Article 25 Political Constitution of the United Mexican States

The State is responsible for the stewardship of national development to guarantee that this is integral and sustainable, that it strengthens the Sovereignty of the Nation and its democratic regime and that, through competitiveness, the promotion of economic growth and employment and a more just distribution of income and wealth, it permits the full exercise of the freedom and dignity of the individuals, groups and social classes, whose security this Constitution protects. Competitiveness shall be understood as the set of conditions necessary to generate greater economic growth, promoting investment and the generation of employment.

The State shall watch over the stability of the public finances and of the financial system to collaborate in generating favorable conditions for economic growth and employment. The National Development Plan (Plan Nacional de Desarrollo) and the state and municipal plans shall observe said principle.

The State shall plan, conduct, coordinate and orient the national economic activity, and shall carry out the regulation and promotion of the activities that the general interest demands within the framework of the freedoms that this Constitution grants.

The public sector, the social sector and the private sector shall concur in national economic development, with social responsibility, without prejudice to other forms of economic activity that contribute to the development of the Nation.

The public sector shall have in its charge, in an exclusive manner, the strategic areas that are indicated in Article 28, fourth paragraph of the Constitution, the Federal Government always maintaining the property and the control over the public organisms and enterprises of the State that in its case are established. In the case of the planning and the control of the national electric system, and of the public service of transmission and distribution of electric energy, as well as of the exploration and extraction of oil and other hydrocarbons, the Nation shall carry out said activities in terms of the provisions of the sixth and seventh paragraphs of Article 27 of this Constitution. In the cited activities the law shall establish the rules relating to the administration, organization, functioning, contracting procedures and other legal acts that the public enterprises of the State celebrate, as well as the regime of remunerations of their personnel, to guarantee their effectiveness, efficiency, honesty, productivity, transparency and accountability, and shall determine the other activities that they may carry out.

Likewise it may participate by itself or with the social and private sectors, in accordance with the law, to promote and organize the priority areas of development.

Under criteria of social equity, productivity and sustainability, the enterprises of the social and private sectors of the economy shall be supported and promoted, subjecting them to the modalities that the public interest dictates and to the use, for general benefit, of the productive resources, taking care of their conservation and the environment.

The law shall establish the mechanisms that facilitate the organization and the expansion of the economic activity of the social sector: of the ejidos, organizations of employees, cooperatives, communities, enterprises that belong majority or exclusively to the employees and, in general, of all the forms of social organization for the production, distribution and consumption of socially necessary goods and services.

The law shall encourage and protect the economic activity that private individuals carry out and shall provide the conditions so that the development of the private sector contributes to national economic development, promoting competitiveness and implementing a national policy for sustainable industrial development that includes sectoral and regional aspects, in the terms established by this Constitution.

In order to contribute to the development and well-being of persons, groups, communities and social and economic sectors, the authorities of all orders of government shall implement public policies of administrative simplification and digitalization of procedures and services, good regulatory practices, development and strengthening of public technological capacities and the other objectives established by the national law on the matter.