The Minister shall be the governing authority of the Natural Resources, Energy and Mines sector.
(*) (The name of the Ministry was thus reformed by Article 48, subsection a) of Law No. 8660 of August 8, 2008, Law for the Strengthening and Modernization of Public Entities in the Telecommunications Sector.)
(**)(Its name modified by Article 11 of Law "Transfer of the Telecommunications sector from the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications to the Ministry of Science and Technology," No. 9046 of June 25, 2012)