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LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY-REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR
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DECREE NO 124
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR,
CONSIDERING:
I.-That by Legislative Decree No. 529 dated January 13, 1999, published in Official Journal No. 23, Volume N ° 342, of the 3rd of February of the same
year, the Law of Customs Simplification was issued, with the object of establishing the basic legal framework for the adoption of simplification, facilitation and control of customs operations, through the use of systems
automatic exchange of information.
II.-That by means of Legislative Decree No. 23, dated June 7, 2012,
published in Official Journal No. 123, It took N ° 396, from 4 July of the same year, the Law referred to the previous recital has been reformed, with the objective to modernize the customs and to allow the customs service to access the technology
adequate, that it will facilitate the licit trade of goods through the interaction and integration of the participants in the logistic chain and the implementation of non-intrusive inspection services.
III.-That by means of article 12-B of the said Law, the rate was created by the Provision of Services of Non-Intrusive Inspection, the obligation of which is generated by the entrance or exit of Goods or means of transport of the territory
national customs and payment of the same shall be made at the time of the electronic transmission of the Manifesto, Declaration of Goods to any of the Customs Regimes, Form Single Central American Customs,
Internal or International Transits or other declarations or forms to cover the transport, movement or movement of goods to and from the customs territory.
IV.-Which by means of Legislative Decree No 902 of 12 December 2014, published in the Official Journal No 238, 405, from 19 of the same month and year,
were excluded from the payment of the Rate in reference to the operations of international land transit.
V.-That it is necessary to regulate some exemptions to the payment of the Rate established in the Art. 12-B of the Customs Simplification Act, such as, the operations performed by the Diplomats in accordance with the Vienna Convention and the
imports of goods made under the Simplified Declaration mode less than one thousand dollars from the United States of America, among others; as well as the realization of other operations, which will make the appropriate application
in general terms, of the non-intrusive inspection service.
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BY TANTO,
in use of its Constitutional powers and on the initiative of the President of the Republic, through the Minister of Finance.
DECRETA the following:
REFORMS TO THE LAW ON CUSTOMS SIMPLIFICATION
Art. 1.-Reform the ninth indent of Article 12-B and incorporate an end point, as follows:
" They shall be excluded from the payment referred to in this Article, the goods in transit that do not have the territory of origin or destination national, the operations carried out by the diplomats of conformity
to the Vienna Convention, the imports or exports of goods carried out under the modality of Simplified Declaration less than one thousand dollars from the United States of America for each importer or exporter, the Declarations containing travellers ' luggage and those that by Conventions or other
Laws are exempt. "
" For the purpose of ensuring the provisions of this provision, the Ministry of Finance shall have the power to carry out all necessary financial, budgetary and accounting operations, indispensable and
all costs and expenses arising from the provision of the Non-Intrusive Inspection Service. "
Art. 2.-This Decree will enter into force eight days after its publication in the Official Journal.
GIVEN IN THE BLUE HALL OF THE LEGISLATIVE PALACE: San Salvador, at the eighteen days of the month September of the year two thousand fifteen.
LORENA GUADALUPE PEÑA MENDOZA, PRESIDENT.
GUILLERMO ANTONIO GALLEGOS NAVARRETE, ANA VILMA ALMASEZ DE ESCOBAR, FIRST VICE PRESIDENT. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT.
JOSÉ SERAFIN ORANTES RODRÍGUEZ, NORMAN NOEL QUIJANO GONZÁLEZ, THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT. FOURTH VICE-PRESIDENT.
SANTIAGO FLORES ALFARO, FIFTH VICE PRESIDENT.
GUILLERMO FRANCISCO MATA BENNETT, DAVID ERNESTO REYES MOLINA, FIRST SECRETARY. SECOND SECRETARY.
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MARIO ALBERTO TENORIO GUERRERO, REYNALDO ANTONIO LÓPEZ CARDOZA,
THIRD SECRETARY. FOURTH SECRETARY.
JACKELINE NOEMI RIVERA AVALOS, JORGE ALBERTO ESCOBAR BERNAL, FIFTH SECRETARY. SIXTH SECRETARY.
ABILIO ORESTES RODRÍGUEZ MENJÍVAR, JOSÉ FRANCISCO MERINO LÓPEZ, SEVENTH SECRETARY. EIGHTH SECRETARY.
CASA PRESIDENTIAL: San Salvador, two days before the month of October of the year two thousand fifteen.
PUBESQUIESE,
Salvador Sánchez Cerén. President of the Republic.
Juan Ramón Carlos Enrique Cáceres Chávez, Minister of Finance.
D. O. N ° 181 Tomo N ° 409
Date: October 5, 2015
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