ONLY.- THE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION LAW FOR DEVELOPMENT IS SET OUT TO REMAIN:

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION LAW FOR DEVELOPMENT

First Title

General Provisions

Article 1. This Law is of general public order and observance throughout the national territory, and shall apply without prejudice to the provisions of international treaties.

This Law is intended to provide the Federal Executive Branch with the necessary instruments for programming, promoting, concertation, promoting, coordinating, implementing, quantifying, evaluating and supervising International Cooperation Programs and Actions for Development between the United Mexican States and the Governments of other countries as well as with international organizations, for the transfer, reception and exchange of resources, goods, knowledge and educational, cultural, technical, scientific, economic and financial.

The actions of international cooperation for the development carried out by the Mexican State, both in its character as a donor and as a recipient, must be essential to promote development. sustainable human, through actions that contribute to the eradication of poverty, unemployment, inequality and social exclusion; the permanent increase of educational, technical, scientific and cultural levels; the reduction of asymmetries between developed and developing countries; the search for the protection of the environment and the fight against climate change, as well as the strengthening of public security, based on the principles of international solidarity, defence and promotion of human rights, strengthening of the State of rights, gender equity, promotion of sustainable development, transparency and accountability and the criteria of appropriation, alignment, harmonisation, performance-oriented management and mutual responsibility.

Article 2. The provisions of this Law set forth the legal guidelines for:

I.            Compliance with the objectives set out in the International Development Cooperation Programme.

II.           The administration, quantification and oversight of human, material and budgetary resources allocated directly or transferred to the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation, through the Secretariat of External Relations for the exclusive fulfillment of the tasks of coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the Program of International Cooperation for Development, in the national, binational, regional and multilateral fields, in its different sides.

III.          The administration, quantification and oversight of the resources that the Mexican Agency for International Cooperation for Development receives from other sources, national and international, through procedures that guarantee full transparency.

IV.         The compliance with existing and future international agreements and agreements on international cooperation signed by the Mexican State.

Article 3. Dependencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration are subject to this Law.

Article 4. For the purposes of this Law:

I.            AMEXCID: The Mexican Agency for International Cooperation for Development.

II.           Cooperation Horizontal: Cooperation for economic and social development in which the offeror's resources are supplemented by counterpart resources provided by the recipient.

III.          Cooperation International: International cooperation for development as defined in the terms and for the purposes of Article 1 of this Law.

IV.         Cooperation Triangular: Cooperation mode in association with a traditional bilateral or multilateral source, in order to participate jointly in actions in favor of a third applicant nation, of lesser or similar relative development.

V.          Cooperation Vertical: Cooperation granted to developing countries without the contribution of counterpart resources.

VI.         Cooperating: The Mexican public sector moral person who brings together the technical and institutional capacities to participate in the execution of the activities of supply or demand for international cooperation.

VII.        Council Consultative: The Advisory Board of the AMEXCID.

VIII.       Advice Technicians: Technical Councils for the attention of specific topics of international cooperation that can be proposed by the Advisory Council.

IX.         Demand for Cooperation: The actions of international cooperation that Mexico requires to strengthen its educational, scientific, technical and technological capacities for its development process.

X.          Director Executive: The Executive Director of the AMEXCID.

XI.         Offer of Cooperation: The actions of international cooperation that the Mexican institutions can carry out in support of third countries, in the modalities of vertical, horizontal and triangular cooperation.

XII.        Program: International Cooperation Program for Development.

XIII.       Registration National: National register of participating institutions and experts and international cooperation actions.

XIV.       Secretariat: The Secretariat of Foreign Affairs.

XV.        Treaties International: The instruments of public international law referred to in section I of article 2 of the Law on the Celebration of Treaties.

Article 5. The competent authority for the application and interpretation of this Law shall be the Secretariat.

Second Title

Of The Instruments for International Development Cooperation

Chapter I

General Provisions

Article 6. They are instruments for International Cooperation, the following:

a) The Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation, and

b) The International Development Cooperation Program.

Chapter II

From the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation

Article 7. The AMEXCID is created as a deconcentrated organ of the Secretariat, in the terms of its internal regulations, with specific attributions to resolve on the matters mentioned in the This Law and the other relevant provisions.

Article 8. The AMEXCID will have technical and management autonomy, in the terms of this Law and the provisions of the Secretariat's Rules of Procedure, and will have the material and human resources available. approved in terms of the applicable provisions, as well as of the financial resources in accordance with the Federation Budget of the Federation concerned.

Article 9. The AMEXCID will have the administrative and operational structure provided for in the Secretariat's Rules of Procedure.

Article 10. The AMEXCID will have the following attributions:

I.            To coordinate, coordinate and encourage actions of international cooperation with agencies and agencies of the Federal Public Administration;

II.           Assist the Secretariat in the elaboration of the International Development Cooperation Program, in accordance with the provisions of the Planning Law, which shall be submitted to the Advisory Council for its observations and recommendations;

III.          Advise the Secretariat, in the field of its competence, on international treaties and interinstitutional agreements that it subscribes to in the field of international cooperation;

IV.         Support, monitor, evaluate and monitor, in the field of their competence and in coordination with the relevant cooperating institutions, the implementation of international cooperation policies and actions in accordance with the outlines of the Program;

V.          Establish, under objective and transparent criteria, the qualification of cooperant and specify the scope of its mission, in the international agreements that are signed in the field, both for the Mexican nationals participating in the international cooperation actions in third countries such as foreign nationals who do so in Mexico, without prejudice to international treaties;

VI.         To conclude, with the participation of the competent authorities of the Secretariat, agreements with the governments of the federative entities, municipalities, universities and institutions of higher education and research, belonging to the sector public, for the implementation of international cooperation actions;

VII.        To conclude, with the participation of the competent authorities of the Secretariat, agreements of collaboration with international cooperation agencies of other nations to carry out joint actions in third countries with less relative development, in accordance with Article 8 of this Law;

VIII.       Administer, as part of its functions, the National Registry and the National Development Cooperation Information System;

IX.         To promote, with the participation of the competent authorities of the Secretariat, the establishment of a fund for the financing of international cooperation actions and specific programmes entered into agreements and agreements, in accordance with Chapter I of Title IV of this Law;

X.          Exercise the general functions assigned in the Secretariat's Rules of Procedure and in regulatory agreements that result from it, and

XI.         The other ones that correspond to it, in accordance with applicable legal provisions.

Article 11. It is the express obligation of the AMEXCID to identify options for international cooperation and, where appropriate, to prepare the evaluations prior to the implementation of the projects resulting from them,  in coordination with the bodies and institutions involved, in order to have clear references for the formulation of evaluations of the results and impacts at the end of their implementation, the elaboration of which will also be the express obligation of the AMEXCID itself.

Article 12. The AMEXCID, with support in the data from the National Registry, will have to develop a methodology to account for the total of the human, financial and technical resources. Mexican cooperators are destined for this purpose.

Article 13. It is the responsibility of the AMEXCID for its staff to be kept up to date in relation to best practices in international cooperation, developed, adopted and implemented by the AMEXCID. cooperation agencies of third countries and specialised multilateral organisations.

Chapter III

From the Authorities of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation

Article 14. The management and administration of the AMEXCID correspond to the Executive Director.

The Executive Directorate will have the organizational and administrative structure to be established in the Secretariat's Rules of Procedure.

Chapter IV

From the Advisory Council of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation

Article 15. The Consultative Council of the AMEXCID is constituted for the purpose of contributing to the formulation of the Program of International Cooperation for Development, or its equivalent, and of public policy in this field, whose definition is responsibility of the Secretariat. The Advisory Board shall be composed of a representative of each of the Secretaries and entities mentioned below, who shall have the right to vote:

a) Secretary of Government;

b) Foreign Secretary;

c) Secretary of National Defense;

d) Secretary of the Navy;

e) Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit;

f) Secretary of Social Development;

g) Secretary for the Environment and Natural Resources;

h) Secretary of Energy;

i) Secretary of Economy;

j) Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food;

k) Secretariat for Communications and Transport;

l) Secretariat of the Civil Service;

m) Secretary of Public Education;

n) Secretary of Health;

n) Secretary of Labour and Social Welfare;

o) Secretaría de la Reforma Agraria;

p) Secretary of Tourism;

q) National Council of Science and Technology;

r) National Council for Culture and the Arts; and

s) National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples.

The Presidency of the Advisory Council will be in charge of the Secretary of Foreign Relations.

The members of the Advisory Board will have to have their respective alternates, who will have the lower immediate level of hierarchy and will have the same powers as the owners in case of absence of these.

The Council may request its president to invite representatives of the governments of the federal authorities and municipalities, as well as the private, social and academic sectors, to participate in Right to Voice.

The charges in the Advisory Board will be honorary.

Article 16. Corresponds to the AMEXCID Advisory Board:

I.            Know the Program and, where appropriate, make recommendations to the Secretariat for its proper integration;

II.           Formulate recommendations on specific projects and programmes of international cooperation and broad lines of action of the AMEXCID;

III.          To be aware of the annual evaluations of the results of the cooperation and international assistance actions carried out or coordinated by the AMEXCID and to issue an opinion on them, and

IV.         To be held in an ordinary course twice a year and in an extraordinary manner when it is considered that there are matters of particular interest or importance in the matters of its competence.

The President of the Advisory Council may convene meetings of the Technical Councils that are proposed by the Executive Director to have their say or participate in the elaboration and evaluation of specific actions for international cooperation on specialised topics.

Article 17. The agreements within the Advisory Council shall be taken by a simple majority; in the event of a tie, the President of the Advisory Council shall have a vote of quality.

Chapter V

From the Executive Director of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation

Article 18. At the front of the AMEXCID there will be an Executive Director, who will be proposed by the Secretary and appointed by the head of the Federal Executive Branch.

Article 19. The Executive Director will have the following attributions:

I.            Establish technical and administrative policies, guidelines, criteria, systems, and procedures that should govern the administrative areas with which AMEXCID counts;

II.           Agree and subscribe to the agreements and contracts relating to the AMEXCID, in accordance with the provisions and guidelines to be laid down by the Secretariat's central administrative units;

III.          Manage human resources, as well as the financial and material assigned to the AMEXCID for the development of its activities;

IV.         Coordinate with all the cooperating institutions the necessary actions for the preparation of the Programme and present the proposal to the Advisory Council;

V.          Carry out the actions required for the implementation of the policies, objectives and goals established in the Program and coordinate its implementation, in accordance with the policies, guidelines and procedures issued by the Secretariat, taking into account the recommendations of the Advisory Board;

VI.         To propose to the Advisory Council the establishment of Technical Councils for the treatment of specific topics of international cooperation, with the participation of the specialists of the agencies and entities set out in Article 3;

VII.        Prepare the preliminary draft of the annual budget of the AMEXCID, subject to the consideration of the Secretariat and, once approved, conduct its correct and timely implementation;

VIII.       Propose the projects of manuals of organization, procedures and services to the public, relating to the AMEXCID, after obtaining the opinion of the General Office of the Secretariat, which must be issued by the Holder of the Secretariat;

IX.         Propose to the head of the Secretariat the delegation of powers to subordinate public servants;

X.          Participate, in the field of their competence, in the design and establishment of coordination and coordination mechanisms that are established with federal, state and municipal authorities;

XI.         Coordinate with the holders of the administrative units of the Secretariat for the effective dispatch of the affairs of their competence;

XII.        To provide the information, data, qualification criteria or technical cooperation that is required officially, in accordance with the provisions of this Law and the provisions of the Federal Law on Transparency and Access to Government Public Information;

XIII.       Monitor that the legal and administrative provisions are strictly enforced in all matters for which the attention is concerned;

XIV.       Comply with the control and control rules that lay down the relevant legal provisions;

XV.        Submit to the Advisory Council the semi-annual report on the performance of the activities of the AMEXCID, including the financial year and the corresponding financial statements, the proposed targets and the commitments made, without prejudice to to do the same with the Secretariat;

XVI.       Attend the Consultative Council sessions with a right to voice, but no vote;

XVII.      Serve as Executive Secretary of the Advisory Board, and

XVIII.     The others entrusted to it by this Law, the Interior Regulations of the Secretariat, as well as other applicable legal provisions.

Article 20. To be the Executive Director of the AMEXCID is required:

1.           To be a Mexican citizen by birth and to be in full enjoyment and exercise of his civil and political rights;

2.           Having experience in the subject matter of the AMEXCID;

3.           Having held positions related to international development cooperation whose exercise requires knowledge and experience in administrative, academic or scientific matters;

4.           Be served thirty years of age on the day of appointment, and

5.           Enjoy a good reputation.

Article 21. The Executive Director of the AMEXCID may not, during the performance of his or her duties, perform any other employment, position or commission other than that of interest, with the exception of teaching or scientific nature.

Chapter VI

From the International Development Cooperation Program

Article 22. The policies and mechanisms of implementation of International Cooperation will be established in the corresponding Program.

Article 23. The Program is the basis for the planning and execution of international cooperation actions, as well as the strategies of reception, transfer and exchange of resources, assets, knowledge and experience in educational, cultural, technical, scientific, economic and financial matters.

Article 24. The Program should include the following aspects:

I.            The general policy of international cooperation consisting of the set of actions for the transfer of resources, goods, knowledge and educational, cultural, technical, scientific, economic and financial experiences of third parties countries and international organizations to Mexico, and from Mexico to third countries, with the fundamental purpose of strengthening in both cases the national capacities for development;

II.           The identification of the geographical areas that are priorities for the interest of Mexico in the field of international cooperation, in the first place Central America and the rest of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean;

III.          The identification of the priority content of international cooperation, among which must be required: scientific and technological research in all areas of national interest, health, education, environmental protection and disaster prevention, under the principles outlined in the last paragraph of the first article of this Law;

IV.         The means and strategies envisaged for the achievement of the objectives of the Programme, and

V.          The policies that will govern the coordination and coordination of the Federal Executive with the dependencies and entities set forth in Article 3 of this order, in the field of international cooperation.

Article 25. In the orientation of international cooperation policy, the Program shall:

I.            To encourage the participation of public sector agencies and agencies, as well as scientific and technological development centres, and cultural bodies, also belonging to the public sector, in the international cooperation actions;

II.           Establish guidelines to ensure support for Mexico's international cooperation by the diplomatic and consular representations of the Federal Government abroad;

III.          To promote the concertation of conventions, framework agreements and other legal instruments of international cooperation;

IV.         Promote cultural diversity and the projection of Mexico abroad as a multi-ethnic and multicultural state;

V.          To privilege the demand for international cooperation to strengthen the formation of human resources in the areas of greatest strategic importance for national development.

VI.         Promote institutional strengthening for international cooperation, with special emphasis on the formation of human resources specialized in the management of Mexican supply in the field;

VII.        To encourage the conclusion of international agreements for the realization of projects of international cooperation of great impact and long range, actively participating in the international cooperation agencies of different kinds of those of Mexico to be a party;

VIII.       Incorporate the provisions of Mexican law regarding the provision of humanitarian aid in cases of disasters, and

IX.         Ensure consistency with the achievement of the Millennium Goals of the United Nations, as well as with those other international agreements and conventions that have an impact on international cooperation and those of Mexico be part.

Article 26. The Program shall be evaluated annually by the Secretariat, without prejudice to the powers that are relevant to other instances, and may be reviewed every two years. to bring it into line with the changes that occur in the specific areas of its implementation, as well as the progress and limitations that are observed in its implementation.

Title Third

From the International Development Cooperation Information Register

Chapter I

From The National Registry of International Cooperation

Article 27. The National Registry is created, as a function of the AMEXCID, which will be under its direct responsibility, subject to the provisions that the Rules of Procedure provide for the Secretariat.

Article 28. In the National Register they will be entered:

I.            The relationship of the agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration participating in the actions of international cooperation;

II.           International cooperation agreements and agreements signed by the Mexican government with other governments and multilateral entities;

III.          Projects and actions for international cooperation in which the agencies and bodies referred to in Article 3 participate as recipients or donors and in whose promotion, agreement and implementation the Secretariat and/or the Secretariat AMEXCID;

IV.         Offers of international cooperation in educational, cultural, technical, scientific, economic and financial matters presented to Mexico by foreign institutions and governments and by multilateral organizations;

V.          Demands for international cooperation in educational, cultural, technical, scientific, economic and financial matters, posed to Mexico by third countries;

VI.         The subjects set out in Article 3 that have received the qualification of the cooperating member from the AMEXCID;

VII.        International cooperation agreements to be concluded, both in the capacity of the offerors and the applicants, the dependencies and entities set out in Article 3 and the research centres belonging to the public sector;

VIII.       The reports of Mexican and foreign aid workers at the end of their international cooperation missions;

IX.         International treaties and legal provisions relating directly or indirectly to international development cooperation;

X.          The amounts of federal budget allocations to the National Fund for International Cooperation, as well as trusts created for financing specific projects;

XI.         Evaluations of the final results of the international cooperation actions coordinated by the AMEXCID, and

XII.        The amounts, modalities and exercise of the financial resources, donations and contributions in kind from foreign governments and international organizations, which are derived from the international cooperation schemes of which be part of the Mexican State.

Chapter II

From the International Development Cooperation Information System

Article 29. Based on the information entered in the National Register, the AMEXCID will create, organize, manage, and keep up to date, as one of its functions, the Information System of the International Cooperation for Development, establishing an information bank to identify the concurrency and, where appropriate, the duplication of efforts, as well as the possible contradictory initiatives of international cooperation drive the dependencies and instances of the Federal Public Administration.

The information entered in the National Register will be public and subject to the provisions of the Federal Law on Transparency and Access to Government Public Information.

Article 30. Everyone will have the right to have the AMEXCID make available to them the timely information it requests on international development cooperation, as provided by the laws.

Article 31. The AMEXCID, under the coordination of the Secretariat, will design and implement a policy of dissemination of the results and benefits of international cooperation actions for the development, specifying the efforts of the Mexican State in terms of the recipient and the offeror of such cooperation.

Article 32. The agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration granting or receiving international cooperation actions will be required to collaborate with the AMEXCID in the organisation and updating of the information system, through the annual presentation of reports on the inter-institutional arrangements to be concluded in the field of international development cooperation.

Title Fourth

International Development Cooperation Financing

Article 33. International cooperation actions will be financed with federal budget allocations approved by the Chamber of Deputies, as well as with financial and in-kind contributions. foreign governments and international agencies, and with financial and in-kind contributions from the governments of the federal entities and municipalities.

Chapter I

From the National Fund and other International Development Cooperation Funds

Article 34. The National Fund for International Development Cooperation will be integrated with the federal budget allocations for International Cooperation Programs, in the framework of the International Cooperation Programme for Development, and for the contributions set out in Article 33 of this order.

Article 35. The Fund's resources shall be intended to achieve the objectives referred to in Article 1 of this Law, to cover, among others, the following costs:

I.            Training of people to act in international cooperation actions;

II.           Mobilisation to third countries of the persons referred to in the previous fraction;

III.          Acquisition of teaching materials to support international cooperation actions;

IV.         Donation of equipment and materials to countries with a lower degree of relative development, for the application of the transferred knowledge, and

V.          Assumption of the costs of stay in Mexico of foreign aid workers when stipulated in the respective international conventions.

Article 36. The National Fund for International Cooperation may be the recipient of external resources for specific international development cooperation projects and, where appropriate, carry out the transfer of the same to the agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration responsible for its execution, in accordance with the provisions of the legal systems in this field.

Article 37. The National Fund for International Cooperation shall be administered by a trust constituted in accordance with the provisions of the Hacendaria Federal Budget and Accountability Act, Whereas international cooperation is a strategic priority both for development and for Mexico's foreign policy.

Article 38. The Trust's Technical and Management Committee shall be composed of representatives of the Secretariat, the AMEXCID and the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit.

Article 39. The AMEXCID may promote the establishment of international cooperation funds for the execution of specific actions. The resources of these funds will be administered through special trusts, made up of the provisions of the Federal Budget and Accountability Act.

The Technical and Management Committees of these trusts will be integrated with officials of the Secretariat, the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit and the agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration to participate in the projects to which the funds will be allocated.

Article 40. The goods donated in favor of the federative entities and the municipalities, will invariably be incorporated into the patrimony of the State or the municipalities.

Article 41. The AMEXCID, through the Secretariat, will present to the Secretaries of Finance and Public Credit and the Civil Service an annual report on the financial resources received and applied directly by the Agency itself.

Article 42. The Secretariats of Finance and Public Credit and the Civil Service will intervene, within the framework of their respective competences, to evaluate and supervise the management of financial flows. made directly by the AMEXCID and by the trusts created in the terms set out in this Act.

TRANSIENT

Article First. This Decree shall enter into force within 10 days of its publication in the Official Journal of the Federation.

Article Second. The Mexican Agency for International Cooperation (AMEXCID) for the Development referred to in this Law shall be established within 120 days of its entry into force, by the reallocation of resources of all kinds currently allocated to the tasks of international cooperation in the structure and budget of the Secretariat for External Relations.

The programs, projects and other actions that, in compliance with the provisions of this Law and because of its competence, correspond to the agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration, be subject to the budgetary availability to be approved for such purposes in the Federation's Government Budget and the provisions of the Federal Budget and Accountability Act.

Article Third. The Program referred to in the International Cooperation for Development Act shall be integrated within 120 days following the formation of the AMEXCID.

Article 4. The National Register must be instituted, as a function of the AMEXCID, within 240 days of the unconcentrated organ being formed.

Article Fifth. The International Development Cooperation Fund referred to in this Law shall be constituted within 120 days of the formation of the AMEXCID, integrating as seed resources, those that are already part of the budget, such as the Mexican Fund for Cooperation with Central America and the Caribbean, Mexico's Strategic Action Program with the Caribbean, and the Program for Cooperation between Mexico and the Caribbean. Latin America and the 22 Mexico/OAS Fund, as well as the counterpart resources of the cooperation projects agreed with the European Union and several OECD countries.

Article Sixth. The Secretariat of Foreign Relations within 100 days of the passage of the Law on the matter, will propose to the Federal Executive the adequacy of the Rules of Procedure that the rules, in order to include the AMEXCID as an unconcentrated organ and to point out the privileges that this Law confers on it.

Article 7. The Secretariat of Foreign Relations, once this Law has been enacted in the Official Journal of the Federation, will provide the AMEXCID with budget resources that have been allocated in the current fiscal year, in order to start their work at the time indicated in this chapter.

Article Eighth. The staff of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs who, pursuant to this Law, passes to the AMEXCID, including the Mexican Foreign Service, will in no way result affected by the rights that you have acquired under your employment relationship with the Federal Public Administration.

Article Ninth. If any administrative unit of the Secretariat of Foreign Relations becomes part of the AMEXCID, the transfer shall be made including the personnel to its service, furniture, file and, in general, the team that the dependency has used for the attention of the matters in charge.

Mexico, D.F., at December 15, 2010.-Sen. Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera, President.-Dip. Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marin, President.-Sen. Renan Cleominio Zoreda Novelo, Secretary.-Dip. Maria Dolores Del Rio Sanchez, Secretary.-Rubicas."

In compliance with the provisions of Article 89 (I) of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, and for its due publication and observance, I request this Decree in the Residence of the Federal Executive Branch, in Mexico City, Federal District, to four April of two thousand eleven.- Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa.-Rubrica.-The Secretary of the Interior, José Francisco Blake Mora.-Heading.