Guatemala is preparing a plan to inspect factories in order to avoid a possible arbitration, forced by the US, for non-compliance of labor standards under CAFTA.
The Labour Ministry is preparing a program to inspect working conditions in the textile factories which could take six months to complete. The plan must conform to the standards set by enterprises under the 29-89 scheme (Law on Promotion of Export Activity and Maquilas).
The final bill of law required for Costa Rica to join CAFTA was approved this morning at the Legislative Assembly.
Reforms on copyright matters, the last of twelve initiatives included on the CAFTA implementation Agenda, received the second and final approval, with the 38 votes of the G-38, an alliance comprised of PLN, the Libertarian Movement, PUSC and independent assemblymen. The 11 PAC assemblymen voted against the law.
Costa will ask the United States this week for an extension without a deadline to approve the last law required for CAFTA to come into force.
"I will see if they accept that when we make the pertinent modifications, which the Constitutional Court recommended, the commercial agreement will finally come into force," declared Oscar Arias, President of Costa Rica, in statements published in the La Prensa Libre newspaper.
Members of the committee on Constitutional Consultation began to review the analysis of the ruling by the Constitutional Court on the last project of the CAFTA implementation agenda.
The committee on Constitutional Consultation has 48 hours to present a report on how they plan to resolve the defects and flaws detected by the Court.
The Courts declared the last process of the CAFTA implementation agenda project illegal, stopping its progress in the Legislative Assembly
The resolution by magistrates stops the processing of the plan which would reform several laws that have to do with intellectual property and the law on biodiversity.
Lawmakers did not consult with the indigenous communities about the law and the judges considered this to be a procedural error.