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Regulations to promote the use of green and blue hydrogen in Colombia were adopted

Through Decree 1476 of 2022, issued by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, rules were adopted to establish the mechanisms, conditions, and incentives to promote local development, innovation, research, production, storage, transportation, distribution and use of hydrogen, whose destination is the provision of public electricity service, energy storage, and decarbonization of sectors such as transportation, gas, hydrocarbons, mining and industry.

Modifications to the rules of collective investment funds

By means of Decree 1387 of 2022, the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit modified the regulation on the minimum amount of participations in Collective Investment Funds and authorized the participation of certain entities in the capital of national or international parent companies resulting from the integration of stock exchanges. From now on, the active collective investment funds must have a minimum equity defined in the respective regulation, which may not be less than the equivalent of thirty-nine thousand five hundred (39,500) Tax Value Units (“UVT”).

New agreement of the ANH for the administration of contracts

By means of Agreement 5 of 2022, the National Hydrocarbons Agency (hereinafter, "ANH") delivered guidelines for the administration of contracts for hydrocarbon exploration and production activities, which includes technical evaluation contracts, hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation contracts, hydrocarbon agreements.

This is how the registry of non-paying child support debtors will operate

The Ministry of Information, Technologies and Communications, (hereinafter, "MinTic "), issued Decree 1310 of 2022, which regulates the operation of the registry of non-paying child support debtors (Spanish Acronym - REDAM). This registry was created through Law 2097 of 2021 as a mechanism to guarantee the compliance of child-support obligations, in it, the data of people who owe at least three maintenance installments will be registered.

The registry of hematopoietic progenitor cell (CPH) donors is created

The President of the Republic sanctioned Law 2253 of 2022, by means of which the Official National Public Registry of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Donors (RNDCPH) is created, whose main objective is to facilitate the search for donors of this type of cells and their connection with recipient patients who require them. The RNDCPH must be created within 2 years, will be operated by the National Institute of Health (INS), and must have measures to guarantee the confidentiality of donor and recipient information in each phase.