On September 29, 2026, the President of the Republic issued Executive Decree No. 515, published in the Ninth Supplement of Official Registry No. 380 of September 30, 2026, whereby the General Regulations to the Organic Law of the Public Electricity Service (RLOSPEE) were amended.Below is a brief summary of the most relevant amendments:Read More
Through Resolution No. ARCOM-006/26 dated June 23, 2026, published in the Fifth Supplement of Official Gazette No. 312 of June 24, 2026, the Board of Directors of the Mining Regulation and Control Agency (ARCOM) amended Resolution No. ARCOM-003/25, which regulated the provisions applicable to the Mining Supervision and Control Fee.Read More
On September 2, 2026, the Organic Reform Law to the Organic Environmental Code was published in the Fifth Supplement to Official Registry No. 360. This law expressly legalized and regulated Ecuador’s participation in carbon markets.Below is a brief summary of the most relevant provisions:The Interinstitutional Climate Change Committee...Read More
On May 20, 2026, the Ministerial Agreement MAE-MAE-2026-0057-AM, dated April 30, 2026, was published in the Second Supplement to Official Gazette No. 288. Through this agreement, the Ministry of Environment and Energy issued the Guidelines establishing the minimum parameters for Framework Commercial Agreements and Specific Commercial Agreements to be entered into by the National Mining Company ENAMI EP (hereinafter, ENAMI EP).Read More
The current legal provisions enable the participation of the private sector in electricity generation activities through various models, each with its own particularities, opportunities, and benefits, which we outline in general terms below:Read More
On December 15, 2025, the National Council of Labor and Wages, following several tripartite meetings attended by representatives from the Government, workers, and employers, agreed to set the Unified Basic Salary (SBU) for general workers at US $482.00 (four hundred eighty-two and 00/100 United States dollars) for the year 2026.Read More
The President of the Republic, Daniel Noboa Azín, through Executive Decree No. 249, dated December 17, 2025, ordered the suspension of the workday on Friday, January 2, 2026, for both the public and private sectors nationwide. This measure aims to incorporate said date into the national holiday New Year's holiday (January 1), which will now extend from January 1 to 4, 2026.Read More
The Mining Regulation and Control Agency (ARCOM), through Resolution No. ARCOM-009/25 dated October 29, 2025 —published in the Sixth Supplement of the Official Registry No. 158 on November 6, 2025—, issued the guidelines governing the “seizure, confiscation, management, delivery, disposal, destruction, neutralization, and/or demolition of equipment, goods, inputs, machinery, and vehicles used in illegal mining activities, as well as the mineralized material derived therefrom.”Read More
On October 16, 2025, the Board of Directors of the Agency for the Regulation and Control of Electricity (ARCONEL) approved Regulation No. ARCONEL 005/25, titled “Regulation to Promote Generation with Non-Conventional Renewable Energy (ERNC) Greater than 10 MW and Less than or Equal to 100 MW”. This regulation establishes the technical and procedural framework for the development of generation projects using non-conventional renewable energy sources with a capacity greater than 10 MW and less than or equal to 100 MW.Read More
The President of the Republic, Daniel Noboa Azín, through Executive Decree No. 72, dated October 2, 2025, ordered the suspension of the workday on October 9, 2025, for both the public and private sectors nationwide. This measure aims to incorporate said date into the national holiday, which will now extend from October 9 to October 12, 2025.Read More
