National Energy Policy Council
The National Energy Policy Council, created on August 6th, 1997, is an advisory organ to the President of the Republic on the formulation of policies and guidelines on energy. These policies and guidelines are designed to promote the rational use of energy resources in the country; ensure the supply of energy inputs to more remote or difficult areas in the country according to regional characteristics and submitting the specific measures to the National Congress; periodically review the energy matrix applied to the different regions of the country while considering both conventional and alternative sources, and the technologies available; establish guidelines for specific programs, such as for the use of natural gas, alcohol, other types of biomass, coal, thermonuclear energy, biofuels, solar energy, wind energy and energy from alternative sources; establish guidelines for the import and export so as to meet the needs of the domestic consumption of oil and its derivatives, natural gas and gas condensate. It was comprised of 14 councilors in 2016.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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