EI Sourcebook | Latin America

Latin America

Introduction

Please see below for example policy, legal and contractual attachments specifically concerned with Latin America. Some relate to oil and gas, some to mining and some to both of these two parts of the extractive industries. In the former cases, this specificity is indicated below either in the document title or in parentheses directly afterwards. These attachments represent a range of model contracts issued by states, actual (example) contracts and agreements between states and the private sector and, finally, laws, byelaws and codes ("laws"). It is this split which is shown below.

Model Agreements

Brazil Model Concession Agreement, Oil & Gas;

Colombia Exploration & Exploitation Oil and Gas Model Contract, 2004;

Model Contract with Pemex Exploration & Production, Mexico (Oil and Gas); and

Trinidad & Tobago Model Production Sharing Contract (Oil and Gas).

Example Agreements, Laws & Regulations

Legal Stability Agreement, Chile (in Spanish), 1987 (Oil and Gas), (Santiago: Official Gazette, 1987).

Legal Stability of Contracts Law, Colombia (in Spanish), 2005, (Bogota: Official Gazette, 2005). NB read an extensive commentary on this Law on the Colombia Law and Press blog;

Legal Stability Agreement, Peru (in Spanish), 2007, (Lima: Agencia de Promocion de la Inversion Privada, 2007 ;

Venezuela JVC Accord & Bylaws, 2006 (Oil and Gas), (Caracas: Official Gazette, 2006);

Chile Mining Code (State Ownership and Mineral Rights), (Santiago: Official Gazette, 2005); and

Law No. 18.097 Organic Constitutional Law on Mining Concessions (Chile), (Santiago: Official Gazette, 1982).

Within This Chapter

	Mining Specifics		Oil & Gas Specifics
			Latin America

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