The Pension Regime shall be regulated and supervised by a Superintendency of Pensions, as a body of maximum deconcentration, with instrumental legal personality and capacity, and attached to the Banco Central de Costa Rica. The Superintendency of Pensions shall authorize, regulate, supervise, and oversee the plans, funds, and regimes contemplated in this law, as well as those entrusted to it by virtue of other laws, and the activity of pension operators, of the entities authorized to administer labor capitalization funds, and of the natural or legal persons who intervene, directly or indirectly, in the acts or contracts related to the provisions of this law.
The Superintendency of Pensions shall have a Superintendent and an Intendent, appointed by the Council, who shall be governed by Articles 172 and 173 of the Securities Market Regulatory Law (Ley Reguladora del Mercado de Valores), No. 7732, of December 17, 1997. Both must be present at the sessions where the Council meets to address the matters of the Superintendency of Pensions.
The provisions of Article 151 of Law No. 7732, Securities Market Regulatory Law (Ley Reguladora del Mercado de Valores), of December 17, 1997, shall apply to the Superintendency of Pensions (Supén). In addition, the superintendent, the intendent, employees, advisors, and any other person, natural or legal, who provides services to the Superintendency of Pensions shall be subject to the prohibition on disclosing information, provided for in Article 166 of that law. Excepted from the foregoing are the disclosure of aggregated statistical information and any other information whose disclosure is mandated by this law or Law No. 7983, Worker Protection Law (Ley de Protección al Trabajador), of February 16, 2000.
(The preceding paragraph was thus added by Article 12 of Law No. 9746 of October 16, 2019) (As amended by Article 79 of Law No. 7983 of February 16, 2000).