Covington & Burling LLP (LexBlog Mexico)

Key Points López Obrador and the SCJN On November 7, 2023, the former President of Mexico’s SCJN, Arturo Zaldívar resigned prematurely, a year before the end of his term and after serving in the Court for 14 years. The day after his resignation, Mr. Zaldívar joined the campaign of López Obrador’s favored candidate to succeed...

Bottom Line Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador submitted bills to Congress intended to further curtail the rights of private investors in the mining sector and beyond.  As part of his resource nationalism agenda, on display in the energy sector at first, López Obrador has also nationalized lithium reserves and created a state‑owned company to...

This year has been off to a busy start with respect to children’s and minors’ privacy legislation efforts. We wanted to take a moment to recap the latest developments across the board. The most notable trend of the year thus far has been the widespread introduction of Age Appropriate Design Codes. Ten states have thus...

On December 14, 2022, the members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) (which includes various EU Member States, Mexico, Turkey, the UK and the United States) and the EU, adopted the Declaration on Government Access to Personal Data held by Private Sector Entities (“Declaration”).  The aim of the Declaration is to establish...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since entry into force of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”) in July 2020, the United States has brought two known complaints against Mexico under the Agreement’s Facility-Specific Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (“RRM”), concerning allegations that workers at two different factories in Mexico were being denied their fundamental right to organize. The Office of the...

President López Obrador has been a strong critic of independent regulators, including the anti-trust (COFECE) and telecommunications (IFT) regulators. COFECE is at an inflection point with a leadership transition this month while it continues to be under pressure from the López Obrador administration. Eliminating or reducing the autonomy of these bodies will undermine free market...

President López Obrador has been a strong critic of independent regulators, including the anti-trust (COFECE) and telecommunications (IFT) regulators. COFECE is at an inflection point with a leadership transition this month while it continues to be under pressure from the López Obrador administration. Eliminating or reducing the autonomy of these bodies will undermine free market...

The composition of the Chamber of Deputies of the new Congress will challenge President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s ability to enact constitutional changes and consolidate the agenda of his party, Morena. Companies should watch the coming budget battle in Congress because of its implications for the economy overall and for tax collection. Prospects for a...

On June 3, 2020, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released the Uniform Regulations elaborating on the rules of origin in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”). As the USMCA is slated to enter into force on July 1, 2020, the Uniform Regulations reflect the three parties’ consensus on how the USMCA’s rules of origin...

Last week’s negotiations held in Washington between Mexico and the United States were successful in suspending indefinitely president Donald Trump’s threat to impose an immediate 5% tax on all Mexican imports. These were set to go into force June 10 and escalate to 25% over time. In a series of tweets, the White House claimed...

Last week, New Mexico and Tennessee both passed legislation updating each state’s requirements for notifying residents following a data breach.  New Mexico’s new law, H.B. 15, makes it the 48th U.S. state to enact a state data breach notification law, leaving Alabama and South Dakota as the only states that have not enacted similar laws. ...

The implementing regulations of Mexico’s Federal Law for the Protection of Personal Data (the “Law”) came into effect on 22 December 2011.  The regulations have allowed the Law to finally fully enter into force.  As reported earlier, Mexico’s privacy law is the first piece of federal legislation to regulate how businesses handle personal information in...

Mexico’s data protection oversight body, the Federal Transparency and Data Protection Institute has indicated that it expects the draft implementing regulations that will bring into effect the new Mexican federal privacy statute to be ready in July of this year.  Introduced on July 6, 2010, Mexico’s “Federal Law Protecting Personal Data in Private Possession” is...