Despite the fact that the Government had several months to prepare the National Development Plan 2022-2026, the bill had several changes at the last minute. Among them, some related to mining, education, defense or sports issues, among others.
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One of the new articles is the one that says that from 2024 the balances of checking or savings accounts that were inactive for more than a year and do not exceed 322 UVT (about 13.6 million pesos) were destined to the icetex.
Likewise, at the last minute, the article was inserted indicating that the Ministry of Education will carry out the necessary actions to implement basic education and the media under a hybrid model (face-to-face and distance classes).
The article that prohibits the development of new mining projects for the extraction of coal ended in the open pit classified as large-scale or another that says that an industrial compensation will be created so that all military or defense purchases require, at least, a 10 percent transfer of technology to the Colombian industry and academia.
The National Development Plan 2022 – 2026 «Colombia World Power of Life».
With the objective of achieving a balance in the conditions of competition for national production against imports, the Government also put a smart tariff and trade defense.
Among the new compared to the draft known last week is also the creation of a Fund Account of the Ministry of Sport for the development of projects and/or activities, the creation of the Zero Waste Program, headed by the Ministry of Housing, and that the national Government will implement a new National Drug Policy with a ten-year projection in a participatory and inclusive manner.
