The structural reform package includes changes to state enterprises, private business, and agricultural policy.
On Thursday, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz submitted to the National Assembly a package of 176 economic and social transformations.
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These structural reforms are aimed at responding to the economic crisis induced by the U.S. blockade, which U.S. President Donald Trump has intensified through the oil siege since January. The proposed transformations are organized under the following 23 public policy pillars.
PILLAR 1: MANAGEMENT MODEL OF ECONOMIC ACTORS
-. Expand the authority of the state business system so that it operates with greater autonomy and under conditions similar to those of the other economic actors, including the ability to carry out any lawful activity without abandoning its primary corporate purpose. The regulations approved for the other economic actors will also apply to the Socialist state enterprise.
-. Decentralize to the business system the authority to approve wholesale and retail prices. Pricing will take into account costs, expenses, market trends, value chains, and vertical and horizontal relationships among economic actors.
-. Restructure the Superior Organizations of Business Management (OSDEs), excluding state functions and those that are the responsibility of enterprises.
-. Authorize the OSDEs to create state-owned enterprises and state MSMEs; authorize enterprises to create subsidiaries and state MSMEs; and authorize both levels to carry out mergers, dissolutions, liquidations, and other organizational changes.
-. Authorize the OSDEs to define their organizational structures and consolidate administrative positions or subcontract services.
-. Make the approval and allocation of after-tax profits more flexible.
-. Update the functions and authority of Government Boards to make their operations more flexible.
-. Allow business entities participating in supply chains access to the foreign exchange market under the new conditions resulting from the implementation of the transformations.
-. Eliminate the salary scale in the state business system and establish a minimum wage that takes inflation levels into account.
-. Wage levels, negotiated with workers and with the participation of the labor union, will depend on the economic and financial capacity of the enterprises.
-. Change the relationship between the state budget and the business system, including a review of the financial burden and the elimination of subsidies to enterprises.
-. Authorize Provincial Governments and Municipal Administration Councils to create, merge, dissolve, and liquidate local state-owned enterprises, as well as carry out other organizational changes.
-. Reduce to the essential minimum the indicators used to measure the efficiency of the state business system.
-. Allow and encourage public and private enterprises to make financial investments.
-. Design financial instruments that allow enterprises to be capitalized without participation from the state budget.
-. Implement a National Program for the Valuation and Certification of State Enterprise Assets (appraisals) that will:
a) Conduct a national inventory of the tangible and intangible assets of the business system based on market valuation.
b) Issue enforceable property certificates that may serve as collateral for bank credit.
c) Allow state-owned enterprises to monetize underutilized assets through long-. term leasing to different economic actors and foreign investors.
-. Design an efficient and competitive business system that generates revenue to support the services of agencies in the social sector.
-. Establish procedures for the bankruptcy, liquidation, and restructuring of assets with sustained losses in the state sector.
-. Transform the Socialist state enterprise into a joint-. stock or equity-. based commercial corporation:
a) The state will define its equity participation across the sectors of the economy, guaranteeing majority ownership in strategic sectors.
b) State-owned enterprises will be allowed to purchase shares in other companies.
c) Non-state forms of management and natural persons will also be allowed to purchase shares gradually.
-. Authorize the creation of MSMEs and non-agricultural cooperatives whose applications are pending approval on the Economic Actors Platform.
-. Reduce the requirements, procedures, and timeframes for the creation, conversion, and operation of non-state forms of management, while establishing approval deadlines.
-. Allow the hiring of more than 100 workers. Entities exceeding this threshold will be classified as private companies.
-. Allow a natural person to own more than one private company.
-. Expand the corporate structures under which private companies may be organized, including joint-. stock corporations.
-. Allow the same natural person to hold equity interests in more than one private company.
-. Grant real property rights (usufruct and surface rights) to private companies or cooperatives to undertake investments for the development of their productive or service activities.
-. Authorize cash foreign currency deposits by non-state actors to be credited to bank accounts in the same currency, subject to a declaration of the lawful origin of the funds and the right of withdrawal.
-. Allow non-state forms of management to engage in other productive and service activities without abandoning their primary activity.
-. Reduce the list of activities prohibited for non-state economic actors.
-. Improve the Economic Actors Platform by incorporating the use of Artificial Intelligence. Ensure its transparency, traceability, and efficiency.
-. Transform the institutional structure and the forms of ownership and management of the productive base of the agricultural sector. Allow private companies to operate in agricultural activities.
-. Develop an input market with the participation of all economic actors and with the possibility of accessing the foreign exchange market.
-. Create a National Productive Linkages Platform requiring state-owned enterprises to publish their input and subcontracting needs, while granting tax incentives based on purchasing levels from domestic producers.
PILLAR 2: TRANSFORMATIONS IN PROPERTY RELATIONS AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
-. Reaffirm social ownership of the fundamental means of production and advance non-state management of these means.
-. Allow the purchase of shares and property of state-owned enterprises by state and non-state legal entities, domestic and foreign, as well as natural persons, provided the lawful origin of the funds is demonstrated.
-. Create an investment program that encourages the participation in Cuban companies of Cuban residents in the country and abroad.
-. Recognize the legitimate growth of the financial and material assets of legal entities and natural persons.
-. Guarantee the protection of labor and social rights without allowing indiscriminate exploitation of man by man.
PILLAR 3: ECONOMIC PLANNING SYSTEM
-. Improve medium- and long-term planning, focused on development design, prioritizing macroeconomic balances, reducing structural problems, and providing policy signals for all economic actors.
-. Incorporate into the projections of the National Economic and Social Development Plan through 2030 and into provincial and municipal development strategies the economic, commercial, and service activities of non-state economic actors.
-. Transition toward a financial planning model in which the state progressively abandons the physical distribution of resources, giving greater participation to market signals:
a) State-owned enterprises will access inputs, foreign currency, and other resources for production in a decentralized manner through market mechanisms.
b) the state assignment will be executed through a contractual scheme between supplying and demanding entities.
c) The planning process must take into account the satisfaction of domestic market demand.
-. Maintain the fundamental balances of the economy (agri-food, foreign exchange, energy, and the state budget), turning them into instruments for diagnosis, anticipation, and policy correction.
-. Expand investment approval limits by decentralizing authority to state-owned enterprises, commercial companies, or foreign investment entities, depending on their financial capacity and access to resources.
PILLAR 4: RESIZING OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
-. Restructure the Central Administration of the State, including a significant reduction in the number of ministries and budgeted agencies.
-. Reorganize state and government structures to adapt them to the country’s new economic conditions and make public management more efficient. This process would also directly affect provincial and municipal administrations, where a resizing of structures and workforce staffing is expected.
PILLAR 5: MUNICIPAL GOVERNANCE
-. Decentralize to municipal governments the following powers: strategic planning; territorial and urban planning; food sovereignty and food and nutritional security; community services; and promotion of local economic development.
-. Diversify and strengthen the productive fabric, including the participation of different economic actors, Cubans residing in the country and abroad, and local production systems.
-. Increase the capacity to export and import, as well as to generate and retain foreign currency for current and capital expenditures.
-. Encourage and manage foreign direct investment.
-. Change administrative, budgetary, financial, tax, and human resources management at the level of local governments.
PILLAR 6: ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS
-. Allow the participation of private and foreign capital in the import and commercialization of fuels, including the retail network.
-. Expand and restructure the management of the network of service stations, including mobile service stations.
-. Establish that service stations managed by different economic actors incorporate photovoltaic systems with storage so that they become independent from the National Electric System.
-. Encourage the installation of charging stations to commercialize electric vehicle charging services.
-. Design financing lines, make requirements more flexible, and expand guarantees for granting credit to legal entities and natural persons, to encourage the energy transition. Encourage investment from the demand side.
-. Allow state-owned enterprises to use foreign platforms to execute payments for the purchase and sale of fuels.
-. Apply a tax of up to 1% on the import of physical or financial fuel, destined for operational inventories.
-. Reduce the tax, in an amount equivalent to the investment made, for state and non-state economic actors that carry out investments in renewable energy sources, as part of their social responsibility, in service centers for the population, social or care facilities, including public lighting.
PILLAR 7: INCENTIVES FOR AGRICULTURAL RECOVERY
-. Modify land management and use for all economic actors.
-. Maintain the principle of land ownership by the entire people.
-. Grant real usufruct rights over land to state, private, mixed, or natural legal persons that request it, for an indefinite period and for areas intended for all agricultural, forestry, and tobacco production, as well as for eco-. and agritourism development projects.
-. Empower the state enterprise that administers land owned by the socialist property of the entire people to grant it in usufruct to applicants through the corresponding contract, in compliance with current legal regulations.
-. Authorize the granting of land in usufruct to Agricultural Production Cooperatives (CPAs), once approved by the General Assembly of the cooperative and in compliance with current legal regulations.
-. Eliminate requirements for direct and stable work on the land by usufruct holders.
-. Evaluate the definition of labor collectives and propose the necessary structural transformations.
-. Transform the cooperative management model.
-. Authorize cooperatives to import and commercialize fuels as an input.
-. Grant cooperatives the authority to conduct direct foreign trade for the export of their products and the import of agricultural inputs and technologies.
-. Allow cooperatives to directly manage external financing for exportable production, import substitution, and investments.
-. Allow cooperatives to open bank accounts abroad and in Cuban banks, in both pesos and foreign currency.
-. Make agricultural commercialization more flexible. Recognize the market in price formation.
-. Decentralize and authorize the formation of prices for agricultural products to entities of the state and non-state business system, cooperatives, and producers.
-. Allow producers and buyers to agree on contracting and price setting for agricultural products.
-. Standardize the tax regime for all economic actors that produce, process, and market food.
-. Create a National Information System on Agricultural Product Market Prices, with publication of reference prices on digital platforms.
-. Design incentives for all economic actors to trade agricultural inputs in foreign currency and pesos and to have access to the foreign exchange market:
-. Authorize all economic actors to directly commercialize agricultural inputs and equipment in foreign currency and pesos.
-. Promote the creation of input markets in foreign currency, where domestic and foreign natural and legal persons participate through a simplified process.
-. Approve a special tax regime for all economic actors participating in the input market, with incentives and bonuses for the import and commercialization of inputs in foreign currency.
-. Create banking procedures that guarantee the execution of foreign currency transactions for the sale of inputs to producers and payment to foreign suppliers, through the use of POS terminals for magnetic card payments, transfers, cash payments, electronic commerce, and other authorized payment instruments.
-. Increase financing to the primary production sector through the expansion and territorial decentralization of the Agricultural Development Fund and the creation of a Bank for Agricultural Development:
-. Decentralize to municipalities the use of the Agricultural Development Fund, adjusted to the characteristics of the territory, subject to the presentation of projects aligned with Development Strategies linked to food production.
PILLAR 8: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
-. Digitize and make transparent the management of assistance through the use of the SOBERANIA platform for real-time updating of the registry of people and families in situations of vulnerability, so that the different forms of care, their traceability, and governmental and public control are systematized.
-. Establish that all economic actors (state and private—domestic and foreign), as part of their social responsibility at the community level, in financial, material resources, and services, directly participate in the following activities:
a) Support pension payments through agreements with banks.
b) Support the dining halls of the Family Care System and community food homes.
c) Support homes for children without parental care.
d) Support homes for the elderly, maternity homes, grandparents’ homes, and other social centers.
e) Establish differentiated prices, discounts, free services, or solidarity quotas for people in situations of vulnerability.
f) Assist cases in situations of vulnerability identified by local governments.
g) Support social and health transportation.
h) Support public health institutions and educational centers.
i) Contribute to community hygiene and sanitation in critical areas.
j) Allocate basic products to social institutions.
k) Create monthly basic packages for people and families in situations of vulnerability.
l) Offer employment, training, or apprenticeships to people in situations of vulnerability.
m) Create local emergency funds with private contributions.
n) Enable private premises as collection and distribution points in emergency situations.
o) Support funeral services for families without resources.
p) Promote fairs and popular sales in communities in situations of vulnerability.
-. Strengthen social work with a proactive and preventive approach by prioritizing its role at the municipal level.
-. Provide small-scale assets for the development of non-state activities to people in multidimensional situations of vulnerability, as a means of entering employment and overcoming this condition.
-. Design educational, training, postgraduate, cultural, and other selected services that constitute sources of income for the social sector.
-. Design differentiated rates for childcare centers and semi-. boarding schools in accordance with family income.
-. Design tax benefits for workshops where persons with disabilities work, with the objective of increasing workers’ income.
PILLAR 9: FROM PRODUCT SUBSIDIES TO PEOPLE SUBSIDIES
-. Eliminate product subsidies by transforming them into subsidies for individuals.
-. Eliminate subsidies for economy-. wide products (fuel, electricity, freight and passenger transport, and water tariffs) that affect production and services, in order to transfer real costs to wholesale and retail prices.
-. Create a Social Protection Fund, as a precondition for the transformations, using part of the savings from the elimination of product subsidies.
PILLAR 10: LABOR AND WAGE TRANSFORMATIONS
-. Implement a comprehensive wage reform in the budgeted sector.
-. Set annually, taking into account inflation trends, the minimum wage, the amount of benefits, social security pensions, and wage increases.
-. Establish the following changes in the social security pension system:
a) Eliminate the limit on the scale for the payment of social contributions in the non-state sector.
b) Allow people working simultaneously in the state and non-state sectors to affiliate with and contribute to the corresponding regimes of each activity.
c) Of the minimum 30 years of service required under the contributory system, up to a maximum of 10 years may be recognized if the person dedicated them to family caregiving.
-. Eliminate administrative approval for multiple job holding by technicians, health professionals, researchers, teachers, professors, and officials.
-. Establish incentives to retain a qualified workforce, with emphasis on young people.
-. Establish a monthly income equivalent to a minimum wage as assistance, subject to later reimbursement, for young people between 18 and 30 years old who are not engaged in study or employment and who enroll in a training course. Financing will be provided by the social assistance budget or the business system, as appropriate. The training period will be recognized as time of service rendered.
-. Empower employers, in agreement with the labor union organization, to arrange reduced working hours and corresponding pay for professional activities, to be included in collective labor agreements.
-. Establish for the business and budgeted sectors that workers of the same entity may carry out professional activities, construction maintenance, and similar tasks.
-. Allow telework from abroad at the employer’s request.
-. Include as a justified cause for suspension of social service requirements completion of studies abroad for personal reasons associated with the professional profile, with the employer’s consent.
-. Empower entities to directly determine which workers will terminate their employment relationship for economic, technological, or structural reasons, following evaluation by the collective management body, in agreement with the labor union organization and analysis at the assembly of members and workers. Workers in this situation will receive monetary protection equivalent to a minimum of three and a maximum of six times the base salary of their position, paid as a one-. time payment.
-. Establish protection equivalent to one month of pay for workers hired by self-. employed workers (TCPs) in the event of temporary suspension or cancellation of activity.
PILLAR 11: BANKING AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM MODERNIZATION
-. Promote the participation of private capital in banking activity.
-. Expansion of banking and non-banking financial institutions by private companies, cooperatives, and foreign investment with corporate and universal banking licenses.
-. Allow private banking to operate under the supervision of the Central Bank under equal regulatory conditions with state banking.
-. Allow the establishment of non-banking or non-financial institutions supporting the banking sector with domestic or foreign private capital for the granting of microcredits.
-. Eliminate restrictions on foreign currency payments between foreign-capital businesses and their domestic suppliers.
-. Allow the opening of foreign currency accounts by legal entities and natural persons without prior administrative authorization.
-. Implement the regulatory framework for virtual assets and the use of financial technologies and expand their use for domestic and international payment and collection operations. Create financial entities for virtual assets.
-. Update the interest rate system, adjusting it to current economic conditions (including sovereign bonds).
-. Allow the establishment of non-banking or non-financial institutions supporting the banking sector with domestic or foreign private capital for the granting of microcredits.
-. Implement the figure of last-mile payment agent to formalize remittance flows through a private channel.
-. Design other ways of capitalizing banks, in addition to resources from the state budget.
-. Update the strategy with a new approach for dealing with external debt, taking current conditions into account.
-. Accelerate the automation process of banks and the reduction of procedures associated with their services.
-. Grant Transfermovil a license as a non-banking financial institution.
-. Complete the process of eliminating limits on bank transfers and withdrawals for natural and legal persons, domestic and foreign.
-. Resize the official foreign exchange and remittance market, with the participation of non-state economic actors, including the granting of licenses for private exchange house operations:
-. Create a real-time digital foreign exchange market with authorized agents.
-. Implement a foreign exchange auction system.
-. Carry out successive devaluations of the national currency to reduce exchange rate gaps. Companies that cannot withstand the devaluation will be liquidated.
-. Incorporate into Segment II cooperatives, the diplomatic sector, state MSMEs, and foreign investment operating with non-state management forms, ensuring that no arbitrage occurs. State-owned enterprises will participate freely in sales and in a controlled manner for purchases.
-. Create state and private non-banking financial institutions dedicated to channeling financial flows, including remittances, through foreign exchange operations.
-. Establish one-stop exchange windows for all economic actors as decided.
-. Expand the corporate purpose of non-banking financial institutions that provide services for the management of international cooperation funds.
PILLAR 12: TAX SYSTEM TRANSFORMATIONS
-. Improve consumption taxation through the gradual implementation of the Value Added Tax (VAT). It will begin with certain production-consumption chains and will include reduced tax rates for products in the basic basket of goods and services.
-. Establish electronic fiscal invoicing with incentives that promote its adoption by taxpayers.
-. Apply a rebate on the tax on sales and services based on levels of banked (formalized) sales.
-. Reduce the tax burden on the business sector in terms of the profits tax, with the aim of increasing its growth and investment capacity. Expand the tax base by eliminating economically unjustified special deductions and reducing the risk of tax evasion.
-. Establish a gross income tax for companies that report losses for more than two fiscal periods.
-. Apply a reduced profits tax rate for the agricultural sector.
-. Simplify the calculation and payment of the profits tax by eliminating the concept of per capita profit, which implies applying the tax to members of CNAs, CPAs, and UBPCs.
-. Design an accelerated depreciation regime for the acquisition of machinery, food production technologies, and industrial processing equipment, to support investment recovery.
-. Reduce the financial burden on entities, determined by the contribution of state investment returns, conditioned for use in development and capitalization.
-. Apply tax incentives to state and non-state economic actors that finance investments in the social sector.
-. Update the personal income tax in line with the current inflationary environment through the following adjustments:
a) Modify the progressive scale for annual tax settlement and payment. Reduce the number of brackets to standardize tax application.
b) Increase the tax-exempt minimum up to the level of the national average salary at the end of 2025.
-. Reintroduce a simplified tax regime for lower-complexity activities, with an automatic adjustment system based on annual gross income levels, enabling the National Tax Administration Office to focus control on larger taxpayers.
-. Increase fixed amounts of the following taxes: the tax on land transport depending on vehicle type, value, fuel, among other factors; the tax on vessels; the tax on documents; environmental taxes; and the fee for the registration of advertisements and commercial propaganda.
-. Design tariff rates and incentives that favor domestic production processes and the import of raw materials, materials, technologies, and equipment for the use of renewable energy sources.
PILLAR 13: PRICING POLICY
-. Decentralize the authority to approve prices and tariffs to companies and territorial and local administrations.
-. Eliminate cost-based price formation and establish, for price formation, market reference prices or correlation-based pricing, defining positioning within the value chain.
PILLAR 14: FOREIGN INVESTMENT
-. Encourage the participation of foreign investment in private companies and cooperatives through the creation of joint ventures and international economic association contracts.
-. Extend the limit for granting surface rights to up to 99 years and usufruct rights to more than 50 years for foreign investment.
-. Allow businesses with foreign capital, in any form, to open bank accounts abroad without authorization. In all cases, notify the Central Bank of Cuba and the National Tax Administration Office.
-. Allow real estate businesses to carry out transactions for the purchase and sale of residential units.
-. Eliminate the mandatory use of employment agencies for the selection and hiring of personnel.
-. Allow foreign investment to dispose of its foreign currency income, operate with flexibility in an environment of partial dollarization of the economy, and allow access to the foreign exchange market.
-. Reduce documentation and deadlines, and decentralize the approval of foreign investment, including the application of positive administrative silence. This latter measure will apply to all authorization processes in the country related to the issuance of licenses for economic, financial, and commercial activities with direct effect on registry activity.
-. Allow foreign investment in Old Havana and other heritage areas.
PILLAR 15: INTERNATIONAL TRADE
-. Promote exports of goods and services by decentralizing export authority, applying differentiated incentives, and promoting productive integration with foreign capital, in order to increase total export value and achieve a sustained trade surplus in goods and services.
-. Apply the negative list principle for companies engaged in foreign trade, including foreign investment.
-. Allow private companies and cooperatives to directly carry out foreign trade activities, subject to prior authorization from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment.
-. Approve that institutions may sell brands and patents on the international market, subject to prior authorization.
PILLAR 16: DOLLARIZATION
-. Expand the scope of partial dollarization of the economy in inter-company and commercial operations, in line with the current situation.
-. Modify the current concept of closed foreign-currency self-financing schemes toward a system of contributions based on foreign-currency transactions.
PILLAR 17: TOURISM SECTOR
-. Add to existing business modalities (joint ventures and management contracts) for all tourism activities: Leasing arrangements; The granting of onerous usufruct rights; The concession of areas with assets or under development in different regions of the country, and the sale of real estate (case-by-case approval).
-. This measure will apply to foreign investors as well as Cuban residents abroad or in the national territory.
-. Include in the Business Opportunity Portfolio certain areas of the country as Economic Development Zones, where special regimes are established.
-. Allow the application of all business modalities in cays, heritage zones of Old Havana and Trinidad, as well as in all tourist destinations in the country where these models are beneficial to the sector and foreign investment is required for their development.
-. Allow real estate development in all tourist areas of the country where this type of business is required. Establish the possibility of developing real estate businesses in areas of Havana and other urban areas of the country linked to tourism activity.
-. Allow the joint venture and leasing modalities for the negotiation of tourist marinas.
-. Approve tax and fiscal benefits for all economic actors for ecotourism projects and other forms of specialized tourism in order to attract foreign investment and diversify tourism development in a sustainable and responsible manner.
-. Create an online corporate banking platform for the tourism sector with international linkages and that promotes virtual asset services.
-. Update car rental activity (currently exclusive to two companies in the country) to include other state companies, foreign investment, and non-state management forms.
-. Update the establishment of travel agencies to include joint ventures, 100% foreign-owned companies, as well as non-state management forms.
-. Authorize private tourism guides and sales agents, subject to prior authorization due to the high level of specialization required by this activity.
-. Approve local destination managers capable of integrating all actors and ensuring the functioning of a mixed governance model.
-. Evaluate the collection of a special tax—or contribution, which does not currently exist—for all those who engage in tourism in a zone or tourist hub, and allocate it to the sustainability, maintenance, and promotion of that area.
-. Promote foreign franchises of Cuban brands as a way to generate income, such as Casas Cuba, Casas del Habano, La Bodeguita del Medio, El Floridita, and Tropicana.
PILLAR 18: TRANSPORT
-. Eliminate the restriction established for the acquisition of vehicles by different economic actors and natural persons, as well as established deadlines, encouraging photovoltaic electric mobility.
-. Authorize the non-commercial direct import by natural persons of a 100% electric car. Provided it is accompanied by its corresponding charging station with a renewable energy source with full coverage, it is exempt from the payment of taxes and tariffs.
-. Allow direct commercial import, for the assembly and commercialization of electric vehicles of the moped, motorcycle, and tricycle classes, by authorized state and non-state legal entities. Provided it is accompanied by its corresponding charging station with a renewable energy source with full coverage, it is exempt from the payment of taxes.
PILLAR 19: TRADE, GASTRONOMY, AND SERVICES
-. Modify policy on the state administrative management of trade, gastronomy, and services, giving priority to non-state forms of management and foreign investment modalities.
-. Reorganize wholesale trade by prioritizing the creation of supply markets with direct access for natural and legal persons. Do not set limits on actors engaged in this activity.
-. Authorize the commercialization and provision of services by foreign entities established in the country, including branches and representative offices.
-. Create chains of stores, restaurants, and a network of light gastronomy under recognized brands or others, extending throughout the country.
-. Invite light food franchises to invest in the country.
-. Tender recreational parks, zoos, aquariums, protected areas, and lodging units to state, foreign, private, and cooperative companies, establishing conditions for their operation, including percentages of sales in pesos and foreign currency.
-. Formalize vendors in communities under various modalities, issue “street vendor” licenses, and apply a simplified tax regime.
-. Encourage wholesale and retail public procurement, using the public procurement budget fund and bank credit as working capital.
-. Create an automated, digital, auditable, and public system for the bidding of premises and assets to all economic actors.
-. Transition from the rationed family basket to controlled, unsubsidized sales in the retail network.
-. Authorize natural persons to carry out imports with a commercial character, subjecting them to tariffs in foreign currency. This does not imply granting foreign trade authority.
PILLAR 20: INSURANCE POLICY
-. Recognize the monetization of financial resources mobilized in insurance activity.
-. Create life insurance as a complementary form of social security protection.
-. Increase the commercialization of foreign-currency policies covering transport, travel, and medical expense risks.
-. Establish compulsory civil liability insurance for vehicle drivers.
PILLAR 21: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
-. Establish the national framework for mandatory interoperability, data governance, artificial intelligence, and territorial equity.
-. Apply a competitive remuneration system that contributes to the promotion of the export of professional services in digital technologies and artificial intelligence.
-. Allow foreign investment in the expansion of the Telecommunications Company’s data center capacities.
-. Allow the private sector to provide data center services that do not host critical infrastructure management platforms for the country, equipment manufacturing, as well as installation of mobile and fixed networks, triple-play commercialization, data centers, cloud services, IP telephony, and contact centers.
-. Establish a digital platform using artificial intelligence for the public procurement and bidding system, ensuring transparency and security, and including risk classification.
-. Allow mixed management of postal infrastructure and last-mile logistics.
-. Recognize data as the fifth factor of production (alongside land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurial capacity), meaning it is considered a non-renewable economic resource capable of generating wealth.
PILLAR 22: NATIONAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM
-. Design a statistical system that aligns with economic and social transformations.
-. Complete the change of the base year for National Accounts.
-. Resume the construction of producer price indices and foreign trade price indices, while maintaining the consumer price index, along with products derived from observed prices.
PILLAR 23: CONTROL AND INSPECTION MECHANISMS
-. Create a working group led by the Communist Party’s Central Committee and composed of the National Assembly, the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Comptroller General, the Supreme Court, the Council of Ministers, the Interior Ministry, and the Justice Ministry. This working group will analyze existing control provisions and make proposals for transformations.
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