Presidential Decree No. 223/20 approving the Statute of the Ministry of Energy and Water (MINEA).

This Presidential Decree approves the Statute of the Ministry of Energy and Water (MINEA). The Statute, consisting of 22 articles divided into four Chapters and two Annexes, establishes composition, duties and responsibilities of the MINEA, as an auxiliary Ministerial Department of the President of the Republic. Its main purpose is to propose the formulation, conduct, execution and control of the Executive's policy in the fields of energy and water. In addition, the Ministry shall: propose and promote the execution of the policy to be pursued by the Energy and Water sectors; establish strategies, promote and coordinate the rational use of energy and water resources, ensuring their sustainable development; draw up, within the framework of the general planning of the country's economic and social development, sectoral plans relating to the areas of action; propose and promote the national policy on electrification, the general use of water resources, their protection and conservation, as well as the water supply and wastewater sanitation policy; promote research activities with repercussions in the respective areas of activity; elaborate legislation on the legal framework for the energy, water and wastewater sanitation sectors; propose the institutional model for carrying out the activities of production, transport, distribution and sale of electricity and promote its implementation, etc.