Juarez City.- With the publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation, as of this Tuesday the General Law on Humanities, Sciences, Technologies and Innovation (HCTI) will enter into force.
As of the entry into force of this Law, approved in fast track and rejected by a broad sector of the scientific community, the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) becomes the National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (Conahcyt) .
The decree published this Monday in the evening edition of the DOF orders the competent authorities to terminate in advance the agreements and contracts that are contrary to the law, in “benefit of the public interest.”
Within a period of no more than 180 days, the National Council and the Public Research Centers (CPI) must terminate in advance the management agreements for results that they have entered into.
The expenditures generated by the entry into force of the law, he points out, will be covered by the budget approved for Conahcyt and the CPIs, “so no additional resources will be authorized” for this purpose.
It establishes that, within one year, counted from the entry into force of this Law, the National Council will issue the corresponding regulatory and administrative provisions.
The so-called “Buylla Law”, according to its critics, “militarizes science, withdraws autonomy in the administration and management of scientific work in the country, violates the budget assigned to science, limits scientific freedom by constraining it to a National Agenda established from the Government and discriminates against students and academics from private institutions.
Dissatisfied academics and institutions have accused discrimination because the new law leaves out from the National System of Researchers (SNI) those who are attached to private institutions, since they are not subject to receiving the incentives granted by the State for scientific production; Furthermore, it discourages public-private collaboration in research.
After the call for a national strike of academics and students on May 2 in repudiation of the new law, the dissatisfied scientific union organized a march for May 28.
