38915-H, published in La Gaceta No. 61 of March 27, 2015, and its amendments, the General Directives on Budgetary, Salary, Employment, Investment, and Indebtedness Policy for the year 2016 were issued, establishing in article 5 that the budgetary expenditure of public entities and decentralized bodies for the year 2016 may not exceed the amount incorporated in the 2015 ordinary budget, deducting non-recurring expenditures, provided they do not correspond to multi-year investment projects, as well as transfers that must be made by legal mandate. In accordance with said provision, the maximum budgetary expenditure amount for the year 2016 resulting for SINAC was established at the sum of ¢31,374,328,237.00 (thirty-one thousand three hundred seventy-four million three hundred twenty-eight thousand two hundred thirty-seven colones exactly), which was communicated in official letter STAP-0599-2015 of April 28, 2015; this amount was modified again through official letter STAP-0044-2016 of January 18, 2016, being set at the sum of ¢33,363,051,931.00 (thirty-three thousand three hundred sixty-three million fifty-one thousand nine hundred thirty-one colones exactly).
Subsequently, it was modified, being communicated through official letter STAP-0285-2016 of March 15, 2016, in which it was set at ¢36,503,744,031.00 (thirty-six thousand five hundred three million seven hundred forty-four thousand thirty-one colones exactly); a figure that does not contemplate the expenditure previously indicated in this decree.