The Assembly of El Salvador approved the legal framework that provides legal security to commercial relations, for the conclusion of contracts, transactions of goods and services between suppliers and consumers by electronic means.
The authorities informed that the regulation will enter into force one year after it has been published.
Exporters are preparing for the new regulation that will be implemented from 2020 in the U.S. market, among which is the application of a new table of nutritional data in packaged products.
Representatives of the Guatemalan Association of Exporters (Agexport) reported that both U.S.
In El Salvador, the Ministry of Economy drafted a bill to regulate the commercialization and importation of devices not compatible with digital television, but the Superintendence of Competition failed to endorse it.
At the end of 2018, the country began its transition to digital television, since the state-owned TV channel Canal 10 began broadcasting the open digital signal, and it was reported that in the next three years it will have to be implemented by private TV stations.
Limiting the fees charged in Costa Rica and establishing a law that defines market limits in Guatemala are part of the attempts being made in the region to regulate the use of credit cards.
A law proposal presented last January before the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, aims to regulate the percentage of the commission paid by businesses for credit or debit cards. According to the initiative, this task would be in charge of the Central Bank and the Commission to Promote Competition.
The normative that establishes the specifications to measure the quality, safety and duration of school footwear, as well as its raw materials and components for its manufacture, was presented.
The Minister of Economy, Luz Estrella Rodríguez, in her capacity as President of the National Quality Council (CNC), delivered the national technical standard for school footwear to the Ministry of Education (MINED) and the Chamber of the Footwear and Allied Industry of El Salvador (CALZAES).
In El Salvador, the union of industrialists is demanding the new Congress to focus on the creation of laws with emphasis on simplifying procedures and reducing bureaucracy.
In addition to the legislation related to regulatory improvements, the Salvadoran Association of Industrialists (ASI) proposed to the new deputies the need to accelerate the integration of El Salvador into the Customs Union between Guatemala and Honduras.
The first stage of reduction of procedures that the Salvadoran government plans to implement in the coming months will include eliminating duplication of procedures between entities.
The regulations that take will effect on November 1 allow administrators to create up to four different funds to bring together contributors depending on their age, among other innovations.
A proposal has been made for registration of companies to be certified directly in the National Center of Records, eliminating the high cost of certification through means of notaries.
In El Salvador reform of legislation on passenger transport has been proposed to "incorporate business models based on new telecommunications technologies."
From a report by the Superintendency of Competition in El Salvador:
The Board of Directors of theSuperintendency of Competition(CD) issued an opinion on land transportregulations, in relation to the provision of passenger transport services required by users through the use of digital platforms.
A bill introduced in the Legislative Assembly proposes regulating cooperatives and credit associations whose savings range from $30 million to $92 million.
The bill, prepared by the Federation of Association of Savings and Credit Cooperatives of El Salvador (Fedecaces), proposes establishing a different regulation, more appropriate to the size and characteristics of these entities.
From May 22 to 27 Panama will be hosting the ISOTC228 Committee meeting on Tourism and Related Services, which oversees the quality of tourism internationally.
From a statement issued by the Tourism Authority of Panama:
From May 22 to 27 Panama will be hosting the twelfth plenary meeting of the ISOTC228 Committee on Tourism and Related Services, an organization that aims to ensure the quality of tourism internationally.
Recommendations have been made to change the legal framework for the distribution market, because "in the process of ordering distribution as a natural monopoly, rules were introduced that permit competition."
From a statement issued by the Superintendency of Competition:
As of December 13 all processed and packaged food and beverages to be sold in the European Union must include detailed nutritional information.
From a statement issued by PROCOMER:
In 2014 in the European Union, the European Regulation on Information and Food Labelling (Regulation 1169/2011) came into force.The standard improves labeling on all products in order to provide useful, readable and understandable information to consumers.
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