7788, the National System of Conservation Areas (Sistema Nacional de Áreas de Conservación, SINAC) is an organ of maximum deconcentration of the Ministry of Environment and Energy (*), which has instrumental legal capacity and is a deconcentrated and participatory institutional management and coordination system, which will integrate competencies in forest, wildlife, and protected area matters, for the purpose of issuing policies, planning, and executing processes aimed at achieving sustainability in the management of Costa Rica's natural resources.
(*)(Its name thus modified by Article 11 of the 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)