e) Contribute to integrity maintenance and

State independence, status of rights and

justice; its institutions and the crime prevention

organized. You will not be able to count among its members with

foreign staff; and,

f) Other that are set out in this Law and in the regulations

that will be issued for the effect.

Art. 16.-From the organization and operation of the National Intelligence Secretariat.- Responsibilities, specific functions, prohibitions,

procedures, hierarchies, command lines, classification and

accessibility levels of the information, the

setting of weights and counterweights systems

interinstitutional or procedures to preserve the

secret, reserve, classification, reclassification, and

declassification of information, and, the correct use and destination

of the information from the National Secretariat

Art. 17.-From the information requirement.- Depending on the security of the State, the ministries and other public entities

will submit to the National Intelligence Secretariat

the information that is required of them; including the

classified information to be issued with the

classification granted, which will be declassified

within the terms or conditions provided for in the Act.

Previewing the ministries and entities

public, the National Intelligence Secretariat must

put in knowledge of this decision to the President or

President of the Republic. The public entities

mentioned will not provide this information if the

request does not demonstrate compliance with this requirement.

Art. 18.-From special expenses.- The National Intelligence Secretariat will have a permanent fund of expenses

special assigned to intelligence activities and

counterintelligence for internal protection, the

maintenance of public order and national defense,

whose use will not be subject to the rules laid down in the law that

regulates the national public procurement system.

The permanent fund of reserved expenses will consist of the

General State Budget, amount to be accessed

public, not the expenses allocations that will be

classified information.

Art. 19.-From the classification of the information of the security agencies.- The National Secretariat of Intelligence and the security agencies will be able to classify

the information resulting from the investigations or

activities that

The maximum authority of the

The information and documentation will be classified as

reserved, secret, and secret. The regulation to the law

will determine the fundamentals for classification,

reclassification and declassification and access levels

exclusive to classified information.

All information classified as reserved and secret will be

free access after five and ten years,

respectively; and if it is secret after

fifteen years.

Information classified as secret will be

declassified or reclassified by the Ministry of

Security Coordination or who does times. If no

reclassification exists, it will be automatically declassified

after the expected time of fifteen (15) years.

In exercise of individual rights and guarantees

citizens will be able to sue Before the Constitutional Court the

declassification of information in the event that

there are serious presumptions of rights violations

humans or committing illegal acts.

Art. 20.-From judicial authorization.- When intelligence agencies, as part of operations

covert, require to retain, open, intercept or examine

documents or communications by any means,

will ask the President or President of

the National Court of Justice for the authorization

corresponding, by a reserved request, which

will consist in the special registers that, for the effect,

will maintain the Judicial Function.

In the regulations that will be issued by the National Council The

Judicature will establish the procedure to determine

the Judge competent in case of the President's failure

of the National Court of Justice or the Specialized Chamber

of the Criminal for the case of appeal.

These special registers will be declassified within the time

fifteen (15) years provided for in this law.

The request will be resolved in a manner motivated by the judge in

the maximum period of twenty and four (24) hours. All

court actions relating to that request will keep

the reservation. The judge will be able to deny the application for impertinence

or for serious affectation to the rights of the subjects on

who are engaged in the covert operation, or to consider

which has as sole objective the political benefit of the

Requesting. From the refusal you will be able to appeal to the

National Court of Justice's Criminal Court,

until within three (3) days, which you will be able to resolve

by modifying the resolution to the degree.

To grant the Judge the authorization, this will be granted until

for a maximum period of sixty (60) days, which will expire

automatically; unless duly requested

is justified for renewal only once; and that out

granted again by the intervening Judge; in this case,

the deadline may be extended for up to sixty days (60)

whenever it is imperative to complete the

investigation.

The authorization that the Judge grants by trade, will give

the instructions to guide compliance with the

constitutional guarantees.

Art. 21.-From the destruction of information that does not give rise to the criminal action.- If the information collected in the covert operations did not result in the beginning of the

corresponding criminal action, all the supports of the

recordings and documentary information obtained, must

be destroyed or deleted, prior to authorization and in the presence

of the intervener Judge.

In this case, prior to destruction must be

notify to the person who was the subject of the investigation,

who prior to the destruction is entitled to