Single Article.- The General Civil Protection Act is issued.

GENERAL CIVIL PROTECTION LAW

Chapter I

General Provisions

Article 1. This Law is of public order and social interest and aims to establish the basis for coordination between the three government orders in the field of of civil protection. The private and social sectors will participate in the achievement of the objectives of this Law, in the terms and conditions that it establishes.

Article 2. For the purposes of this Act it is understood by:

I. Regulatory Agent: The actions, instruments, standards, works and in All that is intended to protect people, property, strategic infrastructure, production plant and the environment, to reduce risks and to control and prevent the adverse effects of a disruptive agent;

II. Albergado: Person who temporarily receives asylum, shelter, shelter, and protected from the threat, imminence or occurrence of a disruptive agent;

III. Albergue: Installation that is set up to provide protection to people who have been affected in their homes by the effects of disruptive phenomena and where they remain until the recovery or reconstruction of their homes is given;

IV. National Risk Atlas: Comprehensive information system on agents disturbing and expected damage resulting from a spatial and temporal analysis of the interaction between the hazards, the vulnerability and the degree of exposure of the affected agents;

V. Help: Help response to people at risk or victims of a disaster, emergency or disaster, by public or private specialized groups, or by internal civil protection units, as well as actions to safeguard other affected agents;

VI. Brigade: Group of people who organize themselves inside a building, trained and trained in basic emergency response functions such as: first aid, combat to fire, evacuation, search and rescue; designated in the Internal Civil Protection Unit as responsible for the development and execution of prevention, relief and recovery actions, based on the stipulated in the Internal Civil Protection Program of the building;

VII. Climate Change: Climate Change, directly or indirectly attributable to the human activity, which alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to the natural climate variability observed during comparable periods;

VIII. National Center: The National Center for Disaster Prevention;

IX. National Committee: The National Emergency and Disaster Protection Committee Civil;

X. Consultative Council: The Permanent Consultative Council on Civil Protection, as advisory body of the National Council;

XI. National Council: The National Council for Civil Protection;

XII. Continuity of Operations: The Planning, Documentation, and Performance Process ensuring that the substantive activities of public, private and social institutions, affected by a disruptive agent, can be recovered and returned to normal in a minimum time. This planning must be contained in a document or series of documents whose content is directed towards prevention, immediate response, recovery and restoration, all of which are supported by continuous training sessions and drills;

XIII. National Coordination: To the National Coordination of Civil Protection of the Secretariat of Government;

XIV. Damnified: Person affected by a disruptive agent, whether you have suffered damages in their physical integrity or damage to their property in such a way that it requires external assistance for their subsistence; considering that condition as long as the emergency is not concluded or the situation of normality is restored prior to the disaster;

XV. Delegations: The political-administrative bodies provided for in the Staff Regulations Federal District Government;

XVI.        Disaster: The result of the occurrence of one or more severe and/or extreme disturbing agents, concatenated or not, of natural origin, of human activity or those coming from outer space, which when they occur in a time and in a given area, cause damage and which by its magnitude exceed the response capacity of the affected community;

XVII. Donative: The contribution in money or in kind made by the various people physical or moral, national or international, through approved collection centres or credit institutions, to assist federal entities, municipalities or communities in emergency or disaster;

XVIII. Emergency: Abnormal situation that can cause harm to society and promote an excessive risk to the safety and integrity of the general population, generated or associated with the imminence, high probability or presence of a disruptive agent;

XIX. Evacuated: Person who, with preventive and provisional character before the possibility or certainty of an emergency or disaster, is removed or removed from its usual place of accommodation, to ensure its safety and survival;

XX. Anthropogenic Phenomenon: Disruptive agent produced by human activity;

XXI. Astronomical Phenomenon: Events, processes or properties to which they are submitted outer space objects including stars, planets, comets and meteors. Some of these phenomena interact with the earth, causing situations that generate disturbances that can be destructive both in the atmosphere and on the earth's surface, including magnetic storms and the impact of meteorites.

XXII. Disturbing Natural Phenomenon: Disruptive agent produced by nature;

XXIII. Geological Phenomenon: Disruptive agent that has the direct cause of the actions and movements of the earth's crust. To this category are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, slope instability, flows, fallen or collapses, sinks, subsidence and cracking;

XXIV. Hydrometeorological Phenomenon: Disruptive agent that is generated by the action of the Atmospheric agents, such as: tropical cyclones, extreme rainfall, rainstorm, river, coastal and lake flooding; snowstorms, hail, dust and electricity; frost; droughts; warm and freezing waves; and tornadoes;

XXV. Chemical-Technological Phenomenon: Disruptive agent that is generated by the action of different substances derived from their molecular or nuclear interaction. It includes destructive phenomena such as: fires of all kinds, explosions, toxic leaks, radiation and spills;

XXVI. Sanitario-Ecological Phenomenon: Disruptive agent that is generated by the action pathogenic of biological agents affecting the population, animals and crops, causing their death or the alteration of their health. Epidemics or pests constitute a health disaster in the strict sense of the term. Air, water, soil and food contamination are also found in this classification;

XXVII. Socio-Organizational Phenomenon: Disruptive agent that is generated for error In the case of human beings, or by premeditated actions, which occur within the framework of large concentrations or mass population movements, such as: demonstrations of social inconformity, mass concentration of population, terrorism, sabotage, vandalism, accidents air, sea or land, and interruption or the impact of basic services or strategic infrastructure;

XXVIII. Comprehensive Risk Management: The set of actions aimed at the identification, analysis, evaluation, control and reduction of risks, considering them by their multifactorial origin and in a permanent process of construction, involving the three levels of government, as well as the sectors of society, facilitates the realization of actions aimed at the creation and implementation of public policies, strategies and procedures integrated to the achievement of sustainable development guidelines, which combat the structural causes of disasters and strengthen the resilience or resilience of society. It involves the stages of: identification of risks and/or their process of training, forecasting, prevention, mitigation, preparedness, relief, recovery and reconstruction;

XXIX. Volunteer Groups: Moral people or physical persons, who have accredited to the competent authorities, and who have the necessary personnel, knowledge, experience and equipment, to provide in an altruistic and committed manner, their services in civil protection actions;

XXX. Safe Hospital: Establishment of health services that should remain accessible and operating at maximum capacity, with the same structure, under an emergency or disaster situation;

XXXI. Risk Identification: Recognize and assess probable loss or damage on the affectable agents and their geographical distribution, through the analysis of hazards and vulnerability;

XXXII. Strategic Infrastructure: Aquella that is indispensable for the provision of public goods and services, the destruction or disablement of which is a threat to national security;

XXXIII. Financial Instruments for Risk Management: These are those programs and mechanisms of financing and co-financing with which the federal government counts to support federal public authorities and federal entities, in the execution of projects and actions derived from comprehensive risk management, for prevention and Emergency and/or Disaster Care of Origin natural;

XXXIV. Risk Management and Transfer Instruments: These are those programs or financial mechanisms that allow public entities in the various government orders to share or cover their catastrophic risks by transferring the total or partial cost to national or international financial institutions;

XXXV. National Infrastructure Needs Inventory: Inventory integrated by the infrastructure works that are considered strategic to reduce the risk of the population and its heritage;

XXXVI. Mitigation: It is all action aimed at reducing the impact or damage to the presence of a disruptive agent on an affable agent;

XXXVII. Danger: Probability of occurrence of a potentially harmful disruptive agent of a certain intensity, over a certain period and on a given site;

XXXVIII. Preparation: Activities and measures taken early to secure a effective response to the impact of a disruptive phenomenon in the short, medium and long term;

XXXIX. Prevention: Set of actions and mechanisms implemented in advance of the the occurrence of disruptive agents, with the aim of knowing the hazards or risks, identifying, removing or reducing them; avoiding or mitigating their destructive impact on people, goods, infrastructure, as well as anticipating social processes of building the same;

XL. Forecast: Awareness of the risks that can be caused and the needs to address them through the stages of risk identification, prevention, mitigation, preparedness, emergency care, recovery and reconstruction;

XLI. Internal Protection Program Civil: It is an instrument of planning and operation, limited to the scope of a dependency, entity, institution or agency of the public, private or social sector; which is composed by the operational plan for the Internal Unit of Civil Protection, the plan for the continuity of operations and the contingency plan, and it is intended to mitigate the risks identified previously and to define preventive and response actions to be in a position to address the eventuality of an emergency or disaster;

XLII. National Program: The National Civil Protection Program;

XLIII. Civil Protection: It is the action of solidarity and participation, which in consideration the risks of natural or anthropic origin as well as the adverse effects of the disruptive agents, provides for the coordination and consultation of the public, private and social sectors within the framework of the National System, in order to create a whole of provisions, plans, programmes, strategies, mechanisms and resources to ensure that the measures and actions necessary to safeguard the life, integrity and health of the population, as well as the health of the population, are implemented in a responsible manner, and by giving priority to the Integral Risk Management and the Continuity of Operations. their assets; infrastructure, production plant and environment;

XLIV. Reconstruction: The transient action oriented to reach the environment social and economic normality that prevailed among the population before suffering the effects produced by a disruptive agent in a given space or jurisdiction. This process should seek as far as possible the reduction of existing risks, ensuring the non-generation of new risks and improving pre-existing conditions for this;

XLV. Recovery: Process that starts during the emergency, consisting of actions aimed at returning to normal from the affected community;

XLVI. Risk Reduction: Preventive intervention of individuals, institutions, and communities that allow us to eliminate or reduce, through preparedness and mitigation actions, the adverse impact of disasters. It provides for the identification of risks and the analysis of vulnerabilities, resilience and response capabilities, the development of a culture of civil protection, public engagement and the development of an institutional framework, the implementation of measures to protect the environment, land use and urban planning, protection of critical infrastructure, generation of alliances and development of financial instruments and risk transfer, and the development of alerting;

XLVII. Temporary Shelter: Physical installation enabled to temporarily provide protection and welfare for persons who do not have immediate access to a safe room in the event of imminent risk, emergency, disaster or disaster;

XLVIII. Resilience: It is the capacity of a potentially life-threatening system, community, or society exposed to a danger to resist, assimilate, adapt and recover from its effects in the short term and efficiently, through the preservation and restoration of its basic and functional structures, achieving better future protection and improving risk mitigation measures;

XLIX. Risk: Damage or probable loss on an affecting agent, result of interaction between their vulnerability and the presence of a disruptive agent;

L.            Imminent risk: The risk which, according to the opinion of a specialised technical body, must consider immediate action under conditions or high probability of the effects of the adverse on an affable agent;

LI.          Secretariat: The Government Secretariat of the Federal Government;

LII. Insurance: Risk Transfer and Administration Instrument;

LIII. Drill: Representation using a simulation of response actions previously planned for the purpose of observing, testing and correcting an effective response to possible real emergency or disaster situations. Involves the mounting of a scenario on specific ground, designed from the identification and analysis of risks and the vulnerability of the affectable systems;

LIV. National System: The National Civil Protection System;

LV. Disaster: Critical and harmful situation generated by the incident of one or more disruptive phenomena in a building or facility affecting its population and equipment, with possible affectation to surrounding facilities;

LVI. Internal Protection Unit Civil: The regulatory and operational body responsible for developing and directing civil protection actions, as well as developing, updating, operating and monitoring the Internal Civil Protection Program in the fixed and mobile buildings and installations of a dependency, institution or entity belonging to the public, private and social sectors; also known as the Institutional Civil Protection Brigades;

LVII. Protection Units Civil: The bodies of the public administration of the federative, municipal or delegation entities, responsible for the organization, coordination and operation of the National System, in their territorial demarcation;

LVIII. Vulnerability: Susceptibility or propensity of an agent that affects damage or loss in the presence of a disruptive agent, determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors;

LIX. Disaster Zone: Territorial space determined in time by the declaration (a) the competent authority, by virtue of the mismatch suffered in its social structure, preventing the normal performance of the activities of the community. It can involve the exercise of public resources through the Disaster Fund;

LX. Risk Zone: Determined territorial space in which the probability exists that damage occurs, caused by a disruptive phenomenon, and

LXI. Serious Risk Zone: Human settlement that is within a zone of serious risk, caused by a possible disruptive phenomenon.

Article 3. All three levels of government will try at all times to make programs and strategies aimed at strengthening organizational and The functioning of civil protection institutions is underpinned by a comprehensive risk management approach.

Article 4. Public policies on civil protection will be closed to the National Development Plan and the National Civil Protection Program, identifying for this the following priorities:

I. Identification and analysis of risks as a livelihood for implementing measures prevention and mitigation;

II. Promoting a culture of social responsibility aimed at civil protection with emphasis in the prevention and self-protection of the risks and hazards posed by disruptive agents and their vulnerability;

III. Obligation of the State in its three government orders, to reduce the risks to the affectable agents and carry out the necessary actions for the identification and recognition of the vulnerability of the areas under their jurisdiction;

IV. The promotion of social participation to create resilient communities, and therefore capable to resist the negative effects of disasters, through joint action, and to recover their productive, economic and social activities in the shortest possible time;

V. Incorporation of comprehensive risk management as a fundamental aspect of planning and programming the country's development and management to reverse the risk-generation process;

VI. The establishment of a competency certification system, which guarantees a profile adequate in the personnel responsible for civil protection in the three government orders, and

VII. Knowledge and adaptation to climate change, and in general to the consequences and effects of global warming caused by human beings and the application of technologies.

Article 5. Civil protection authorities, as listed in Article 27 of this Act, shall act on the basis of the following principles:

I. Priority in protecting people's lives, health, and integrity;

II. Immediate, fairness, professionalism, effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of aid and Delivery of resources to the population in case of emergency or disaster;

III. Subsidiarity, complementarity, mainstreaming and proportionality in the functions assigned to the various instances of the government;

IV. Advertising and social participation in all phases of civil protection, but particularly in prevention;

V. Establishment and development of a culture of civil protection, with emphasis on prevention in the general population;

VI. Legality, control, effectiveness, rationality, equity, transparency and accountability in the administration of public resources;

VII. Corresponsibility between society and government, and

VIII. Honours and respect for human rights.

Article 6. The coordination and implementation of this Law will be done with absolute respect for the constitutional and legal powers of the authorities and institutions which are involved in the National System.

Chapter II

Civil Protection

Article 7. Corresponds to the Federal Executive on Civil Protection:

I. Ensure the proper functioning of the National System and dictate general guidelines to coordinate civil protection work for the benefit of the population, its assets and environment, inducing and conducting the participation of the different sectors and groups of society in the framework of Comprehensive Risk Management;

II. Promote the incorporation of Comprehensive Risk Management in local and regional development, by establishing strategies and policies based on risk analysis, in order to avoid the construction of future risks and the carrying out of intervention actions to reduce existing risks;

III. Contemplate, in the Federation of Federation of Every Exercise Budget project Fiscal, resources for the optimal functioning and operation of the Financial Instruments of Risk Management referred to the Federal Law of Budget and Accountability, in order to promote and support the realization of actions of preventive order, as well as those aimed at the aid of the population in an emergency situation, such as the care of damage caused by natural disasters;

IV. Issue emergency declarations or disaster of natural origin, in the established terms in this Law and in administrative normativity;

V. Dispose the use and destination of the resources of the management financial instruments risks, in accordance with the provisions of administrative regulations in this field;

VI. Promote, in the event of natural disasters, the realization of actions aimed at a comprehensive risk transfer strategy, through tools such as the identification of the infrastructure to ensure, risk analysis, measures for its reduction and the definition of the retention and insurance, among others;

VII. Dictate general guidelines on civil protection to induce and encourage The principle of Integral Risk Management and Continuity of Operations is a public policy value and a cross-cutting task to carry out preventive actions, with special emphasis on those that have a relationship direct with health, education, territorial planning, Regional planning, conservation and employment of natural resources, governance and security;

VIII. Vigil, through the competent authorities and dependencies and in accordance with the provisions (a) applicable laws, which do not authorise population centres in areas of risk and, if necessary, notify the competent authorities of their eviction, as well as the dispossession of the responsibilities in which they are responsible for the failure to act. and complacency against such irregularities, and

IX. Promote to the holders of the Executive and Legislative Powers of the entities federative, the approval of the regulatory framework and the functional structures of civil protection.

Article 8. The Legislative and Judicial Powers of the Union, the federal entities, the municipalities, the delegations, the decentralized agencies, the Autonomous constitutional bodies and the private and social sectors, as well as the general population, should contribute to ensure that civil protection actions are carried out in a coordinated and effective manner.

Article 9. The organization and the provision of civil protection public policy correspond to the State who must perform them in the terms of this Law and of its Regulation, through the federation, the states, the Federal District, the municipalities and the delegations, in their respective areas of competence.

The Secretariat should promote the interaction of civil protection with the information processes, in order to promote actions for the learning and practice of safe conduct, through the use of official time in electronic media.

Article 10. Integral Risk Management considers, among others, the following anticipated phases to the occurrence of a disruptive agent:

I. Knowledge of the origin and nature of the risks, in addition to the construction processes social of the same;

II. Identification of hazards, vulnerabilities and risks, as well as their scenarios;

III. Analysis and evaluation of possible effects;

IV. Review of controls for impact mitigation;

V. Actions and mechanisms for risk prevention and mitigation;

VI. Developing greater understanding and awareness of risks, and

VII. Strengthening the resilience of society.

Article 11. For individuals or public agencies to be able to engage in the activity of counseling, training, evaluation, elaboration of internal programs of civil protection, continuity of operations and studies of vulnerability and risks in the field of civil protection, shall have the registration issued by the competent authority of civil protection, in accordance with the guidelines established in the Regulation of this Law.

Registration will be mandatory and will allow individuals or public agencies referred to in the preceding paragraph, to issue the co-responsibility letter that is required for the approval of internal and special civil protection programmes.

Article 12. The distinctive emblem of civil protection in the country must contain that adopted at the international level, in accordance with the institutional image that define in the Regulation and will only be used by the staff and institutions authorised in the terms of the Regulation itself.

Article 13. The electronic and written mass media, when forming part of the National System, will collaborate with the authorities according to the agreements that are concluded on the subject, directing and disseminating timely and veraciously, information on civil protection and the Comprehensive Risk Management.

The concertation agreements will contain the actions of the comprehensive risk management and their incorporation into the elaboration of plans, programs and recommendations, as well as in the design and transmission of public information on civil protection.

Chapter III

Of The National Civil Protection System

Article 14. The National System is an organic and articulated set of structures, functional relationships, methods, norms, instances, principles, instruments, policies, procedures, services and actions, which correspond to the agencies and entities of the public sector to each other, with the organizations of the various voluntary, social, private and legislative branches, Executive and Judicial, of the constitutional bodies self-employed persons, of the federal authorities, of the municipalities and of the delegations, in order to carry out coordinated actions in the field of civil protection.

Article 15. The general objective of the National System is to protect the person and society and their environment in the event of the risks and dangers that represent disruptive agents and vulnerability in the short, medium or long term, caused by natural or anthropogenic phenomena, through comprehensive risk management and the promotion of adaptive capacity, aid and resetting in the population.

Article 16. The National System is integrated by all agencies and entities of the federal public administration, by the protection systems civil society organisations, their municipalities and the delegations; by the voluntary groups, neighbourhood and civil society organisations, the fire brigade, as well as by representatives of the private and social sectors, communication and research, education and training centres technological development.

Members of the National System must share with the competent authority that they request and justify their usefulness, the information of a technical nature, whether printed, electronic or in real time relating to systems and/or networks for alert, detection, monitoring, forecasting and measurement of risks.

Article 17. The governors of the states, the head of government of the Federal District, the municipal presidents, and the delegates of the Federal District, have responsibility for the integration and functioning of civil protection systems within their jurisdiction, in accordance with the provisions of this Law and the relevant local legislation.

Likewise, in each of its areas, they will ensure the proper functioning of the councils and civil protection units, promoting to be constituted, with a level not less than Directorate General, preferably and in accordance with applicable law, as bodies with administrative, financial, operational and management autonomy, dependent on the secretariat of the government, the secretariat of the city council, and the delegations, respectively.

Those public servants who carry out a responsibility in the State, Municipal and Delegation of Civil Protection Units must have certification of competence issued by one of the institutions registered at the National School.

State civil protection units, based on local laws and regulations, will lead to a strategic distribution of tasks among the centers. Regional and local authorities with criteria based on the location of the available risks, needs and resources.

On the national denomination of the state, municipal, Federal District, and Delegations units, this law will be available by virtue of this Law. be called the State Civil Protection Coordination of the State or, where appropriate, the Municipal Civil Protection Coordination.

Article 18. It is the responsibility of the governments of the states and the Federal District government, in accordance with their budgetary availability, to hire insurance and other risk management and transfer instruments for the coverage of damage caused by a natural disaster in the assets and infrastructure of its federal entities.

In order to comply with this obligation, federal entities may request that the management and risk transfer instruments they employ be supplemented with the Federal Risk Management Financial Instruments as set out in the guidelines for such an effect.

To access the supports referred to in the previous paragraph, the state governments will have to prove that in the process of contracting the selected instrument comply with the principles of economy, efficiency, efficiency, impartiality, honesty and transparency that ensure the best conditions for the State.

Article 19. The executive coordination of the National System will fall to the secretariat through the National Coordination, which has the the following in the field of civil protection:

I. Ensuring the proper functioning of the National System through monitoring and the coordination of civil protection actions carried out by the various government orders, through the appropriate comprehensive management of the risks, incorporating the active and committed participation of the society, both individually and in the collective;

II. Verify progress on National Program compliance;

III. Propose policies and strategies for the development of internal, special, and Regional Civil Protection;

IV. Promote and support the creation of the instances, mechanisms, instruments and procedures of operational, service and logistical technical character to prevent and address the occurrence of a risk or danger posed by disruptive agents and vulnerability;

V. Research, study and assess risks, hazards and vulnerabilities, integrating and expanding knowledge of such events in coordination with responsible dependencies;

VI. Spread between the corresponding authorities and the general population the work it carries out, as well as any public information that tends to generate, develop and consolidate a national culture in the field, with the corresponding reservations regarding transparency and national security;

VII. Advising and supporting the governments of the federative entities, in coordination with the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, in the analysis and selection of the model required for the transfer of risks referred to in Article 18 of this Law;

VIII. Advising and supporting the governments of the federative entities in the analysis and selection the model required for the transfer of risks referred to in Article 19 of this Law, for which it may request resources from financial instruments;

IX. Instrumentation and if any, operate detection, monitoring, forecasting and systems networks alerting, in coordination with the responsible agencies and incorporating the efforts of other public or private monitoring networks;

X. Subscribe to conventions on civil protection and risk management at national level and international, in coordination with the competent authorities in the field;

XI. Issue and publish emergency and natural disaster declarations;

XII. Promote the formation of funds of federal entities for prevention and care of emergencies and natural disasters;

XIII. Subscribe to administrative collaboration agreements with federal entities in the field Emergency and disaster prevention and care;

XIV. Advising federal entities, Federal District government, and dependencies (federal) in the implementation of the financial instruments for risk management;

XV. Issue Mexican Official Rules on Civil Protection;

XVI. Manage to the appropriate authorities, incorporation and extension of content Civil protection with an Integrated Risk Management approach in the National Educational System at all levels, from preschool, primary and secondary education to higher levels;

XVII. To foster in the population a culture of civil protection that provides tools that in a given moment will enable you to safeguard your life, your possessions and your environment in the face of the risks arising from natural and human phenomena. For this task, the support of civil society institutions and organizations that have a competency certification and be trained for this activity should be considered;

XVIII. Promote, in conjunction with the moral people, the constitution of tenuous mechanisms to obtain resources to promote a culture of civil protection and, where appropriate, to assist in the management of risks;

XIX. Promote the establishment of basic security programs by regions and entities federative, to deal with recurring or unforeseen disruptive agents;

XX. Promote among the competent instances of the different governance orders, the generation information on civil protection, which for its timeliness, quality and quantity strengthens decision-making processes;

XXI. Promote the instrumentation of a Risk Information Subsystem, Hazards and Vulnerabilities to keep the population informed in a timely manner;

XXII. Monitor, through CENAPRED, that the atlas be performed and updated national risks, as well as those relating to federal entities, municipalities and delegations;

The Atlas integrates with information at the national, state, Federal District, and municipal level delegational. It consists of databases, geographic information systems, and tools for the analysis and simulation of scenarios, as well as the estimation of disaster losses. Due to the dynamic nature of the risk, it should be maintained as a permanent update instrument.

Risk atlas constitute the reference framework for the development of policies and programmes in all stages of Comprehensive Risk Management;

XXIII. Coordinate support and advice to public administration agencies and agencies The European Council, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, the institutions of a social and private nature;

XXIV. Promote and support the training of Mexican professionals, specialists and technicians in the field of civil protection;

XXV. Promote among the governments of the federative entities, municipalities and delegations the creation and construction of infrastructure and the distribution of civil protection equipment, with a view to strengthening the risk management tools;

XXVI. Manage to the Foreign Relations Secretariat and the authorities of other countries, the receiving and sending international support;

XXVII. Interchanging with other countries and with international organizations, knowledge, experiences technical and scientific cooperation to strengthen civil protection through the incorporation of progress in the field, with the participation of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs;

XXVIII. Promote that the governments of the federative entities and the municipalities or delegations, as appropriate, develop and maintain updated their respective civil protection programmes and form part of their development plans;

XXIX. Propose, in coordination with the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit, the models of Insurance procurement and risk management financial instruments, which ensure that the Federation is best placed in terms of price, quality, financing, opportunity and other relevant circumstances, and

XXX. The others that point to the applicable orders or are attributed by the President or the National Council within the sphere of its faculties.

Article 20. For the best performance of its functions, the National Coordination may integrate Inter-Institutional Committees for the different agents (b) Disturbing, who will support the authorities in the diagnosis and decision-making in risk management, in order to reduce as much as possible the possible damage that they could generate. These Inter-Institutional Committees shall be technically supported by the Scientific Advisory Committees or other technical bodies in accordance with the National System Organization Manual.

In the case of the Astronomical Phenomena, the National Coordination of Civil Protection, the National Center for Disaster Prevention and the Mexican Space Agency, work jointly and within the framework of their powers, in order to create and promote public policies on the prevention or care of disasters caused by objects from outer space.

Likewise, the National Civil Protection System will contribute to the necessary actions of civil protection, in a coordinated and effective manner, between the Federal Government, the federal authorities, the Federal District Government, the municipalities, the delegations, the private and social sectors, as well as the general population, in the face of the specific hazard or risk arising from a spatial disruptive agent.

Article 21. In an emergency situation, the aid to the population must be a priority function of civil protection, so the (a) coordination shall take place jointly and in an orderly manner, in the terms of this Law and the other applicable provisions. It will also be made of the knowledge of the Secretariat of National Defense and the Secretariat of the Navy to implement the Plan of Aid to the Civil Population in the event of disasters and the General Plan of Aid to the Civil Population, respectively.

For the purpose of initiating emergency relief activities, the first authority to take knowledge of it must proceed with immediate delivery. to help and report as soon as possible to specialised civil protection bodies.

The Regulation of this Law and the other administrative provisions in the field will establish the cases in which a specialized intervention is required for the attention to an emergency or disaster.

The first instance of specialized action, corresponds to the Internal Units of Civil Protection of each public or private facility, as well as to the authority municipal or delegational person who is aware of the emergency situation. In addition, the exercise of the powers of surveillance and enforcement of security measures shall be the responsibility of the municipal or civil protection delegation in the first instance.

In case the emergency or disaster exceeds the response capacity of the municipality or delegation, it will go to the state or the corresponding Federal District, in the terms of the applicable legislation. If this is not sufficient, the appropriate federal authorities shall be informed, acting in accordance with the programmes established for this purpose, in the terms of this Law and the other applicable legal provisions.

In risk management actions, priority will be given to vulnerable social groups and scarce economic resources.

Article 22. The policies, guidelines and coordination actions between the federation, the federative entities, the municipalities and the delegations, will be carried out (a) by means of the conclusion of coordination agreements, in the terms of the applicable regulations, or on the basis of the agreements and resolutions to be taken at the National Council and the other coordination bodies, with full respect for the autonomy of the federative entities and the municipalities.

Article 23. The National Center is the technical-scientific institution of the National Coordination of Civil Protection in charge of creating, managing and promoting public policies on disaster prevention and risk reduction through research, monitoring, training and dissemination. It has among its powers, technical support to the National System, as well as the integration of the National Atlas of Risks, the conduct of the National School of Civil Protection, the coordination of monitoring and alerting of disturbing phenomena and promote the strengthening of the resilience of society as a whole.

Article 24. The National Center for Civil Protection Communication and Operation, is the operational instance of communication, alerting, information, support permanent and liaison among the members of the National System, in the tasks of preparation, assistance and recovery; likewise, it is charged with integrating systems, equipment, documents and other instruments that contribute to facilitate the members of the National System, timely and appropriate decision making.

The Secretariat through the National Coordination will determine the actions and measures necessary for this Center to count at all times under the conditions, (a) infrastructure and updated information, enabling its optimal operation, in terms that are determined in the Regulation.

Article 25. The relevant authorities in your field of competence will carry out projects, studies and investments necessary to expand and modernize the coverage of the measurement systems of the various natural and anthropogenic disruptive phenomena, aimed at preventing life-threatening risks that may cause harm to the population.

Chapter IV

Of The National Civil Protection Council

Article 26. The National Council is a government advisory body on civil protection. Their attributions are as follows:

I. Propose the approval of the National Civil Protection Program and monitor compliance with your goals and goals;

II. Propose the establishment of comprehensive, systematic, public policy and instruments continuous and evaluable, with a view to meeting the objectives and objectives of civil protection;

III. Propose the issuance of agreements and general resolutions, for the operation of the System National;

IV. Fungir as a consultative and coordinating body for actions of the federal government and the federative entities to convene, agree, induce and integrate the activities of the various participants and stakeholders in the field, in order to ensure the achievement of the objective of the National System;

V. Promote the effective coordination of the instances that integrate the National System and give monitoring of actions to be established for this purpose;

VI. Propose the establishment of measures to link the national system with systems State and municipal civil protection bodies;

VII. Encourage the committed and co-responsible participation of all sectors of society, in the formulation and implementation of programmes aimed at meeting the needs of civil protection in the national territory;

VIII. Call, coordinate and harmonize, with full respect for their respective sovereignties, the participation of the federative entities and through them, of the municipalities, the delegations and of the various organized local social groups, in the definition and execution of the actions to be carried out in the field of protection civil;

IX. Propose to the Secretariat of Foreign Relations, the criteria for the celebration and the compliance with international agreements in the field of civil protection;

X. Propose the establishment of international cooperation and aid modalities in disaster cases, in agreement with the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs and in the terms set out in the Regulation;

XI. Promote study, research and training in civil protection, identifying their problems and trends, and proposing the rules and programs that allow their solution;

XII. Promote the development and consolidation of a national civil protection culture;

XIII. Create working groups for support of their functions, and

XIV. Other than those that are set forth in other normative provisions and those that are required for the functioning of the National System.

Article 27. The National Council will be composed of the President of the Republic, who will preside over him and the heads of the Secretaries of State. Governors of the States, the Head of Government of the Federal District, who will be able to be filled by public servants who hold positions with an immediate lower level, and the Board of Directors of the Civil Protection Commission of the Senate and Of Members. In the case of the President of the Republic, the Secretary of the Interior will supply him, who in turn will be replaced by the National Coordinator for Civil Protection.

The National Council will be able to advise on the civil protection decision-making of the Advisory Council on the terms set out in the Rules of Procedure.

The members of the Advisory Council may be called to the sessions of the National Council, at the invitation of the Executive Secretary.

Article 28. The Secretary of Government will be the Executive Secretary of the National Council. The Technical Secretary will be the National Coordinator for Civil Protection.

Article 29. The National Council will be held in full at least once a year and extraordinarily when convened by the President of the Council. Republic. Corresponds to the Executive Secretary:

I. Present to the consideration of the National Council the Report of the Advancement of the Program National;

II. Concerting with the legislative and judicial powers of the Union, as well as with the authorities of Federal entities and voluntary, private and social organizations are complying with the National Program;

III. Providing the general population with the public information that is generated in Civil protection related to self-protection and self-care;

IV. Run and follow up on the agreements and resolutions of the National Council and its President;

V. Compiling the agreements that are made in the National Council, bringing the file of these and the legal instruments that derive and provide evidence of such instruments;

VI. Report periodically to the National Council and its President of its activities;

VII. Celebrate coordination, collaboration, and concertation agreements required for the compliance with the purposes of the National System;

VIII. Verify compliance with the provisions of this Law, the general conventions and specific provisions, as well as the other applicable provisions and inform the National Council thereof;

IX. Submit to the National Council the reports regarding the follow-up of the agreements and resolutions to be adopted in your breast;

X. Collaborate with the institutions that integrate the National System, to strengthen and efficient coordination mechanisms;

XI. Coassist with the Federation's Higher Audit and other audit bodies, by providing the information with which you count on the exercise of the resources of the federal aid funds, as well as the enforcement of this Act;

XII. Monitor, in coordination with the other competent instances, the correct application of the resources of the funds by the federative entities and by the municipalities and delegations, and

XIII. The others granted to you by this Law and other applicable provisions, as well as entrusts the National Council or its President.

Article 30. Corresponds to the Technical Secretary:

I. Substitute the executive secretary in their absences;

II. To elaborate and submit to the consideration of the executive secretary, the draft calendar of meetings of the National Council and the draft agenda for each session, so that they are submitted to the approval of the National Council at the time;

III. Coordinate the realization of specific jobs and actions to be determined by the Council National;

IV. Coordinate the conduct of specialized studies on civil protection matters;

V. Verify that the programs, strategies, actions, and policies that are adopted by the entities They are coordinated with the National System and comply with the general guidelines and agreements that the National Council dictates;

VI. Prepare the National Civil Protection Program compliance assessment, and

VII. The other functions that are indicated in the Regulations of this Law or that are entrusted to you by the President or the Executive Secretary of the National Council.

Article 31. The National Coordination of Civil Protection, for budgetary purposes, will depend on the budget of the Secretariat of the Interior, which will include in each financial year the resources necessary for the Coordination to carry out its tasks and objectives.

Chapter V

From The National Emergency Committee

Article 32. The National Committee is the mechanism for coordinating actions in emergency and disaster situations caused by the presence of disruptive agents that put the population, property and environment at risk, without prejudice to the Article 21 of this Law and in accordance with the Manual of Organization and Operation of the National System and in the terms established in the Regulations.

Article 33. The National Committee shall be made up of the holders or a representative of the agencies and entities of the federal public administration, with rank not less than that of a director general or equivalent, who, according to his or her specialty, assumes the responsibility of advising, supporting and contributing, within its functions, programs, emergency plans and its human and material resources, to the System National, as well as by the representative who is appointed by the the governors of the affected states or the head of the Federal District government, if any.

El Nacional] The National Committee will be chaired by the Secretary of the Interior, or in his absence by the head of the National Coordination, who will be able to convene in extraordinary form when extreme emergency or disaster situations arise, or when the likelihood of disruption by a disruptive agent is very high, putting large population and infrastructure centres at imminent risk. country.

The Technical Secretariat of the National Committee will fall to the National Coordination Holder or the public servant designated for the purpose, and must have a level of Director-General's or its equivalent.

The coordination schemes of this committee will be specified in the Regulation.

Article 34. The National Committee will have the following attributions:

I. Analyze the emergency or disaster situation affecting the country in order to assess the scope the impact and make the necessary recommendations to protect the population, its assets and its environment;

II. Determine the urgent measures to be put in place to address the situation, as well as the indispensable resources for this;

III. Providing the institutional programs, the material and financial means necessary to help, recovery, and reconstruction actions;

IV. To monitor compliance with agreed actions and to follow up on the situation emergency or disaster, until it has been superseded, and

V. Issue joint newsletters and releases to the media and public in general.

Chapter VI

Of Civil Protection Programs

Article 35. The National Program, in the framework of the National Development Plan, is the set of objectives, policies, strategies, lines of action and goals for comply with the objective of the National System, as provided by the Law of Planning.

Article 36. The National Program, will be based on the principles established by this Law, the Law of Planning, the Federal Law of Transparency and Access to Public information and other regulations regarding planning, transparency and accountability.

Article 37. In the elaboration of the civil protection programs of the federative entities, municipalities and delegations, the general lines should be considered establish the National Program, as well as the stages considered in the Comprehensive Risk Management and as established by local regulations in the field of planning.

Article 38. The Special Programs of Civil Protection are the instrument of planning and operation that is implemented with the participation of various agencies and institutions, in the face of a specific danger or risk derived from an agent (a) Disturbing in a given area or region, involving specific and vulnerable population groups, and that due to the foreseeable characteristics thereof, allow for adequate planning time, based on the stages considered in the Comprehensive Risk Management.

Article 39. The Internal Civil Protection Program is carried out in each of the buildings to mitigate the risks previously identified and to be in conditions to address the eventuality of any emergency or disaster.

For the implementation of the Internal Civil Protection Program, each instance referred to in the following article must create an organizational structure. specifies the Internal Civil Protection Unit to develop, update, operate and monitor this instrument centrally and in each of its buildings.

For the case of hospital units, in the preparation of the internal program, the guidelines established in the Hospital Program should be taken into consideration. Secure.

Article 40. The fixed and mobile buildings and installations of the dependencies, entities, institutions, bodies, industries or companies belonging to the public, private and social sectors, as referred to in the Regulation of this Law, must have an Internal Civil Protection Program.

This program must be prepared, updated, operated and monitored by the Internal Civil Protection Unit, which may be advised by a natural or moral person who has the relevant updated record, in accordance with what is set out in Article 11 of this Act.

The content and specifications of this type of program will be specified in the Regulation.

Chapter VII

From the Culture of Civil Protection

Article 41. Federal authorities, federal authorities, Federal District, municipal and delegational authorities will promote culture in the field of civil protection among the population, through their individual and collective participation.

The authorities in this field will establish appropriate mechanisms for society to participate in the planning and supervision of civil protection, in the terms of this Law, its Rules of Procedure and the other applicable laws.

The vulnerable and vulnerable population has the right to be informed of this and to have the appropriate means of opinion and participation in the management of the risk.

Article 42. It is up to the Secretariat to dictate general guidelines and to design ways to induce and lead to the formation of a culture of protection. civil.

Article 43. In order to promote such culture, the corresponding authorities within their respective fields of competence shall:

I. Encourage civil protection activities;

II. To incorporate thematic civil protection content at all levels of public education and private, considering it as a mandatory subject;

III. Concrete the establishment of educational programs at different academic levels, which address the issue of civil protection and Comprehensive Risk Management in its breadth;

IV. Print programs aimed at the general population that allows you to know clearly prevention and self-protection mechanisms;

V. Develop, structure, and promote broadcast campaigns on topics in your competition related to civil protection, and

VI. Promote the conclusion of agreements with the public, social, private and academic sectors with the purpose of disseminating the culture of civil protection.

Article 44. The members of the National System will promote mechanisms to motivate and facilitate the participation of their dependencies in an active, real and concrete way. and responsible for specific actions that reflect a culture of prevention in civil protection.

Article 45. The relevant authorities in their field of competence will carry out projects, studies and investments necessary to expand and modernize the coverage of the measurement systems of the various disruptive agents, aimed at preventing life-threatening risks and which may cause irreversible damage to the population.

Chapter VIII

From the Profession of Civil Protection

Article 46. The professionalization of the members of the National System will be permanent and will aim to achieve a better and more effective delivery of the service, as well as the integral development of its elements through the institutionalization of a civil service of career when it comes to public servants of the three orders of government, in accordance with what is established in the Law of the matter.

Article 47. For the purposes of the preceding article, each federative entity and each municipality shall be subject to the standard that exists in the field of civil service. In the case of a career or a career, in which income, training, permanence, promotion, evaluation and all aspects that are considered relevant to the professionalization and stimuli to the members of the National System should be regulated, in accordance with its own characteristics, and the requirements of the society and the State.

In case of no such normativity, it will be promoted before the competent authorities, through the National Coordination, that a civil system of race is created for public servants responsible for civil protection.

Article 48. The corresponding normativity shall specify and detail all items concerning the positions of command and hierarchies of the State Units, Municipal and Civil Protection Delegates.

Chapter IX

From the National School of Civil Protection, Training, Accreditation and Certification

Article 49. The National School of Civil Protection is an instance of the National Coordination through the CENAPRED, oriented to the training systematic and institutionalized human capital, through the training, updating and specialization of theoretical and practical subjects.

It will have the role of accreditation and certification of the capabilities of natural and moral people who offer and commercialize counseling and training services in the issues related to civil protection, without prejudice to other instances of accreditation and certification within the national education system.

Article 50. The structure, organization and operation of the National School of Civil Protection shall be specified in the normative provisions for this purpose. issue the National Coordination.

Chapter X

From The Volunteer Groups

Article 51. To develop activities specialized in civil protection material, such as rescue and relief, fire fighting, administration The National and Regional Voluntary Groups will have to process their registration with the Secretariat; state, municipal, and national delegations, as established by the respective local legislation.

The regulatory provisions and local orders will specifically establish the procedures and procedures for obtaining the relevant records, as well as as the measures to be taken to ensure that these groups are involved in ensuring the safety of their members.

Article 52. They are the rights and obligations of the Volunteer Groups:

I. Dispose of the official recognition after it has been recorded;

II. Where appropriate, receive information and training, and

III. Coordinate with the appropriate civil protection authorities.

Article 53. People who wish to perform rescue and relief work must be integrated or preferably constituted in voluntary groups.

Those who do not wish to join a voluntary group may register individually in the corresponding civil protection units, specifying their activity, trade or profession, as well as its speciality applicable to civil protection tasks.

Chapter XI

From the National Network of Community Brigadists

Article 54. The National Network of Community Brigadists is an organized, volunteer-trained structure to train and work in coordination. with civil protection authorities to deal with risks caused by the various disruptive agents in their environment.

Article 55. Community Brigadists are volunteers trained in matters related to civil protection, which have been registered with the National Network of Community Brigadists, under the coordination and supervision of civil protection authorities in your community to support these in tasks and activities such as alerting, evacuation, application of preventive measures and attention to temporary shelters, among others.

Article 56. The Secretariat will coordinate the operation of the National Network of Community Brigadists. For this purpose, the State, Municipal and Delegation of Civil Protection Units in the federal entities, should promote in the framework of their competencies, the training, organization and preparation of the volunteers who wish Community brigade members may constitute municipal, state or regional networks of community brigade members, and carry out registration procedures in the National Network of Community Brigadists in the face of National Coordination.

Chapter XII

Of Risk Management Financial Instruments

Article 57. It is up to the Secretariat, through the National Coordination, to advise the federal entities, the Federal District Government, and federal dependencies on the application of the financial instruments of Risk Management.

Article 58. To access the resources of the Risk Management Financial Instruments, it must be:

I. Submit to the Secretariat an application signed by the holder of the federal public authority, or, of the Executive Branch in the case of a federal entity, in accordance with the requirements and terms provided for in the respective administrative regulations;

II. The express manifestation that duplicities will be avoided with other programs and sources financing, and

III. For federal entities in emergency and/or disaster situations, the express manifestation that circumstances have exceeded their operational and financial capacity to address the contingency alone.

Article 59. The declaration of emergency is the act by which the Secretariat recognizes that one or more municipalities or delegations of one or more entities Federativas are faced with the imminence, high probability or presence of an abnormal situation generated by a disruptive natural agent and therefore it is necessary to provide immediate assistance to the population whose safety and integrity is at risk.

Article 60. The natural disaster declaration is the act by which the Secretariat recognizes the presence of a severe disruptive natural agent in certain municipalities or delegations of one or more federative entities, whose damages exceed the local financial and operational capacity for their attention, for the purposes of being able to access resources from the financial instrument for disaster care natural.

In the case of natural disaster declarations, they may also be requested by the heads of the federal public authorities, so that they can address the damage to the infrastructure, assets and federal assets in charge.

Article 61. The declaratory shall be published in the Official Journal of the Federation, without prejudice to their dissemination through other means of information.

The emergency declaration may be published in that broadcast organ after issue, without affecting its validity and effects.

Article 62. The Federal Executive, through the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit, in terms of the Federal Budget and Accountability Act, provide financial resources for the timely attention of emergency and disaster situations, so in case the available resources have been exhausted, budgetary adjustments will be made for the emerging attention of the population and the reconstruction of the strategic infrastructure.

Article 63. Administrative provisions, will regulate procedures, financing formulas and co-financing and other requirements for access and financial instruments for risk management instruments, which are set up for this purpose. As regards the formulation and implementation of the administrative provisions, the principles laid down in Article 5 shall be complied with.

The unjustified withholding of such resources by the federal public servants involved in the access procedure will be sanctioned in accordance with the Federal Law on Administrative Responsibility of Public Servants.

When the resources under the risk management financial instruments are authorized, the Secretariat shall report on a quarterly basis its use and destination to the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit, for this to include in the quarterly reports on the economic situation, public finances and public debt.

The application, erogation, regulation, justification, verification, accountability and transparency of the resources authorized in the financial instruments of risk management shall be subject to the rules and other applicable provisions which shall ensure the principles of honesty, effectiveness and efficiency in the use of resources.

Dependencies and federal entities will make it easier for the Civil Service to directly or, where appropriate, through the internal control bodies in the Dependencies and Federal entities may, at any time, according to their field of competence, inspection, audit and surveillance of such resources, including the programmatic-budgetary review and the physical inspection of works and actions supported with federal resources, as well as receiving, taking turns and giving follow up complaints and complaints about their handling.

The above, without prejudice to actions that fall within the scope of your competence to the Higher Audit of the Federation.

Article 64. In the face of the imminence or high probability of a disruptive natural agent occurring that puts human life at risk and when the speed of action of the National System is essential, the Secretariat may issue an emergency declaration, in order to be able to provide immediately the necessary and urgent supports for the population susceptible to being affected.

Administrative normativity shall determine the cases in which an emergency declaration may be issued due to imminence or high probability, as well as the support that may be granted. be provided by the financial instrument of risk management established for emergency care.

The authorisation of the emergency declaration must not take more than 5 days and the supply of the authorised inputs must start the day after the authorisation. corresponding.

Article 65. The anthropogenic phenomena are in essence caused by human activity and not by a natural phenomenon. They generate a framework of civil liability, so they are not the responsibility of the Financial Instruments of Risk Management provided for in this Law.

Such phenomena find responsibility for their attention, regulation and supervision in the framework of the competencies established by local laws to entities federative, municipalities or delegations, and at the federal level, through federal public authorities, as appropriate.

The National Coordination and Civil Protection Units of the federative entities, municipalities and delegations, will promote with the various instances of the System National, to develop special programs aimed at reducing or mitigating anthropogenic risks, as well as attention to the population in case of contingencies arising from such phenomena.

Chapter XIII

From the Civil Protection Fund

Article 66. Each federal entity will create and administer a State Civil Protection Fund, the purpose of which will be to promote training, equipment and systematization of the Civil Protection Units of the federal entities, municipalities and delegations.

Article 67. The State Civil Protection Funds shall be integrated through the resources provided by the respective federal entity and, where appropriate, municipalities. and delegations.

The Federal Government will grant subsidies to those Civil Protection Funds in accordance with the resources that, if necessary, are approved for that purpose in the budget of the Expenditure of the Federation, without exceeding the contributions made in the corresponding fiscal year by the federal entities and, where appropriate, the municipalities and delegations.

The State Civil Protection Funds will operate as established in the relevant administrative regulations and in the case of federal resources, in terms of of the coordination agreements to be concluded, specifying the requirements for access, exercise and verification of the resources, as well as the obligations in the handling and maintenance of the equipment purchased.

The training will be in line with the guidelines dictated by the National School of Civil Protection and the resources for the systematization of the Civil protection should seek to optimise the management and exchange of information and its approval at national level.

Chapter XIV

From the Grants to Help the Population

Article 68. The corresponding authorities shall establish the bases and guidelines, in accordance with this Law and its Rules of Procedure, to issue the Calls, reception, administration, control and distribution of donations to be provided for altruistic purposes for emergency or disaster care.

The natural or moral persons who wish to collaborate with the collection of donations in kind must obtain the authorization of the State Civil Protection Units, in accordance with the requirements and criteria laid down in the applicable Regulation and legislation.

Article 69. It will be the competent authorities in the different government orders that will determine with attachment to their local regulation, the criteria of use and destination of the donations, and in all cases must be given a detailed report.

Article 70. Without prejudice to what the previous article expresses, the Federal Executive will have to promote an agile mechanism within the National Council, transparent and effective control and coordination so that the donated resources are administered and delivered to the benefit of the population of the entities, municipalities, delegations or communities in emergency or disaster.

Article 71. Cash donations received by banking or financial institutions, when they are intended for the affected population, will be deductible, in terms of the applicable legislation, for those who make the contributions but not for the institutions which receive them, who may monitor the application of the resources in the actions to be determined by the National Council or by the State Council of Civil Protection, respectively.

Article 72. The authorities concerned must verify that at all times donations are strictly applied to benefit the affected population. for the emergency and/or disaster with low economic and social level, and where appropriate, in favour of specific support programmes for micro-entrepreneurs and small producers.

Chapter XV

Of Security Measures

Article 73. In the event of imminent risk, without prejudice to the issuance of a declaration of emergency or natural disaster and to establish other provisions legal, agencies and entities of the federal public administration, federal agencies, municipalities and delegations, will implement the security measures that they are responsible for, in order to protect the lives of the population and its goods, the productive plant and its environment, to ensure the functioning of the essential services of the community, immediately informing the relevant civil protection authorities of the actions undertaken, who will install in the cases deemed necessary and in accordance with the regulations applicable, the operations center, as the command and coordination center of the actions on the site.

Article 74. This Law, its Regulations, as well as the administrative provisions in the matter, will regulate the means, formalities and other requirements for access and make use of financial resources for the prevention and attention of natural disasters, taking into account the principle of immediacy.

Once the application for a declaration of natural disaster has been filed, the authority shall have a period of up to 5 calendar days for its issuance, in terms of the provisions administrative in the field.

The deadline for governments of federal and Federal District entities to have access to natural disaster resources will be up to 10 calendar days, counted from the day the respective natural disaster declaration is issued.

Article 75. The State, Municipal, and Delegation of Civil Protection Units, as well as that of the Federal District, will have the power to apply the following security measures:

I. Identification and delimitation of places or zones of risk;

II. Control of evacuation routes and access to affected areas;

III. Preventive actions for the precautionary mobilization of the population and its installation and care in temporary shelters;

IV. Coordination of care services;

V. The temporary, partial or total isolation of the affected area;

VI. The suspension of jobs, activities, and services, and

VII. Other than in the field of civil protection shall determine the regulatory provisions and the corresponding local legislation, which is intended to prevent damage from being generated or continued.

Also, the Units referred to in this Article and the Secretariat may promote to the competent authorities, the execution of any or any of the security to be established in other ordinances.

Article 76. When the security measures provided for in the previous article are applied, your temporality and, where applicable, the actions for your suspension.

Article 77. Prior to the conduct of public events and mass concentration spaces, specific civil protection programs must be developed. which shall be delivered in due time to the civil protection authorities for approval and coordination with other security authorities. The main measures of the program and the appropriate conduct in case of a contingency must be disseminated to the participating public by the organizer before the event or at the beginning of the event.

Chapter XVI

From individuals

Article 78. Individuals who, by their use and destination, concentrate or receive a mass influx of people, are required to have an internal unit of civil protection and to develop an internal program, in the terms established by this Law and its regulations, without prejudice to the provisions of the respective local laws.

Article 79. Private or physical persons in the private sector whose activity is the handling, storage, distribution, transportation and use of materials hazardous, hydrocarbon and explosives shall be submitted to the appropriate authority for the internal civil protection programmes referred to in Article 2 (XL) of this Law.

Article 80. Those responsible for the administration and operation of the activities mentioned in the above articles shall integrate the internal units with their personal, in accordance with the requirements laid down in the rules of procedure of this Law, without prejudice to local laws and regulations.

Article 81. Any natural or moral person shall report to the competent authorities, making it directly of any high risk, disaster or disaster. present or may be presented.

Chapter XVII

Risk Zone Detection

Article 82. The Federal Government, with the participation of federal entities and the Federal District government, should seek to concentrate the information climatological, geological, meteorological and astronomical to be available at national level.

Article 83. The Federal Government, with the participation of federal entities and the Federal District Government, will promote the creation of the bases that permit identification and registration in the National, State and Municipal Atlas of Risks of the areas in the country with risk to the population, public and private assets, which will enable the competent authorities to regulate the construction of settlements.

Article 84. The construction, construction, construction of infrastructure works and human settlements that are carried out in the an area determined without elaborating a risk analysis and, where appropriate, defining the measures for its reduction, taking into account the applicable regulations and the municipal, state and national Atlas and do not have the authorisation of the appropriate authority.

Article 85. They are competent authorities to apply the provisions of this chapter, within the scope of their respective powers under the Law:

I. The various dependencies of the Federal Executive;

II. The Attorney General's Office;

III. The Governments of the States;

IV. The Federal District Government, and

V. The Municipalities and Administrative Political Bodies.

Article 86. In the National Risk Atlas and the respective State and Municipal Risk Atlas, the different levels of hazard and risk must be established. risk, for all phenomena influencing the different areas. Such instruments shall be taken into consideration by the competent authorities, for the authorisation or not of any type of construction, infrastructure or human settlement.

Article 87. In the case of human settlements already established in High Risk Zones, competent authorities based on specific risk studies, determine the performance of the infrastructure works that are necessary to mitigate the risk to which they are exposed or, if necessary, they must formulate a plan in order to determine which of them should be relocated, proposing mechanisms financial to allow this action.

Article 88. The Federal Government, the Federal Government, and the Federal District, will seek and propose mechanisms for the transfer of risks to through the procurement of insurance or other financial instruments.

Article 89. Federal authorities, federal authorities, the Federal District Government, municipalities and administrative political bodies, determine which authority under its strict responsibility, will have competence and powers to authorize the use of a territorial extension in consistency with the use of permitted soil, once considered the prevention actions or risk reduction referred to in the articles of this chapter.

Article 90. The authorization of land use permits or use by public servants of any of the three levels of government, which do not have the corresponding approval, will be considered a serious conduct, which will be sanctioned by agreement with the respective Public Servants Liability Act, in addition to constituting a criminal act in the terms of this Law and other applicable legal provisions.

Chapter XVIII

From Attention to Rural Population Affected by Climatic Contingencies

Article 91. It is the responsibility of the Federal Government and the federal entities to address the negative effects caused by extreme weather events in the rural sector, in this sense, must be provided with the mechanisms that allow to respond in an agile and timely manner by means of direct support and the contracting of catastrophic insurance to the agricultural, livestock, aquaculture and fishing producers, income, affected by extreme weather contingencies, of compliance with the provisions of Article 126 of the Sustainable Rural Development Act.

Article 92. To fulfill the responsibility of the Federal Government to care for rural low-income producers affected by contingencies The federal government will have to monitor, the implementation of a program for the attention of disturbing natural phenomena that affect the productive assets of rural low-income producers and their budget forecast as established in Article 4 of this Law.

Article 93. The Federal and State governments will have to participate in actions as well as in the contribution of resources, for the implementation of programs that help to the reinstatement of low income producers to their productive activities.

Article 94. The Federal Government will have to create a special reserve for the rural sector for the purpose of providing resources in an expeditious manner to the Attention to Climatic Contingencies, when the resources allocated in the Federation's Government Budget were exhausted.

Transient

First. This Law shall enter into force the day after its publication in the Official Journal of the Federation.

Second. The Federal Executive will issue the Regulation of this Law no longer than 180 days from its publication.

Third. This Law abrogates the General Civil Protection Law published in the Official Journal of the Federation on May 12, 2000 and its 29 th December 2001, 13 June 2003, 15 June 2004 and 24 April 2006.

Fourth. Civil protection regulatory and administrative provisions will continue to be applied in what is not opposed to this Law, as long as the law is issued. Regulation.

Fifth. The other provisions in matters of civil protection contained in other federal laws, will be complementary to this Law, in so far as it does not object to it.

Sixth. Disasters and emergencies that have occurred prior to the entry into force of the Act will be treated in accordance with financial and financial resources. administrative provisions in force on the date on which they occurred.

Seventh. The Governors of the States, the Head of Government of the Federal District, the Municipal Presidents, and the Chief Delegate of the Federal District, will have a period of up to 180 days from the publication of this Law to comply with the provisions of Article 18 of this Law.

Eighth. The local authorities will conduct the necessary procedures for the purpose of the corresponding adjustments in the Laws and the other local provisions in the matter within a period not longer than 365 days from the publication of this Law, in accordance with the principles and guidelines of this Law at all times.

Ninth. Within 90 days of the publication of this Law, the Federal Executive will be required to submit a report of the state of the resources of the Natural Disaster Fund Trust, and these will become part of the Financial Risk Management instruments.

The Natural Disaster Fund Trust will continue to meet the commitments arising from the risk transfer instruments it contracted under the provisions applicable prior to the entry into force of this Law, may also contract instruments of the same nature and in accordance with those provisions, as long as the administrative provisions referred to in Article 63 of the Law, jointly, by the Secretariat of Government and the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit.

The Natural Disaster Fund Trust can only be terminated and liquidated until all obligations are fulfilled and the rights derived from the the instruments contracted, in the terms of the applicable provisions, prior to the entry into force of this Law.

Tenth. Within a period of no more than 90 days from the publication of this Law, the Federal Executive will draw up the guidelines for the States and the District Federal can access resources to comply with the obligations set out in Article 18 of this Act.

Tenth First. In relation to Article 17 of this Law, the Federal Entities and the Federal District will seek to adapt such a denomination and structure to more No later than 180 days after the entry into force of this Regulation.

Tenth Second. In relation to Article 31 and as regards the necessary resources such as the buildings that serve as headquarters, infrastructure, personnel, and other The Secretariat of Government will provide these resources for the coordination to achieve its objectives and be established.

Tenth Third. With regard to Article 4 (VI), in such certification of competencies, it must be extended to the members of those bodies and institutions that by their nature are integrated into the National Civil Protection System.

Mexico, D.F., on April 19, 2012.-Sen. José González Morfin, President.-Dip. Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, President.-Sen. Martha Leticia Sosa Govea, Secretary.-Dip. Gloria Romero Leon, Secretary.-Rubicas."

In compliance with the provisions of Article 89 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, and for their due publication and observance, I request this Decree in the Federal Executive Branch, in Mexico City, Federal District, to four June of two thousand twelve.- Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa.-Rubrias.-The Secretary of the Interior, Alejandro Alfonso Poire Romero.-Heading.