Energy committee approves general bill
BY YVONNE REYES CAMPOS
The News
MEXICO CITY – On Thursday the deputies of the Energy Committee approved the general bill from the Senate that expedites the Coordinated Energy Regulatory Organization Law, the National Industrial Security Law, the Environmental Protection in the Hydrocarbon Sector Law and reforms of the Federal Organic Public Administration Law.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Deputy Williams Oswaldo Ochoa Gallegos said that the regulatory organizations need sufficient and effective tools to comply with the proposals because the current national energy system operates with little power to monitor, supervise and punish as established by the new laws.
The new laws establish that regulatory organizations operate with technical, operational and managerial autonomy. Also, that the agencies have legal personhood and that they can generate income based on those rights.
The approved law will also create a new agency called the National Agency of Industrial Security and Environmental Protection in the Hydrocarbon Sector, an autonomous organizational agency within the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources.
The agency was conceived with the objective of protecting people, the environment and the infrastructure associated with hydrocarbon production through regulation and supervision of industrial security and operations. The agency will oversee the activities of dismantling and abandoning hydrocarbon installations and the integral control of residual emission and potential contaminants.
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