The Council's headquarters shall be in the coordinating ministry, which shall provide the necessary personnel to work as a technical secretariat, which must provide support, assistance, and execution control for the decisions it makes, in the exercise of its legal powers, in accordance with the sectoral plans and the National Development and Public Investment Plan.
It is the responsibility of the Consultative Council to evaluate and recommend to the Executive Branch additional indebtedness in excess of the indebtedness authorized by numeral 2 of Article 14 of Law 8660, Strengthening and Modernization of Public Entities of the Telecommunications Sector, of August 8, 2008, that is required by State enterprises in the electricity, telecommunications, and infocommunications sectors.
The decisions of the Consultative Council on Energy and Telecommunications shall be adopted by a qualified majority, and the recommendation must be reasoned, in accordance with the provisions of Law 6227, General Law of Public Administration, of May 2, 1978; to this end, it must resolve within a non-extendable period of fifty calendar days, counted from the receipt of the respective request. The administrative aspects of this body shall be defined by regulation.
The Consultative Council must act in strict adherence to the administrative, technical, and financial autonomy granted to State enterprises in the electricity, telecommunications, and infocommunications sectors.
(Thus reformed by Article 20 of the National Public Investment System Law, No. 10441 of March 13, 2024)
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