As a result of this merger, a single entity called "Agency for Regulation and Control of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources" is created.

Minister of Mining, Javier Cordova, issued a Ministerial Agreement ("Agreement") that reformed the Instructive of Metal Mining Concessions ("Instructive").

To obtain certificates, applicants must meet the requirements established for each case.

The government has guaranteed that this year it will invest USD 2.4 billion in oil and gas, in the context of its economic policy for the sector's development.

On July 30, 2019, the Ecuadorian State officially launched two new energy projects, with which, it seeks to encourage the production of renewable energy.

En el Primer Suplemento del Registro Oficial Nro. 255, del 05 de Junio del 2018, se publicó el Decreto Ejecutivo de Fusión de Ministerios y varias empresas públicas, firmado el 22 de mayo del 2018.

En documento adjunto resumimos los aspectos más importantes de la mencionada normativa.

In Oficial Gazette No. 893 (Wednesday, November 30, 2016) the Ministry of Mining issued Ministerial Agreement No. 2016-339...

In his report to the nation on May 24, 2018 the President of the Republic, Lenin Moreno, delivered to the National Assembly an urgent economic bill of law titled Organic Law for Productive Development ...

The agreement covers widening and improvement of the existing highway, converting it into a four-lane dual-carriageway, and includes a series of engineering structures involving construction of four bridges and two tube tunnels.

El Estado ecuatoriano lanzó oficialmente el día 30 de julio de 2019, dos nuevos proyectos energéticos con los cuales busca incentivar la producción de energías renovables.

Three Internal Revenue Resolutions on the mining sector were published in Official Registry Supplement No. 202 on March 16, 2018. The resolutions include ...

Esperamos que esta información, que es de carácter general, sea de su utilidad.

Mediante Resolución No. 003-001-DIRECTORIO EXTRAORDINARIO-ARCH- 2018, publicada en el Registro Oficial Suplemento No. 377, de fecha miércoles 28 de noviembre de 2018, la Agencia de Regulación y Control Hidrocarburífero...

The Attorney General of Ecuador found that an agreement in the form of a Letter of Intent by which the holder of an oil concession agreed to assign its contractual rights to a third party was not in breach of the Hydrocarbon Law (HL) despite the fact that the preliminary agreement was not approved by the Minister of Energy and Mines (MEM

To avoid the exportation of indirect taxes, Article 69(a) of the Internal Tax Regime Law recognizes the right to a refund for value added tax (VAT) paid on the importation and local acquisition of goods and services used for the production of export goods. Based on this legal provision, companies with upstream contracts have claimed from the Internal Revenue Service a refund of the VAT paid on the production of the oil they produce and export.

Test data is the necessary information required by the health Authority to approve the marketing of a medicine or agricultural chemical product in order to guarantee its safety and efficacy.

El artículo 39 de la Ley de Minería establece que: "el concesionario minero tendrá derecho a solicitar al Ministerio Sectorial, durante la vigencia del periodo de evaluación económica del yacimiento...

The Constitutional Court of Ecuador (the "Court") has recently ruled on a series of constitutional actions brought against the development of mining projects in Ecuador (the "Decisions").