The Ministries of Economy and Productive Development reported this Friday that the transfer of the Ministry of Internal Trade to the orbit of the Palacio de Hacienda was resolved, as part of a reorganization of functions to strengthen actions linked to productive reactivation and addressing the inflation problem.
The measures announced after a meeting held by the Ministers of Economy, Martín Guzmán, and of Productive Development, Matías Kulfas, will be materialized in a presidential decree where the corresponding changes in structures and functions will be reflected.
On the one hand, the Internal Trade Secretariat will become functionally dependent on the Ministry of Economy, where Secretary Roberto Feletti will continue in his position.
The transfer will exclude some specific functions that will depend on the Secretariat of Industry in the Ministry of Productive Development.
On the other hand, according to the announcement, There will be some modifications within the Ministry of Productive Development, since the current Undersecretary of Knowledge Economy will be hierarchized, which will have the rank of Secretariat, and the area of Supplier Development and Buy Argentine, will become Undersecretary.
Likewise, the Social Capital Fund (FONCAP) will modify its functional dependency from the Ministry of Economy to the Ministry of Productive Development, in the Secretariat of Small and Medium Enterprises and Entrepreneurs.
In order to coordinate investment plans and generate strategic plans, the National Coordination of Public Industrial Companies (CONEPI) will be created within the scope of the Ministry of Industry and External Commercial Management, and in addition, the Ministry of Productive Development will have representatives in certain industrial public companies.
And, the National Development Council XXI Century (CONADE XXI) will be created in order to institutionalize the scope of productive development planning and the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Productive Argentina Plan 2030, whose Executive Director will be Daniel Schteingart.
