INFRASTRUCTURE I ANIN I NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUTHORITY: PROJECT PORTFOLIO, TRUST AND ALL THAT COMES | economy

ANIN has several functions, of which four may be mentioned.. Execute investment plans or projects under your responsibility or create them upon request; Maintenance of infrastructure, equipment and furniture of implemented projects or investment projects for 4 years; Creating, implementing, improving or protecting civil defense infrastructure works to prevent disasters; Exercising powers of acquisition and expropriation while executing plans or schemes.

It can also be added Administers and signs agreements, contracts and/or conventions connected with carrying out its mission; and evaluates and guarantees that the technical studies and specialist consultations attached to the technical file of the projects and programs in its portfolio conform to the required technical parameters.

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During its discussion in Parliament, before becoming law, it was questioned that ANIN would be a copy of the Commission for Reconstruction (ARCC) with modifications. However, during the project’s support in the Decentralization Commission, Prime Minister Alberto Otterola, ANIN, for example, It will be attached to the leadership of the Council of Ministers (PCM), will have a budget statement, which will be ad hoc and non-exceptional..

Project portfolio

The existing portfolio of infrastructure projects or investment projects under ANIN shall comply with: Must have an investment amount equal to or greater than S/ 200 million, must be included in a current multi-year investment plan and have no physical operations. The project portfolio is established and updated by the Supreme Command.

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Although the portfolio can include investment projects or projects in infrastructure without physical activity, the investment amount is between S/ 40 and S/ 200 million, “Only in the case of a regional development approach within a specific geographical area and joint multilateral interventions with a high economic or social impact, or (…) in emergency situations due to natural disasters, notified by the competent authority”.

ANIN is authorized to use contract engineering models of international standard application, in addition to the application of state procurement law in these cases. Further Resource management agreements can be signed and government-to-government (G2G) contracts or agreements can be used.

Programs or programs meet a Physical activity improvement 30% They can be incorporated into ANIN’s projects or portfolio of projects within 5 years from the entry into force of the Act.

Beliefs

As mentioned above, ANIN will receive allocations as per the general budget. Additionally, ANIN will be approved Sign agreement and trust agreements with the Development Finance Corporation (COFAIT)., “Intervenor as trustee and administrator of trusts where projects or investment projects are implemented and created through the agreement of project management structures”.

This is a topic that has been included in discussions at the Decentralization Commission for more than a month.

On this point, commented Eduardo Escobal, international PPP and infrastructure consultant and former Cofide business manager. Trust counts are a viable local alternative to G2G contracts. “The Foundation will contract private PMOs so that they manage the implementation of public works, with best private and public practices abroad or in the country.”Commented on their networks.

The executive branch is expected to meet Provide for annexation by absorbing the Commission for Reconstruction with amendments to ANIN.

ANIN, the path to follow?

Creation of ANIN does not guarantee that major infrastructure works will be disrupted in the short term. To Juan Jose Cardenas, partner Dhamma Legal Consultants, “ANIN should get a ministerial position, something like the Ministry of Public Works in Chile.”

The Association for Development of National Infrastructure (AFIN) announced Management what, “The formation of ANIN creates more doubts because it does not specify what will happen to other state agencies that carry out the tasks.”

“It is also worrisome that the planning phase is not included in the powers of this new body because the ministries are not looking at this important point and that is why we are seeing so many conflicting plans.” highlights the association.

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ANIN will be affiliated to PCM and will have operational, administrative, technical and economic autonomy. The Head of the Authority shall be appointed by a Supreme Resolution approved by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Its administrative term will be four years, with one immediate subsequent renewal, and removal for serious misconduct.

“The good thing is that it will be a regulated position. The appointed person will have to fulfill the criteria to occupy it May not be changed for political reasons“Cárdenas points out.

AFIN, in its opinion, raised other observations that should be contemplated in the legislation constituting the ANIN.

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“We want to see important things in this plan about how to improve planning by investing more in engineering and incorporating environmental, social and property costs at their source. Fixing ‘constraints’ that block many investment projects. It is in that area that we appreciate some shortcomings”.

A major concern regarding the creation of this new public body is the way it interacts with ministries currently responsible for large public infrastructure projects such as the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC), the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation (MVCS) and the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Risk (Midagri).

“Government has fixed 60 days to approve the regulation of the law and 90 days to formulate the regulation of activities for the structural organization of ANIN”Reminds Cardenas.

Depending on the publication of these documents, the degree of redundancy of its functions can be determined depending on the existing ones. ANIN’s objective is to reduce the implementation time of infrastructure projects and not add additional bureaucracy to their implementation.