefore, the sectoral trade policy will continue the export promotion process.

-The strategy proposes the regional focus of investments based on the reduction of inequality, territorial planning and the exploitation of the strategic potential of the field. In this regard, you will support interventions through:

a) Access to basic infrastructure and housing;

b) Food security;

c) Associative and productive schemes for rural development;

d) Scientific and technological development; and,

e) Access to productive and financial factors, expanding the coverage of the support granted by the Agricultural Fund of Garant ia, FAG, to the small producer.

-The planning of agrarian reform and rural development should correct the use of land in the areas of greater agricultural aptitude by promoting its recovery, promoting a reform of rural relations and therefore of the agricultural sector that The modernization of the peasant-agriculture relations, in the frameworks of regional development and the expansion of the economic frontier.

-The scheduling process will consider the following:

-The representative sectors of the rural community, the private sector, and territorial public entities in each region will be called to validate the territorial, geopolitical and geoeconomic aspects of the region, as well as to guide the bases. of rural development, based on the technical study on the competitive advantages and supply and demand balances of productive factors, raw materials, intermediate goods and final products. An updated agricultural census will be available and a supply standard will be boosted. The policy will seek to modernise marketing channels in order to ensure greater transparency in price formation mechanisms. The best management and quality of the statistics of the agricultural sector and its timely dissemination will be given. The policy will seek to modernise marketing channels with the aim of improving supply and transparency in price formation.

-Will be oriented to small and medium-sized rural enterprise projects, where industrial and service sectors are linked to production areas, to create the conditions for equitable participation of poor populations in the distribution of benefits of the development of rural activities, leading to the articulation of agriculture with other economic sectors to be the effective livelihood of the economic, social and democratic life of rural Colombia.

-The elimination of the causes of regional economic and social imbalances, through differentiated attention to the rural environment especially in the most vulnerable regions, for which the following aspects will be taken into account:

-Current and potential zones suitable for agricultural production and current location of small, medium and large property.

-Environmental protection and conservation zones.

-Maximum risk areas: floods and landslides, earthquakes and droughts.

-Non-renewable natural resource exploitation zones.

-Areas occupied by infrastructure works such as current and projected public roads and services.

-Urban, peri-urban and rural areas.

-Tourist areas and housing plans.

-In these areas, five-year plans for rural development and agrarian reform will be drawn up to harmonize macroeconomic, sectoral policies and the particularities of the region's development and identify the instruments to be promoted.

-To avoid the dispersion of programs related to the development or improvement of living conditions in the countryside, the decisions or investments made by the different ministries and entities of the national order that have to do with the rural and/or agricultural sector will be coherent and harmonious with sectoral policy.

The National Government will study and define the desirability of concentrating these programs under the direction of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

-The government will continue its support for the coffee sector through:

a) Direct incentives to coffee activity;

b) Programs for access to credit and the continuation of the Agricultural Recovery Program (PRAN);

c) Co-financing of technical assistance and scientific research programmes;

d) Current institutional and legal framework adjustments, in particular the accounting separation of the functions of the National Coffee Fund, and the subsequent updating of the Fund's management contract between the National Government and the Federation of Cafeteros;

e) Social Development and Conversion Programmes, and

f) Diplomatic Gestions to seek improvements in international prices for the benefits of coffee growers.

-The National Government will be able to support the cultivation of existing cane in areas eligible through:

(a) Programs of access to credit and continuation of the program of agricultural reactivation;

b) Co-financing of technical assistance and scientific research programmes;

c) Programs for conversion and social development.

-Strengthen women's organizations in the countryside especially in the poorest areas, in order to increase demand in sectors such as: crafts, jewelry, ecotourism, rural tourism.

-Support Community processes in terms of exchange of products, the aim of which is to cover basic food security needs.

-The National Government will stimulate fumigation with ultra-light years to reduce costs in agricultural production.

-Equal access to land is a strategic condition for the enjoyment of the right to food, rural housing and the sustainable development of urban settlements, for which the National Government honors the International Covenant by the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations, and is committed to promoting an equitable agrarian reform, reducing the concentration of land ownership and facilitating the access of peasants to rural property and the competitive production of food and agricultural inputs.

5. Social capitalism in public services

-In order to overcome financial crisis situations of public companies that provide public services, and subject to the subscription of strict adjustment programs, the government will be able to promote, when it is considered viable, participation of users, workers, creditors, investors and other citizen groups (social capitalism) as part of a comprehensive strategy to restore its operational and financial viability. To this end, it will be possible to promote the creation of funds that will be able to acquire the ownership of these companies as part of the solidarity sector, when this is possible, or to develop financing schemes conditioned to their participation. in your administration.

-For the protection of public and social heritage and continuity in the provision of services, the Superintendence of Public Services in the Home of resources and mechanisms will be able to address the processes of taking possession and liquidation of Public Service Companies in a more efficient manner.

-Tools shall be used to enable settlement agents to conclude the acts and contracts required, within the settlement process, for another undertaking to assume the provision of the respective service in a reasonable time and, that way, ensure the continued provision of the same.

6. Micro, small and medium enterprise development

-The strategy of promoting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises will be focused on two objectives:

a) Removing financing access restrictions and lower costs, and

b) Design and development of comprehensive support instruments.

These targets will be met by two mechanisms:

First, measures that build trust within the financial market and rationalize development banking, seeking greater consistency and impact on the promotion credit given by financial institutions.

Second, implementation of programs that develop basic business skills in microentrepreneurs: contribute to productive diversification and the generalization of greater added value of microenterprise products, which will be financed with resources from the Colombian Fund for Modernization and Technological Development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Fomipyme, structuring the projects based on the demand for services of organized microentrepreneurs by productive lines and geographical location.

-In the same way, programs and projects will be developed that link microentrepreneurs with new markets, establishing trade alliances and product marketing development, in turn strengthening their business and trade organizations, seeking to increase bargaining capacity against markets and economies of scale.

-The Fomipyme will boost projects in each region according to their priorities and potential.

7. Quality of urban life

In order to achieve the sustainable development of cities, the Government will implement the following programmes:

-Decentralization of the National Housing System; for this, housing developments will be framed in the policies of urban-regional development in coordination with the territorial authorities, in this sense, the National Government facilitate and encourage the integration of government resources and cooperate with the development of planning and management tools.

-Cooperation and strengthening of the housing information systems articulated with the territorial and socio-economic information systems in support of the processes of management and control of politics and participation.

-Development of the housing policy in the contexts of the territorial order therefore the housing will be integrated with the plans of urban management and with the structural elements of the territory like the public space, the mobility and the (a) transport and direct public services.

-Development of instruments and control mechanisms to ensure the quality of housing projects.

-Strategic partnerships integrating private sector initiatives and resources into their business, solidarity and community expressions with research and academic centers.

-Promoting and promoting popular housing organizations.

-Attention to population displaced by violence due to internal conflict.

-Decrease in quantitative and qualitative housing deficits under the following lines of action: new housing in expansion processes (especially in intermediate cities); urban renewal and consolidation, improvement integral housing in urban and rural areas, population resettlement due to environmental risk factors and urban renewal.

-Real estate management in the protection of housing dwellers of social interest with: the impulse to the urban housing rental regime with innovation of modalities that lead to the dwelling in property consulting the particularities sociocultural and socioeconomic population of the Colombian population, prior to prior regulation of urban planning, and access to housing used with criteria of habitability and socioeconomic mobility.

-Development and planning of suitable spaces to improve the quality of life of early childhood (Gestation up to 5 or 6 years).

-Create recreational spaces that favor the integral development of the individual.

-Reduce the high levels of concentration of wealth and property, a phenomenon that causes most of the existing social inequality.

8. Prevention and mitigation of natural hazards

On the issue of disaster prevention and mitigation, the government will bring forward the following programs:

-The knowledge in risks of natural and anthropic origin will be deepened and disseminated.

-Risk prevention and mitigation will be included in territorial and sectoral planning and investment.

-It will seek to reduce the financial vulnerability of the government to disasters.

-The state response mechanisms will be optimized for these events.

-The National Government, in accordance with its powers, will be able to finance the completion of the channeling and adaptation of the streams that threaten disasters. In the same sense, they will roll out programs for their environmental axes.

9. Strengthening ethnic groups

-The Presidential Council for Ethnic Affairs will coordinate with the Ministries the design and definition of policies conducive to raising the standard of living of ethnic groups and to ensure their participation in decisions concerning them.

-There will be consultation schemes with indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities to improve their living conditions and ensure that the services of the financial and credit system are extended to these communities.

-The legal instruments that encourage the development of the population of the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina will be advanced.

-In relation to ROMs (Roma) mechanisms will be proposed to recognise their rights and customary practices. Programs and projects aimed at improving their living conditions will be promoted.

-Indigenous Peoples will be facilitated to design their own Life Plans in accordance with their worldview. The State will support its elaboration and implementation and will also guarantee the fulfillment of international conventions and treaties for the development of the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

-In the departments with indigenous population, the implementation of the resources of the regional projects by sectorizar that has corresponded to them, will be considered as one of the criteria for the definition of the projects, the population weight Indigenous people in these departments, in correspondence with their life plans. The regional quota allocated to the department in health, education, and basic sanitation programs will take into account projects of ethno-health, ethnoeducation, and basic sanitation of indigenous communities.

-The government will coordinate and design a strategy to target national, regional and inter-institutional resources to promote the acquisition of land, constitution, expansion and sanitation of Respects for Indigenous Peoples.

-The Ministry of the Interior will design and define policies conducive to raising the standard of living of ethnic groups and ensuring their participation in decisions that concern them.

-The National Government will seek to implement the National Plan for the Development of the Afro-Colombian population, towards a multi-ethnic and multicultural nation, formulated by the National Planning Department in 1998.

-The National Government will adopt special emergency measures to guarantee human rights and to repair the negative effects caused by the armed conflict.

-A special program for the acquisition and endowment of lands for Black Communities that do not have land or that possess it in an insufficient way will be developed. It will also be implemented, with the support of the territorial entities, a policy of legalizing and securitization of urban pregod in subnormal areas, promoting the access of the Black Community in the different housing programs and contributing the equipment of sports, cultural and recreation areas, guarantee a policy of employment, health, access to credits of foments and resources of cooperation that serve as bases to strengthen the processes of productive development.

-Destinate resources and agree with Afro-Colombian communities to formulate a comprehensive long-term development plan in compliance with the 1993 Law 70 , from its vision and particularities ethnic-cultural.

-Strengthen institutionality to ensure the participation and visualization of the Black Communities and the promotion of their culture and the consolidation of their heritage.

-As a recognition of the proposals that the Afro-Colombian, indigenous, and mestizo communities are building and in the development of international commitments, a State policy will be developed for the strategic ecoregion of the Pacific. Colombia, based on the Pacific Agenda 21 and the Pacific Plan.

-In the areas identified within the Basic Plan of Territorial Ordering as an indigenous concertation, where infrastructure works of interest of the municipality and/or in the development of the EEZs are projected, the decision of land use will be excluded of the process of consultation with the Indigenous Authorities and will remain under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Council of Territorial Planning.

-A comprehensive registration and identification program will be designed to involve all existing ethnic groups in accordance with the rules.

-The approval of international instruments of protection for indigenous peoples will be boosted in accordance with the fiscal possibilities.

-The National Government will support the strengthening of indigenous intercultural education according to the ethno-educational principles contained in its PCI.

10. Women builders of peace and development

-In the development of the National Constitution, in compliance with the international commitments made by Colombia and, with the purpose of promoting development with gender equality and equal opportunities for women and men, the National Government will bring forward the policy for women. This will be done through the Presidential Department for Women's Equity, which will coordinate a process of consultation with Ministries and other public entities to articulate the gender dimension in their programs and projects, within the framework of the strategies and programmes, referred to in the National Development Plan.

-An equality and equity plan will be formulated in the opportunities between women and men. The functions of the Presidential Office of Equity for Women will be specified. A public communication plan for equity between women and men and between generations will be formulated, and women's rights will be disseminated and promoted to impact domestic and sexual violence.

-To favor women with scarce resources and especially the woman head of the family who has previously been identified to receive aid in health, education, housing, recreation and employment as a matter of priority.

-Create a system of national information regarding the work carried out by the entities working on the topic of women, which gathers local and regional experiences.

-Direct and autonomous participation of women's organizations in the different national and local processes of dialogue and political negotiation of the social and armed conflict, which includes and represents the interests of the diversity of the Movement Social de Mujeres.

11. Support, promotion and promotion of sport, physical recreation and physical education

-The National Government, through the Colombian Institute of Sport, Coldeportes, will take the necessary measures to comply with the article 52 Constitutional, where the sport and recreation, are part of education and constitute social public expenditure. This will take into account the "Plan Nacional para el Desarrollo del Deporte Colombiano 2003-2008".

D. THE RENEWAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

The National Government will promote a renewal of public administration based on three components:

a) Strengthening citizen participation;

b) adoption of a new culture of public management, and

c) Advancing decentralization and its articulation with territorial law.

The benefits enshrined in Chapter 2 of Law 790 of 2002 will be applied to the retired public servants of the service in development of the program of renewal of the Public Administration of the Order national, from 1 September 2002 to January 2004.

According to the regulations issued by the National Government, the economic recognition provided for in Article 8or Law 790 of 2002, will be paid for a period not exceeding 12 months; improving the labor skills of the article 12 of the law, as well as the special protection set forth in article 12 of the law, apply until January 31, 2004 , except in relation to the next servants to be penalised, the guarantee of which must be respected until the retirement or old age pension is recognised.

1. Strengthening citizen participation

-Citizen participation in the definition, execution and monitoring of public tasks will be strengthened. Commitment to the public will be boosted from basic education. The integration and participation of community vetoes in all administration activities will be further developed and facilitated.

-In the territorial administrations the participation of the citizenry " and the community organizations will be promoted in the elaboration of budgets and in the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of the decisions of public policy that the affect.

-Information systems will be created so that citizens have real time access to information on public administration, such as the payroll of the administration, tax accounts, administrative procurement processes, and the execution of public investment.

-Models of evaluation and qualification of public management will be developed that will be in harmony with the scheme of evaluation of decentralization and territorial public management.

-Citizen participation and its relationship with public administration will be stimulated at both the territorial and national levels. One of the main mechanisms for participation and consultation will be the communal councils of government, in which the citizenry, the local authorities and the National Government converge.

-The National Government will also support the activities of the National Planning Council aimed at strengthening participatory planning processes and the structuring and consolidation of the National System of Planning.

-Actions to update and train members of local assemblies, councils and administrative boards will be held.

2. A new culture of public management

-Modern management concepts and practices for the management of public entities will be established.

-A state policy on austerity will be established to be applied in the national order. The cost of state apparatus and bureaucracy will be reduced and privileges will be removed.

-An institutional redesign will be carried out within each state body, to increase efficiency and management through a recomposition of the plant to the missionary work.

-A set of transversal reforms will be implemented that seek to solve the structural problems of the State, in terms of planning, budget, public procurement, administrative career, judicial defense of the State, and management and management of public assets.

-Will advance on expedited results evaluation processes and strengthen the Online Governance Program and unified information systems.

-The public budget will be an efficient instrument of economic and social policy; for this, macroeconomic and fiscal constraints will have to be adhered to. The determination of public spending priorities should be transparent and allow for an efficient allocation of public resources. A reform will be carried out on the budget system, which will be guided by international standards, and will be aimed at generating greater flexibility in the budget. Likewise, a communication strategy will be developed so that the citizenry will have a greater knowledge of the budget and be able to exercise adequate oversight of the approval and execution of the budget.

-The National Administrative Department of Statistics, DANE, will adopt and implement a national information policy, in order to provide the public administration with strategic, reliable, timely, quality information, and that contribute to improving decision-making, the adoption of public policies and the monitoring of public management. Such policy shall respect the principles of security, accessibility, relevance, timeliness, efficiency and quality of information.

-The National Planning Department shall define the information that national or territorial public bodies and entities, public servants and persons carrying out public functions or providing public services on behalf of The State, which is responsible for the intervention of state contracts or the administration of public resources, will be obliged to supply and publish, for the purposes of ensuring the monitoring of public administration, as well as the parameters, the periodicity and the responsible for supplying and publishing such information; and the mechanisms for dissemination of the monitoring and evaluation of the results of public administration, in the framework of the National Assessment System.

-Corruption will be treated as a problem of the state, understood not only as plundering of the treasury, but also as a phenomenon associated with those public decisions that do not consult the general interest, in order to favor interests personal or group. The fight against corruption will be the main focus of the reform of public procurement. For this purpose, the state entities will disclose in advance their programs and budgets for hiring and investment and the characteristics of the projects that they will bring forward, through technological means. Each entity shall implement quality audits and the provision of services to the citizen. Citizen control will be stimulated by means of oversight that will ensure transparency in state management.

-The phenomenon of corruption in its various manifestations as a state problem will be attacked, either by action or omission, based on both its consideration and the problem of the State, as in the definition and implementation of various actions that prevent and sanction them in an exemplary way, basically through the application of the Law of Repetition and the Anti-Corruption Statute.

-Pursuant to Article 103 of Law 788 of 2002, once the investigation has been initiated by the competent authority, the appointing entity through its Board of Directors will proceed to immediately suspend the faced official.

-The government will coordinate the implementation of a personnel selection program so that the linkage of public officials to be determined is carried out through open competitions (meritocracy).

-Strengthening of the Technological Modernization Program of the Registry-Mass Renewal of Citizen Identification Document. The National Government will study viable alternatives for financing linking the private sector and other countries in a process of mass renewal of the citizen identification document.

3. Progress in decentralization and territorial development

-The deepening of decentralization and territorial autonomy will be brought forward mainly within the framework of the Organic Law of Territorial Ordinance that the National Government will be responsible for promoting in the Congress of the Republic until its definitive approval.

-The National Government will coordinate with the territorial entities the formulation of a territorial development policy, in order to create internal capacities in the territories.

-You will also promote the creation of regions.

-Strategic territorial planning and management processes and regional consolidation mechanisms of different scale will be brought forward, which will make the will of local and regional authorities and generate work dynamics The joint venture between development actors, public and private. Departmental initiatives related to the "Territorial Ordinance Guidelines" will also be supported as strategic for the departments and for the country as a

.

-As well, it will support urban-regional strategies and processes that structure networks of intermediate and smaller cities, articulated with rural spaces that dynamize and integrate the country's peripheral areas. The definition of a regional model will serve as a reference framework for the implementation of housing and construction policy.

-The National Government will formulate a national prospective territorial development plan, which should be based on the widely agreed and participatory formulation of a national vision of development.

-A comprehensive system of permanent evaluation of decentralization, territorial public management and territorial planning will be designed and implemented through comprehensive information systems and indicators that support the planning and decision-making. The assembly of departmental and local information systems will be supported with economic and technical resources, so that a single Territorial Information System, which is integral and articulates the three territorial levels and the sectorial information.

-60 of Law 921 of 2004. The new text is as follows: > Municipalities and districts, shall carry out and adopt the socioeconomic stratification of municipal or district heads and rural populated centers, at the latest twelve (12) months from the time of the the competent entity defines the methodologies and the municipalities to which it is required to apply them.

Public service companies will apply to the collection of public services at the latest five (5) months after they have been adopted by the Mayor's Office, or the Government in the case of San Andrés, in the Department of San Andres. and Providence.

-The offer of credit and territorial co-financing will be reorganized in such a way as to have mechanisms of uniform and transparent access and the resources are directed towards key sectors for territorial development. The Government, based on the powers granted by the Congress, will issue a mental and health care system for territorial entities that will allow them to have instruments to improve their tax management.

-The Policy of Integration and Border Development will be formulated, taking into account existing regulations and instruments.

-The government will encourage joint working sessions between local governments and the private sector to advance the creation of long-term joint visions of the territory.

-The possibility of the incorporation of new forms of municipal government will be analyzed in order to ensure the best delivery of local services.

-The cadastral update will also be supported in rural areas, considering that it is necessary throughout the territory as a fundamental input to improve the planning processes and improve information for the collection and strengthening Tax on local authorities.

-A program related to territorial planning and strategic environmental assessment will be implemented in rural areas, considering the fundamental part of the Territorial Planning Plans is the rural and environmental component, which also require evaluation and support, and which require continuity and updating.

[El Tiempo] The National Government will stimulate the city's programs such as Bucaramanga, Medellin-Valle de Aburra, and Bogota-Cundinamarca. In the latter, the National Government will continue to support the process of the Bogota-Cundinamarca Regional Planning Table, initiated by the department of Cundinamarca, the Capital District, the CAR and the Nation, through the design and implementation of a concerted regional policy, the development of investment projects and regional development instruments and incentives.

E. REGIONAL INVESTMENT PROJECTS

The development of the projects listed below will be consistent with the fiscal targets and will be subject to the existence of additional current resources to those contemplated in the Plan:

-Roads

5,000km Pavement

Terminating projects running.

National network maintenance.

Termination projects running. Department of Narino.

Termination projects running Bolivar-The Manza, Quibdo.

-National Vies running

Bypass the Galeras.

Grass-Buesaco-The Union-Mojars.

The Pedregal-Tuquerres.

The Draw-San Jose-San Bernardo-La Cruz, San Pablo.

-Colombia Deep

Community infrastructure in the Pacific, South, East and Caribbean regions, plus the depressed areas of the interandin.

-Fluvial

YUMA Project: Recovery of river and port of Magdalena river and port improvement river Cauca.

Port improvement rivers Meta and Zulia.

River and port improvement Axis Atreo-rio Quito-San Juan River.

River and port improvement Bay of Cartagena-BBQ Bay, Dique Canal.

-Airport

Airport and airport infrastructure maintenance.

Improvement and construction of community airports-Santa Ana Airport.

Improvement and construction of Costa Pacifica airports.

-Concessions

Bogota-Girardot.

Bogota-Honda-La Dorada.

Concession del Sur (Narino and Sur del Cauca).

Pereira-Cartago-Honda.

Granting of Santander.

Briceno-Tunja-Sogamoso.

Aburra-Oriente Valley Extension.

Girardot-Ibague.

Minor concessions in regional association.

Contingent Guarantees.

Interconnection between routes 90 and 90 A.

-Rail System

Activation North and Pacific Concessions.

Extension Cartag-La Felisa-Bolombolo-Zarzal-La Tebaida.

second Carbone Line.

Inactive sections.

-Port

Maintenance of national public ports access channels.

Dragado Buenaventura, Tumaco, Cartagena and Barranquilla.

Official port expansion support in Buenaventura.

Puerto Nodriza Pacific Studies.

Studies Puerto Nodriza de Tribute, in the department of Chocó.

-Trails

-Regional Specific Projects.

CHAPTER III.

MULTIANNUAL BUDGETS.

ARTICLE 9o. PROGRAM VALUES. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The values assigned in the 2002-2006 National Public Investment Plan for the main programs described in the previous article are expressed by sectors in the table below, in figures in millions of pesos in 2002:

INVESTMENT PLAN 2003-2006

Millions of Constant Pesos 2002

SECERS	Central (3)	Des-centralized (4)	General System Participates	Private	Overall Total
Fund for Peace	1.760.021.82	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.760.021.82
	989.1111.31	5.588.99	0.00	0.00	994.700.30
Defense	2.907.066.11	355.459.01	0.00	0.00	3.262.525.12
Justice	715.914.12	0.00	0.00	0.00	715.914.12
Hacienda	4.378.357.13	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.378.357.13
Agriculture	936.051.19	0.00	0.00	0.00	936.051.19
Social (1)	12.722.831.42	1.140.133.24	51.872.282.05	3.100.318.69	68.835.565.40
Infrastructure (2)	5.528.208.71	8.136.570.21	0.00	16.542.272.21	30.207.051.14
Bodies	406.857.06	0.00	0.00	0.00	406.857.06
Environment	177.767.47	0.00	0.00	0.00	177.767.47
Regional Investments by sectorizing	1,000,000.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	1,000,000.00
TOTAL GENERAL	31,522.186.36	9.637.751.45	51.872.282.05	19.642.590.91	112.674.810.77

Source: DNP-DIFP.

(1) Corresponds to Health, Labor, Education, Culture, Housing, Basic Sanitation, and Royalties.

(2) Includes Communications, Transportation, Mines and Energy and Mass Transportation Systems.

(3) Legislative, Judicial and Executive Ramas, Organization Ele ctoral, Public Ministry, Accounting and Public Establishments of the National Order.

(4) Industrial and Commercial Companies of the State and Companies of Mixed Economy.

The total amount of expenses incurred for the implementation of this Plan shall in no case exceed the amount of the resources available in accordance with the National Government's Macroeconomic Plan.

CHAPTER IV.

MECHANISMS FOR PLAN EXECUTION.

SECTION ONE.

GENERAL CHARACTER PROVISIONS.

ARTICLE 10. LEGAL RELATIONSHIP OF THE PLAN. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > Pursuant to the third paragraph of article 341 of the Constitution, the Public Investment Plan content in this law shall be given precedence over other laws. As a result, their mandates will constitute suitable mechanisms for their implementation and will supply the existing ones without the need for the issuance of subsequent laws.

ARTICLE 11. EVALUATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > To strengthen public management oriented to the achievement of the results of the Development Plan, the National Government, within the framework of the National System of Evaluation, will regulate the schemes for monitoring, evaluation, incentives and dissemination of results, which ensure efficiency, effectiveness and transparency in the allocation of resources. In any case, the Congress of the Republic, through the Economic Commissions, will name two (2) members of each of them that will do part of monitoring and the evaluation of the Plan, and will present to each of the Chambers a semi-annual report of their results. Also, will be concerned with the inclusion of the investments contained in the rubric of "regional investments by sectorizar-that it treats the article" href="ley_0790_2002.html#6"> 6or this law, which can be run in the 2003 Effective Budget.

ARTICLE 12. RESTRICTION ON OPERATING EXPENSES. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > To comply with this Plan, except for the operating expenses referred to in Article 19 of Act 790 of 2002, those for pensions, health, defense expenses, the General System of Participations, and other transfers that point to the law.

ARTICLE 13. SOCIAL CAPITALIZATION FUNDS. 276 of Law 1450 of 2011 > Social Capitalization Funds may be established as mechanisms for recovery, stabilization and capitalization of Public Service Companies Existing or existing homes, which will make it possible to facilitate the development of business solutions in order to ensure the viability and continuity of service delivery. Through these Funds, investments made in those by all kinds of persons, including, among others, users, workers of such companies, creditors, investors, will be channelled to public service companies. private, the Nation, when it considers it appropriate, and other public entities.

PARAGRAFO 1o. These Funds may be constituted as autonomous assets administered by fiduciary entities, contracted in the manner agreed by the contributors and governed by the rules of private law. Representatives of the contributors to the Fund shall participate in the trust committee.

PARAGRAFO 2o. These Funds may be made up of the Superintendence of Public Services domiciled in the case of Public Utilities of Public Services Domicile object of takeover, or by the the same company, according to the legal provisions governing contracts of commercial loyalty. In the events of the companies involved, the respective contract and its reforms can only be concluded after approval by the Superintendence of Public Services.

PARAGRAFO 3o. In the case of Funds oriented to the restructuring, recovery or stabilization of the Public Service Companies, the Nation and its decentralized entities, they will only be able to carry out Please consider appropriate, upon subscription of financial, operational and labour adjustment agreements.

ARTICLE 14. AUTHORIZATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FUNDS OF SOCIAL CAPITALIZATION. 276 of Law 1450 of 2011 > The Nation and the decentralized entities of the national order are authorized, when they deem it appropriate, to invest all or part of their accreances with Public Service Companies, either official or mixed, in the Social Capitalization Fund.

The Nation and its decentralized entities, after meeting the requirements set out in the previous paragraph, will also be able to restructure their accrecias in the companies referred to. Failure to comply with the financial, operational and labour adjustment agreement will result in the application of the accelerated clause.

PARAGRAFO. In the case of Funds oriented to the restructuring, stabilization or recovery of the Public Service Companies, the Nation and its decentralized entities, they will only be able to make the contribution they consider appropriate, subject to the subscription of financial, operational and labour adjustment agreements.

ARTICLE 15. RESTRUCTURING OF SERVICE DELIVERY.

ARTICLE 16. AUTHORIZATION TO FEN. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > To ensure continuity in the provision of the public services, the National Energy Financial, FEN, or the entity that does its times, is authorized to to create mechanisms to support the Superintendence of Public Services in the possession of public services for the purposes of the liquidation of Public Services Public Services.

ARTICLE 17. OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > All national or territorial bodies and public entities, public servants and natural or legal persons, public or private, (a) carrying out public functions, providing public services on behalf of the State, carrying out financial services in State contracts or administering State resources, are under an obligation to provide the information required to to advance planning, monitoring and control programs, with a target for the According to the law, the management of the law corresponds to them.

National and territorial public entities responsible for the design and implementation of public policies that tend to the satisfaction of economic, social and cultural rights established in international instruments of rights In the case of human rights and the political Constitution, they will have to provide the Ombudsman with the information it requires in order for the monitoring and evaluation of these policies to be carried out and to establish the extent to which they are developed. respective economic, social and cultural rights and fulfil their obligations impose on the Colombian State. This information will be provided in the terms set out in Articles 284 of the Political Constitution and 15, 16 and 17 of Law 24 of 1992.

The Ombudsman will produce reports indicating the degree of adequacy of the design and implementation of public policies assessed with economic, social and cultural rights, as well as the level of progressive realization of the seconds by the first. Likewise, these reports will make the pertinent recommendations for the design and implementation of the evaluated policies to reflect the obligations of the Colombian State regarding economic, social and cultural rights. These reports and their recommendations will be presented annually to the Economic Commissions and the Plenaries of the Congress of the Republic.

The National Government will review existing information systems and adopt the necessary provisions to ensure articulation, efficiency, effectiveness and avoid duplication.

The National Administrative Department of Statistics, the National Department of Planning and the Ombudsman's Office will design, in a concerted manner, a system of indicators that will permit the establishment of advances or setbacks that will be recorded in the concerning the effectiveness of the economic, social and cultural rights established in international human rights instruments and in the Political Constitution.

The bodies and entities responsible for the receipt and consolidation of the information may request it as long as such information corresponds to the mission, object and functions set out in the law for such entities.

SECTION TWO.

INTERIOR AND JUSTICE SECTOR.

ARTICLE 18. CONTRACTS FOR WORKS AND SERVICES IN SECLUSION CENTERS. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The design, construction and adequacy of the detention centers, as well as the provision of services, may be brought forward necessary for the operation and safety of the same, and those associated with treatments aimed at the resocialization of the inmates, through the conclusion of concession contracts or other contractual schemes provided for in the order The legal basis applicable to public entities which allow individuals to carry out such works or the provision of such services.

THREE SECTION.

AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT SECTOR.

ARTICLE 19. OF THE GUIDELINES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > Amend article 4or Act 69 of 1993, which will remain so:

" The National Government, through the National Agricultural Credit Commission, will establish agricultural insurance in accordance with the following guidelines.

1. The calculation of the agricultural insurance premium shall be carried out against the agricultural risks, the actuarial calculations and the technical studies to be drawn up for the purpose.

2. The insurance will be implemented progressively, according to productions, regions and risks.

3. The insurance shall cover the total of the investments per unit of production financed with credit resources or with own resources of the producer in agricultural activities.

4. Agricultural insurance will cover deductibles according to the insurance mode, the production class and the insured risks, which will be compulsorily assumed by the insured.

The National Agricultural Credit Commission will be able to point out the events in which the credits to the agricultural sector should contemplate the coverage of agricultural insurance to prevent their coverage and viability from being affected by the antiselection.

PARAGRAFO. The National Government will set the rules for insurance entities to perform the underwriting and hedging functions of the risks referred to in the Act. "

ARTICLE 20. NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RISK FUND. Please modify the article 6or Law 69 of 1993, which will be the same: " Create the National Agricultural Risk Fund which will have the treatment of the Fund-Account managed by the Fund for the Financing of the Agricultural Sector, Finagro, or who does its own times, without legal status or plant of personnel. "

ARTICLE 21. OBJECT OF THE FUND. 276 of Act 1450 of 2011 > Modify Articles 7or Act 69 of 1993 and 75 of Law 633 of 2000, which will remain so:

" The fund will aim to allocate resources to supplement the insurance cover for insurance that will cover agricultural producers, where there are failures in the international reinsurance market involving their non-agricultural products. grant. The National Agricultural Credit Commission will study and define the convenience of establishing a subsidy for the premiums to be provided to the producers and a mechanism for granting them by type of product according to the capacities of the fund and foreseeing the sustainability of the scheme. The National Agricultural Credit Commission will establish the rules according to which the fund will fulfill this function, the amount of the contribution that the insurance companies that have authorized the agricultural insurance sector in this event, the how the premiums will be distributed and how and how the claims will be paid. "

ARTICLE 22. COMPANIES MANAGING AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > In order to manage the insurance to be provided by agricultural producers, insurance companies may constitute companies of technical services specialised in the operation of this insurance. These companies will not have the character of insurance company. In this sense, the functions they fulfil are complementary to the insurance activity of the entities participating in their capital.

ARTICLE 23. FUNCTIONS OF THE MANAGING SOCIETIES OF AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The Administrative Societies of Agricultural Insurance will have the following functions:

1. Manage the risks arising from insurance that will cover agricultural producers, in the name and on behalf of insurance companies participating in their capital.

2. Adjust, settle and pay claims on behalf of and on behalf of insurance companies participating in their capital.

3. Carry out the statistical studies and actuarial and technical research required for agricultural insurance.

4. The others that relate directly to their special and exclusive social object.

ARTICLE 24. COMPREHENSIVE SUBSIDY. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > Amend article 20 of Law 160 of 1994 which will remain so: " Establish a comprehensive subsidy that will be granted for one time, for the development of productive projects in enterprise production systems, with principles of competitiveness, equity and sustainability, integrating small and medium-sized producers benefiting from the Reform Programmes Agricultural, located in the geographical sectors defined according to the criteria of the previous article.

The amount of the subsidy includes the value of the land and the complementary investments, such as: fixed capital, pre-dial adequacy, training and technical assistance and marketing, determined in the production project and will be granted by a only to the subject of Agrarian Reform, according to the policies that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development points out, to the eligibility criteria to be determined by the Board of Directors of the Incora or who does its times, and in the areas defined in the process of planning the Agrarian Reform.

The sources of funding for this subsidy will be obtained from the national budget, from international cooperation resources, direct donations and private sector participation. "

ARTICLE 25. COMPREHENSIVE SUBSIDY ADMINISTRATION. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > Amend article 21 of Law 160 of 1994 which will remain so: " The comprehensive subsidy that the article treats This will be administered and awarded by the Colombian Institute of Agrarian Reform, or who will do its own times, which must monitor its implementation and define the mechanisms for evaluation, monitoring and control. "

ARTICLE 26. INTEGRAL SUBSIDY CONDITIONS. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > Amend article 22 of Law 160 of 1994, which will remain so: " The grant of the comprehensive subsidy will be made effective provided that the productive project presents conditions of technical, economic and social viability that guarantee its competitiveness, equity and sustainability, conditions that will be evaluated and certified by the Incora or who does its times, and compliance with budget availability.

In order to guarantee the destination and efficiency of public investment, the beneficiaries of the subsidy will be required to enter into a contract of operation and operation in which their commitments and responsibilities are determined, for a period of not less than defined in the production project and in no case less than five (5) years. The breach of the contract will result in the immediate withdrawal of the subsidy and the loss of its property rights generated within the production project.

The amount of the comprehensive land purchase allowance may be one hundred percent of the value of the property. "

ARTICLE 27. PROVISIONAL ASSIGNMENT OR TENURE CONTRACT. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > In areas defined in the Land Reform planning process, lands acquired or expropriated by the Incora or who do their times, may be delivered to the beneficiaries by means of a contract of allocation or provisional holding up to a term of five (5) years, subject to the definition of the production project to be developed, to which the Institute shall transfer its domain, as long as they prove to have established in them agricultural enterprises competitive and sustainable.

During the term of the contract, the beneficiaries will receive only the subsidy for the complementary investments, such as: fixed capital, pre-dial adequacy, training and technical assistance and marketing, determined in the productive project and will be awarded once to the subject of Agrarian Reform, in accordance with the policies that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development points out, to the eligibility criteria to be determined by the Board of Directors of the Incora or who Do your times.

If, during the term of the contract, the beneficiary fails to fulfil his obligations, the Incora or whoever does his or her duties, by means of a duly motivated administrative act, will determine his exclusion from the agricultural enterprise, selecting in the same new beneficiary act, who will jointly provide the amount of the investment made by the defaulting beneficiary.

ARTICLE 28. OTHER FORMS OF ACCESS TO THE LAND. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The Incora, or who does its times, will promote other forms of access to the land, in order to expand the access of the peasants to their use and exploitation, for which must be intended for:

1. Link State properties at any of the levels, by means of comodor or lease contracts based on productive projects of small or medium enterprises.

2. Reclaim abandoned land from land reform, for agricultural business with the option of reawarding to new producers or displaced people.

3. Use land received by the State for any title or for any procedure.

4. Lease premises, for the duration of the productive projects, or the leasing with option to purchase.

5. To constitute shared risk societies, based on clear contracts in profit distribution.

6. To link land acquired by the State for Agrarian Reform, hiring its adaptation and development with an implementing company to be managed once the equilibrium point of the projects has been achieved. The producers who receive the land are linked from the beginning with the labor force, and generate a savings fund for the subsequent purchase of the land and its exploitation, according to parameters of Agrarian Reform.

7. To promote contracts for free of charge between individuals, whose celebration will also entitle the subsidy to the production project.

All of the above options will be subject to the budget availabilities.

ARTICLE 29. LEASE WITH OPTION TO PURCHASE. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > In areas defined in the Land Reform planning process, when the peasants present a productive project to develop it in pregod on lease with a purchase option, by the conclusion of the relevant contract for a minimum term of five (5) years, they shall receive only the subsidy relating to the lease fee and/or the additional investments, determined in the productive project, and will be awarded once to the subject of Agrarian Reform, with to the policies that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development points out, and the eligibility criteria to be determined by the Board of Directors of the Incora or who does its own times.

If, during the term of the contract, the beneficiary fails to fulfil his obligations, the Incora or whoever does his or her duties, by means of a duly motivated administrative act, will determine his exclusion from the agricultural enterprise, and may select in the same act as a new beneficiary, who will jointly provide the amount of the investment made by the defaulting beneficiary. In the event of the purchase of the property, the beneficiaries will obtain the subsidy for the provision.

ARTICLE 30. RESOURCES FOR RURAL CAPITALIZATION INCENTIVE, ICR. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > For the term of three (3) years, starting from the year with a cut-off date of December 31, 2002, not less than fifty percent (50%) of the Gross profit that, in each financial year of the Fund for Agricultural Sector Financing, Finagro, will be transferred to the Rural Capitalization Incentive program, ICR, created by Law 101 of 1993.

If the General Budget of the Nation were to be added with any percentage of the profits coming from the Agrarian Bank, these will have to be reinvested in its entirety in the programs and investment projects of the agricultural and livestock sector. rural.

ARTICLE 31. FOREST INCENTIVE. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > Income tax payers required to file income statement within the country, which establish new forest crops have the right to discount of the amount of income tax up to 30% (30%) of the investment certified by the Regional Autonomous Corporations or the competent Environmental Authority, provided that it does not exceed 20% (20%) of the basic tax of income determined by the respective year or taxable period.

ARTICLE 32. SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR EXTERNAL DISTORTIONS. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > All agricultural products from abroad, which have been the subject of internal production aid or export subsidies or Monetary or economic policies with an impact of distortion in prices, generate unfair competition to national production when entering the country. For these reasons Colombia will establish special treatment as the case may be, including tariff policies for products in which external distortions harm domestic producers to the detriment of their income and income. national employment. This treatment takes special importance when the affected are the country's peasant populations.

The verification of the presence of domestic aid or subsidies in the products to be imported, or distorted monetary or economic policies, will be determined by the National Government, and will invite the discussion to the union of the production to which belongs to the product in question.

ARTICLE 33. FINANCING OF IRRIGATION PROJECTS. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The financing of irrigation projects through long-term loans will favor initiatives of a business type and a peasant economy. Bilateral agreements will be sought to obtain advice, credit and technology. The recovery of investments will be made by granting and charging fees for the use of water.

ARTICLE 34. ON REDISCOUNTING IN THE AGRICULTURAL AND LIVESTOCK SECTOR. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The Fund for Agricultural Financing, Finagro, will continue as an independent and specialized entity, and as an axis of the National of Agricultural and Rural Credit, constituted as a society of mixed economy of national order, organized as credit establishment, linked to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, with its own patrimony and autonomy administrative.

In the same way, Finagro will continue to administer the Agricultural Guarantee Fund of Guarantees, FAG, as a specialized fund to guarantee the credits that are granted within the National System of Agricultural and Rural Credit.

ARTICLE 35. BETTER USE OF PUBLIC RESOURCES. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The resources of the Plan Colombia's Field in Action program will be managed from the institutionality established in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

ARTICLE 36. INVESTMENT WARRANTY. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > Developing and complying with 79 and 80 Political Constitution, to the legally constituted societies before the current law, and whose sole object is the reforestation and sustainable exploitation of forests, the State will issue them, through their Insurance Company, prior payment and within fifteen (15) days following the application, the respective policies which shall ensure the entire investment in accordance with the commercial guarantee that is made of the investment.

ARTICLE 37. STIMULUS TO FUMIGATION WITH ULTRALIANS. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > In order to promote agricultural development and the incorporation of new technologies with better technical, economic and environmental conditions, the Civil Aeronautics will grant special permits for the operation of ultra-light air vehicles in agricultural and livestock activities. The National Government shall establish requirements for such effects.

SECTION FOUR.

SOCIAL PROTECTION SECTOR.

ARTICLE 38. PAGES TO IPS. 276 of Law 1450 of 2011 > Payment to be made by competent territorial entities to public or private PSUR, for the provision of the health service to the non-affiliated poor population in the non-covered area (a) with a view to the application of the provisions of Article 1 (1) of the Rules of procedure, the Commission shall, in accordance with Article 1 (1) of the Rules of procedure, take the necessary measures to ensure that the contracts.

The transfer of resources does not constitute payment mode. Resources may be transferred only where they seek to ensure basic services by public entities where market conditions are monopolistic and the lending institutions are not financially sustainable in terms of efficiency, in accordance with the conditions and requirements laid down in the Regulation. The CNSSS* shall define the basic services covered by this Article.

The National Government shall establish, within the first month of this law, the methodology to be applied by the territorial entities for the definition of the payment modalities referred to in this Article.

Each territorial entity that has competence will define within three (3) months following the validity of this law, the prioritization of the expenditure by population structure and epidemiological profile, based on the available resources, in accordance with the general guidelines defined by the Ministry of Social Protection, without prejudice to any future adjustments that may be necessary in relation to changes in the above factors.

PARAGRAFO 1o. The provision of emergency institutional delivery care services and the Expanded Immunization Program at special vaccination days will not require a contract or a prior order and its recognition shall be in accordance with the provisions in force.

PARAGRAFO 2o. When under exceptional circumstances and in accordance with the rules in force, the Social Protection Min. payment arrangements that are consistent with the quantity and value of the services actually provided, in the terms agreed in the respective contracts.

ARTICLE 39. ENABLEMENT CRITERIA. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > For the enabling of the Services Prestators, Administrators of the Subsidized Scheme and Health Promoter Companies, they must be taken into account criteria for the environment, accessibility, opportunity and quality in the provision of services to users, as well as the technical, administrative and financial conditions ensuring the adequate provision of services and services; risk management in health.

The National Government and territorial entities will be able to contribute to the funding of studies and adequacy in the seismic resistance of public hospitals located in the area of risk.

ARTICLE 40. OF THE MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC HEALTH. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The Directorate of Territorial Ente will assume the management of public health by developing the system of monitoring and evaluation of the state of health, and the formulation of local politics, for the achievement of the priority goals in public health defined by the Ministry of Social Protection, in accordance with Law 715 of 2001.

PARAGRAFO. To contribute to the development of effective health management, the Territorial Health Security Councils will be strengthened in the exercise of social control and other functions assigned by the law.

ARTICLE 41. HUMAN RESOURCES POLICIES IN HEALTH. 160 of Law 1151 of 2007 > The Ministry of Social Protection in compliance with its functions will establish the policy of training and training of the human health resource together with the Ministry of National Education, as well as the policy and mechanisms of accreditation of the human resource of health in exercise. In this sense, the grants, credits enshrined in Paragraph 1 of Article 193 of Law 100 of 1993, will be delivered taking into account the priority needs of training of the human resource in the clinical and research areas of the health sector, focusing in accordance with the beneficiaries ' financing capacity, regional needs and available resources, in accordance with the conditions laid down in the Regulation.

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