Resumption Of Deadlines And Legal Terms At SENER

Executive Summary

• On March 25, 2020, SENER established the suspension of deadlines and legal terms as a measure to prevent and combat the spread of COVID-19. 
• On February 17, 2023, SENER published the Agreement by which legal terms and deadlines are resumed in the Secretariat.
• Such Agreement proposes to resume the legal terms and deadlines for all formalities, procedures, and any activity within the competence of SENER as of March 1, 2023.

On March 25, 2020, SENER published in the Official Gazette of the Federation ("DOF") an Agreement establishing the suspension of deadlines and legal terms in the Ministry of Energy (the "SENER") as a measure to prevent and combat the spread of COVID-19. 

Such Agreement was modified three times and, finally, the suspension was extended indefinitely until it was determined that there were no epidemiological risks related to the gradual, cautious, and orderly opening of SENER's activities.

Thus, on February 17, 2023, SENER published in the DOF the Agreement whereby the legal terms and deadlines in the Secretariat are resumed (the "Agreement"). Such Agreement proposes the following:

1. To resume the legal terms and deadlines for all formalities, procedures, and any activity within the competence of SENER and its deconcentrated administrative bodies as of March 1, 2023..

2. The legal terms in charge of SENER that have been interrupted within the period included during the suspension (originally started on March 25, 2020) will be considered extended for the same number of days that included the original period so that the actions, notifications, requirements, requests or promotions filed before SENER during the suspension period will be attended according to their order of priority as from March 1, 2023, and priority in their attention will be given to those filed before the date of publication of the Agreement in the DOF.

3. Establish, concerning the Social Impact Assessments received by SENER as of April 12, 2021, that the resolution terms outlined in Article 40 of the General Administrative Provisions on the Social Impact Assessment in the Energy Sector will be computed considering the chronological order of presentation, under the legal principle of first in time first in right, as of March 2, 2023.

4. To confirm the operation, location, and opening hours of the Common Office and to indicate that the electronic systems corresponding to the attention of procedures by such means remain in operation. The Agreement will enter into force on March 1, 2023.

The Agreement will enter into force on March 1, 2023.

The original publication of the Agreement is available here: https://sidof.segob.gob.mx/notas/5679953

Authors

Juan Carlos Machorro
Partner
+52 55 5279 5463
jmachorro@s-s.mx

Norma Álvarez
Associate
+52 55 5279 5415
norma.alvarez@s-s.mx

Pablo Ortiz Mena
Associate
+52 55 5279 5499
pablo.ortizmena@s-s.mx