He Business Coordinating Council (CCE) of Mexicothe main representative of the private sector, asked the Government Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) to eliminate the obstacles that restrict the procedures and futures of the companies that participate in the energy sector.
The CCE statement issued this Monday comes after the CRE published an agreement in recent days in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) that “It prevents the efficient development of the energy sector due to the accumulation of procedures.”
So far, he calculated the organism, the pending procedures total about 10,000, corresponding to hydrocarbons, electricity and pre-registration.
This accumulation of permits, which must be processed by the CRE, will be added to an important request for new permits.”
alerted the CCE.
These, they assured, will be a brake on the realization of projects that are “essential” to take advantage of productive investments in Mexico in it energy sector.
In addition, they denounced that the agreement published by the BELIEVE it lacks a “transparent methodology” and “imposes artificial limits”.
Among the reasons, they highlighted that only 50 permits per month are considered for hydrocarbons, 15 for electricity and 120 for pre-registrations, or that only one monthly permit may be requested per natural or legal person.
These measures, they added, contravene the legal deadlines established in the Electricity Industry Law, the Hydrocarbons Law, the Energy Transition Law or the Climate Change Law, for which reason they could be susceptible to “legal controversies”.
Also, the CCE warned, it could open a new front in the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC), under which there is already an open consultation to question Mexican energy policy.
For all these reasons, the business sector requested to modify the agreement and establish an “efficient and transparent” system of deadlines that promotes development and competition in the Mexican energy sector.
The CCE alert is a new controversy of the nationalist energy policy of the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accused of hindering private investment, particularly foreign, to benefit state companies: the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and Petróleos Mexicans (Pemex).
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