The delegated powers that the Congress of the nation granted the president Javier Milei by approval of the Base law They culminated last July, after a year of the sanction of the regulations. At the time they were in force, the Ministry of Deregulation and Transformation of the State, in charge of Federico Sturzeneggeradvanced in the repeal or modification of 1,076 standards. It is just about 15% of the planas clarified from the government.
Maximiliano FariñaDeputy Minister of Deregulation, participated in the GTIPA’S ARGENTINA SUMMIT 2025an international event organized by the Base International Foundation. There he gave details of the reformist program promoted by the libertarian administration.
“Since December 2023 we have almost 350 regulations and modify or repeal, counting the Base Law, 1,076 exactly. Still, there are thousands of more regulations that continue to make the entire Argentine regulatory system very complex,” he explained, who added that they still did not complete the thorough analysis of almost 700,000 decrees sanctioned in the last 100 years.
In this context of general deregulation, the government now clarifies that it has many more reforms in a folder and that only completed 15% of what it had programmed.
Fariña led the panel entitled “The reform and deregulation of the Argentine State.” There he provided details of the work done so far, where he stressed that they continue to reduce the number of public employees at a level of between 2,000 and 3,000 per month. He also gave clues of what they project in the future and made special emphasis on the objective of reducing the prices of medicines in particular, and the entire health sector in general.
The official said they had a year to work with Sturzenegger Before the creation of the Ministry and that was a key basis of success given the emergency demand that arises when one enters the public function. “Based on everything we work and we have written internally, we have barely done the 15% of deregulation we have thought, ”he said.
As considered, the most important aspect of regulation “is to understand that the regulations is a monopoly because the user is tied to the rules set by the State.” “In a monopoly citizens and companies end up paying a much higher cost,” he questioned.
The three axes of the deregulation that the government promotes
Fariña He provided details about the work methodology and explained that they are in a “Second stage of deregulation”which consists of a verification process on what standards have to exist and which ones need to be reformed or repealed. Before moving on to a third stage, which will focus on a regulatory digitalization and optimization, the vice minister said that it makes no sense to improve processes when half of a rule has no sense of existence, since that would imply continuing to waste resources.
At the same time, he described that the basis of work deregulation was concentrated on 3 axes: detect artificially damaged relative prices, consultations to citizenship and activity with the association and business chambers. In the latter aspect, Fariña warned that it is the “most complex collaboration area because the idea of lobby in the country is still very present, where they seek to achieve privileged agreements through pressures.”
In the event, Argentina served as a global deregulation reference and Fariña offered a general panorama in front of entrepreneurs and NGOs International In addition to this panel, the appointment had a nuclear energy conference with the exhibition of Federico Ramos Nápoli, CEO of Dioxitek. The other panels dealt with the boom of lithium, free trade, regional competitiveness, life sciences and the flourishing Fintech ecosystem.
Source: Ambito
