ENERGY SECRETARY

Internal rules of the Inter-Secrésecretarial Commission for the Development of Bioenergy.

On the sidelines, a seal with the National Shield, which reads: Mexican United States.-Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit.-Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources.-Secretary of Energy.-Secretary of the Economy.-Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food.

JOSÉ ANTONIO MEADE KURIBREÑA, SECRETARY OF FINANCE AND PUBLIC CREDIT; JUAN RAFAEL ELVIRA QUESADA, SECRETARY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES; JORDY HERNAN HERRERA FLORES, SECRETARY OF ENERGY; BRUNO FRANCISCO FERRARI GARCIA DE ALBA, ECONOMY SECRETARY AND FRANCISCO JAVIER MAYORGA CASTANEDA, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FISHERIES AND FOOD, MEMBERS OF THE INTERSECRETARIAL COMMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOENERGETICS, AS LAID DOWN IN ARTICLES 31, 32A, 33, 34 AND 35, OF THE ORGANIC LAW OF THE FEDERAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, 8, 9, 10, 17, AND 20, OF THE LAW ON THE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BIOENERGETICS, we have had to issue the following:

INTERNAL RULES OF THE INTERSECRETARIAL COMMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOENERGY

Chapter I

General Provisions

ARTICLE 1.- The purpose of this order is to establish the basis for the organization and operation of the Intersecretarial Commission for the Development of Bioenergetics.

ARTICLE 2.- For the purposes of this Regulation:

I.- Commission: The Intersecretarial Commission for the Development of Bioenergy under Article 8 of the Law on the Promotion and Development of Bioenergy;

II.- Law: Law on the Promotion and Development of Bioenergy;

III.- Members: The Secretaries of Finance and Public Credit; of Environment and Natural Resources; of Energy; of Economy and of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food, which in terms of Article 8 of the Act are integrated by the Commission;

IV.- Substitute Members: Those officials who attend the meetings of the Commission on behalf of the Members and who accredit their participation by trade of designation. Alternate members may be appointed on a permanent basis or for the purposes of a particular session of the Commission, and shall have at least the level of Director-General or counterpart;

V.- President: The President's appointee of the Federal Executive among the members of the Commission;

VI.- Regulation: This Commission Rules of Procedure, and

VII.- Secretary: The Technical Secretary of the Commission.

ARTICLE 3.- For the performance of their duties the Commission may form working groups, establishing their object, integration, duration and minimum bases for their work. operation.

The Commission may invite to participate in its sessions, with a voice but without a vote, to public servants of other departments, deconcentrated administrative bodies, parastatal entities of the Federal Public Administration, as well as representatives of associations or persons of recognized prestige in their field, in order to know the matters related to their competence.

ARTICLE 4.- The interpretation and application of the Regulation will be the responsibility of the President of the Commission, who, if necessary, may submit the proposals he considers to the Commission.

Chapter II

Commission Integration

ARTICLE 5.- The Commission shall be composed of the Members of the Secretaries of Finance and Public Credit; of Environment and Natural Resources; of Energy; of Economy and Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food.

ARTICLE 6.- In cases where one of the Members of the Commission is unable to attend the sessions of the Commission, it may be replaced in its functions by would have been designated as an opportunity.

ARTICLE 7.- These are the functions of the President of the Commission:

I.- Chair and conduct Commission sessions;

II.- Interpret and apply the provisions of this Regulation;

III.- Propose to the Commission, for approval, the designation of the Secretary;

IV.- Instruir to the Secretary to call on the Members of the Commission to the sessions to be scheduled;

V.- To instruct the Secretary to convene those guests whose presence is deemed necessary or appropriate, in accordance with the subject matter of the session;

VI.- Propose to the Commission the creation of work groups;

VII.- Submit to the Commission's consideration, for its approval, the annual work programme of the Commission, the procedures for evaluating the actions carried out and the proposals for agreement;

VIII.- To present to the President of the Republic the proposals approved by the Commission, on the short, medium and long-term programs related to the production, production, storage, transport and distribution by pipeline, marketing and efficient use of Bioenergy; as well as regular reports on the progress of its work and the annual work report, and

IX.- The others that are necessary for the performance of the functions of the Commission.

ARTICLE 8.- The Secretary of the Commission shall be appointed on a proposal of the President for an indefinite period, unless expressly stated otherwise, and shall have the following functions:

I.- Issue the calls to the meetings of the Commission with the agreement of its President. Such calls shall be accompanied by the order of the respective day, as well as the relevant documentation of the matters to be dealt with, in accordance with Articles 14 and 15 of this Regulation;

II.- Turn the invitations to the meetings of the Commission prior to agreement with the President, to the guests referred to in the V fraction of the previous article;

III.- Verify the quorum for the celebration of the Commission sessions;

IV.- Coordinate Commission sessions, providing the administrative support required;

V.- Lift the minutes of the Commission sessions and sign them;

VI.- Report to the Commission on the monitoring and compliance of the agreements taken within the Commission;

VII.- Propose the President to create work groups;

VIII.- Turn to the working groups the issues that have been assigned to them and give them the appropriate follow-up;

IX.- Perform the necessary jobs to support the functions of the Commission;

X.- Present to the President's consideration the project of the Commission's annual work programme and the specific actions related to it, as well as the project of the procedures for evaluating approved actions;

XI.- Register the Commission's agreements and ressave the inherent files of the Commission;

XII.- Exorder certifications from the agreements or documents in the Commission files;

XIII.- Understanding requests for public information that are submitted, in accordance with applicable legal provisions;

XIV.- Give the President of the Commission the correspondence received and, in accordance with his instructions, proceed with his or her processing, and

XV.- The others expressly assigned to you by the Commission, as well as those that are necessary to fulfill the functions of the Commission.

ARTICLE 9.- The Members or Members of the Commission, as the case may be, shall:

I.- Attend and participate with voice and vote in Commission sessions;

II.-Sign your attendance in the appropriate list;

III.- Know and have an opinion on the issues to be presented to the Commission and, where appropriate, propose ways of solution;

IV.- Propose to the Commission the measures they consider relevant for the best use, management and use of the resources that are destined for the programs that Derived from the Act;

V.- Communicate to the Secretary on compliance with the Commission's resolutions, as regards the scope of their correspondence, and

VI.- Perform other acts that are necessary for the performance of the functions of the Commission.

ARTICLE 10.- In accordance with the provisions of Article 10 of the Law, the agreements of the Commission shall be exercised through the dependencies that make it within the scope of their respective competences.

Chapter III

Of the Commission sessions

ARTICLE 11.- The Commission sessions will be ordinary and extraordinary. The ordinary sessions shall be held in accordance with the calendar which for this purpose is approved at the first session of each year. The calendar will be proposed by the Secretary. Extraordinary sessions will have verification when the issues to be dealt with so require.

ARTICLE 12.- In ordinary sessions, the items proposed on the agenda will be treated, which will include at least the following:

I.- The approval of the minutes of the last session;

II.- The report on progress or compliance with approved agreements, and

III.- General issues whose importance does not merit a specific point on the agenda.

ARTICLE 13.- Calls for ordinary sessions shall be notified at least five working days in advance, and the extraordinary two working days, by means of written or any electronic means to ensure its receipt, as it should be noted:

I.- The number of the session;

II.- The date, time, and place the session will be held;

III.- Order of the day, and

IV.- The documentation that serves as the support for the analysis of the issues to be analyzed in the corresponding session.

ARTICLE 14.- The Secretary will request the documentation that corresponds to the person responsible for the dependency or entity of the Federal Public Administration that has proposed to incorporate some issue on the agenda, or, on the follow-up of some agreement.

The person responsible shall transmit the respective documentation to the Registrar, stating their approval and responsibility for the content of the same, avoiding subsequent substitutions. If the person responsible for the proposed case fails to attend the Commission's session, the Secretary shall inform the members of the Commission and withdraw the matter from the agenda.

The documentation must be sent in writing on official paper, containing the identification data of the public server responsible for its preparation, as well as the personnel that may be consulted for clarification on its content, being initialled by the person responsible for its preparation and, where appropriate, complying with the following:

I.- The document title and data that can be summarized in a summary of the case;

II.- Background;

III.- The succinct development of the matter, which must provide all the elements of judgment necessary for the decision-making by the Commission;

IV.- Approach or issues and their effects;

V.- Solution Proposal;

VI.- Benefits and, if any, disadvantages of the proposed solutions;

VII.- Fundamentals;

VIII.- Area responsible for the subject;

IX.- Deadline to execute the solution proposals or, if applicable, Commission agreements, and

X.- Proposed, well-founded, and substantiated agreement proposal.

The cases identified may be accompanied by additional documentation, which may serve as a reference or support to the subject matter of agreement, for prior analysis. Invariably, the documentation referred to in the above fractions must be classified in terms of the Federal Law on Transparency and Access to Government Public Information.

ARTICLE 15.- The Secretary will review the documentation as provided for in the previous article. In case of any omission, it will require the person responsible for the dependency or entity of the Federal Public Administration who has proposed to add the case, the additional information for incorporation in the order of the day. If the omission is not remedied, the Secretary may withdraw the matter from the agenda.

The omission of the delivery of the documentation with the advance notice referred to in Article 13, will result in the removal of the subject of the agenda or a different one for a session subsequently, which shall be communicated by the Secretary to the person responsible for the applicant's office or entity.

ARTICLE 16.- For the Commission to validly sit, at least three Members or their respective alternates must be present.

If the session could not be held on the day indicated for lack of quorum, a new call will be issued indicating such a circumstance to be held within the next eight days. In the case of being an ordinary one, and of the following two working days, in the case of being extraordinary. In the latter case, the session shall be considered validly installed with the members of the Commission present.

ARTICLE 17.- The decisions of the Commission shall be taken by a majority of votes of the members present and in the event of a tie their President shall have a vote of quality.

Effected the vote, the Secretary will settle the result in the corresponding record.

ARTICLE 18.- For each session, a record will be issued that will detail the development of the sessions and contain the following aspects:

I.- Place, date, and time to start and terminate the session;

II.- Session type;

III.- Attendance list;

IV.- Guests who would have attended;

V.- The order of the day;

VI.- Name of persons who have made use of the word in the session and synthesis of their exposure;

VII.- Agreements or resolutions adopted;

VIII.- Pending resolution issues, and

IX.- Those matters that are indicated by the President of the Commission.

The minutes shall be submitted to the Commission for approval at the next regular session and shall be signed by the President and the Registrar.

TRANSIENT

FIRST.- This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the Federation.

SECOND.- As of the entry into force of this Regulation, the Members of the Commission willten working days to designate the members of the Commission respective Permanent Substitute Members.

Mexico City, at the twenty-eight days of the month of November of two thousand twelve.-The Secretary of the Treasury and Public Credit, José Antonio Meade Kurirena.-Heading.-The Secretary of the Media Environment and Natural Resources, Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada.-Rubrica.-The Secretary of Energy, Jordy Hernan Herrera Flores.-Heading.-The Secretary of the Economy, Bruno Francisco Ferrari Garcia de Alba.-Rubrica.-The Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food, Francisco Javier Mayorga Castaneda.-Heading.