During the first months of this year, the infectious respiratory disease known as COVID-19, caused by one of the viruses that conform the coronavirus family, has been disseminated in different parts of the world. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 as a pandemic and issued a series of provisional recommendations ...
Relative to the pandemic declared by the World Health Organization due to the COVID-19 outbreak, below please find our analysis, impact and the various implications and legal effects that the spread of the so-called Coronavirus has on labor relations in Mexico ...
As of March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as an international pandemic, which besides the unfortunate health implications, it will produce a wide range of legal and economic impacts and challenges ...
Due to the health crisis derived from the COVID-19 virus, declared as pandemic by the World Health Organization on March, 11, 2020, the US and Mexican governments released a joint statement, by which travel restrictions are established, in order to reduce the spreading of the COVID-19 as it is paramount to ensure the health of nationals of both countries and at the same time, protecting cross- border essential economic and employment activities ...
The current uncertainty in the world economy and the losses in the national stock market, generates concern about possible damage to the economy, derived from the pandemic caused by the virus COVID-19 ...
On March 24, Juan Carlos Jiménez Rojas, General Director of the Mexican Banking Association (Asociación de Bancos de México) (“ABM“), sent a letter to the President of the National Banking and Securities Commission (Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores) (“View More
On March 24, 2020, Mexico’s Ministry of Health issued preventive measures, sanctioned by the President, that must be implemented by the public and private sectors for the mitigation and control of health risks associated with the disease caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus (COVID-19) ...
On March 20, 2020 the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) published in the Federal Official Gazette an administrative resolution declaring the suspension of all terms and proceedings before such authority from March 23 to April 19, 2020. As per the resolution issued by CNH, all terms applicable to administrative procedures before CNH shall be extended and will continue running on April 20, 2020 ...
On March 27, 2020, the Federal Economic Competition Commission, Mexico’s antitrust regulatory agency, (“COFECE”, for its Spanish initials) issued a press release in relation to its stance in relation to the health emergency in Mexico ...
On March 27, 2020 the Mexican Health Ministry published in the Federal Official Gazette a Presidential Decree by means of which extraordinary measures are released to face COVID-19 in those regions that are being affected ...
As the pandemic situation caused by the COVID-19 virus advances in the world, the search for a vaccine will be a primary activity in which pharmaceutical scientists and laboratories will focus their efforts. This priority objective will not only have humanitarian and material effects, but also legal situations that shall be analyzed, since that invention could obtain legal protection under the figure of a patent ...
In the evening edition of the Federation’s Official Gazette of March 30, 2020, the General Health Council issued a resolution by which declared the epidemic caused by CoV2 (COVID-19) as a sanitary emergency due to force majeure ...
Due to the reforms and additions to the General Health Act in matters of obesity and labeling of food and non-alcoholic beverages setting a frontal warning system, published in the Federal Official Gazette (Spanish Acronym - DOF) on November 8, 2019 ...
The Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE - Spanish initials) issued a press release on March 30, 2020, regarding a warning issued to the National Sugar and Alcohol Industry Trade Association (CNIAA - Spanish initials). In this press release, several members of said industry group, due to an increase in the price of pure alcohol, its-by-products, and some inputs used in its production, such as molasses ...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) published an administrative resolution declaring the extension of the suspension of all terms and proceedings before such authority until April 30, 2020. This resolution was published in the Federal Official Gazette on April 07, 2020. The administrative resolution A / 014/2020 published today amends CRE's prior resolution A / 010/2020 dated March 24, 2020 (which previously suspended all terms and proceedings from March 24 to April 17, 2020) ...
The protection of personal data has been one of the topics of analysis at the global level during the pandemic due to the expansion of SARS-CoV-2 that causes the disease COVID-19. As an example, it is enough to observe the measures taken by the governments of Germany and South Korea in excessive population monitoring, or the development of applications for the location of people before the isolation measures to prevent the spread of the virus ...
We have previously reported on the Order that adopted the extraordinary measures under the COVID-19 health emergency declaration, published on March 31, 2020 (the “Order”), and the subsequent Technical Guidelines regarding certain essential activities described in the Order published on April 6, 2020. (These alerts may be found here and here, respectively ...
We have previously reported on the order that adopted the extraordinary measures under the COVID-19 health emergency declaration, published on March 31, 2020 (the “Order”), and the Technical Guidelines regarding certain essential activities described in Order, published on April 6, 2020 ...
In the evening version of the Federation’s Official Gazette of March 24, 2020, the head of the Ministry of Health, Jorge Carlos Alcocer Varela, M.D., published some preventive measures to mitigate and control the health risks derived from the COVID-19 pandemic.Minutes later, the Presidential Decree that sanctioned such measures was also published ...
In April 2020, SEMARNAT published the Accord by means of which the public is made aware of the days that will be considered as non-business days for purposes of the acts and administrative procedures ...
On May 06, 2020 the National Hydrocarbons Commission (“CNH) published in the Federal Official Gazette an administrative resolution declaring the extension of the suspension of all terms and proceedings before such authority until May 31, 2020. The above determination was made considering the sanitary emergency that Mexico and the world is facing in connection with the disease known as coronavirus or COVID-19 ...
On April 29, 2020, the National Center of Energy Control (“CENACE”) released an administrative resolution (the “Resolution”) to guarantee the efficiency, reliability, quality, continuity and safety of the Electric National System due to the pandemic disease COVID-19 ...
In the morning edition of the Federation’s Official Gazette of May 14, 2020, the Ministry of Health issued a resolution to establish the strategy for the reopening of social, educational and economic activities due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as a regional process to assess the epidemiological risk in each state based on a colored “traffic light” system, which will be in effect until the day the sanitary emergency is declared terminated ...
