Article 26 Political Constitution of the United Mexican States

A.The State shall organize a system of democratic planning of national development that imparts solidity, dynamism, competitiveness, permanence and equity to the growth of the economy for the independence and the political, social and cultural democratization of the nation.

The purposes of the national project contained in this Constitution shall determine the objectives of the planning. The planning shall be democratic and deliberative. Through the mechanisms of participation established by law, it shall collect the aspirations and demands of society to incorporate them into the plan and the development programs. There shall be a national development plan to which the programs of the Federal Public Administration shall be mandatorily subject.

The law shall empower the Executive so that it establishes the procedures of participation and popular consultation in the national system of democratic planning, and the criteria for the formulation, instrumentation, control and evaluation of the plan and the development programs. Likewise, it shall determine the organs responsible for the planning process and the bases so that the Federal Executive coordinates through agreements with the governments of the states (federal entities) and induces and concerts with private individuals the actions to be carried out for its elaboration and execution. The national development plan shall consider the continuity and necessary adaptations of the national policy for industrial development, with sectoral and regional aspects.

In the system of democratic and deliberative planning, the Congress of the Union shall have the intervention indicated by law.

B.The State shall have a National System of Statistical and Geographic Information (Sistema Nacional de Información Estadística y Geográfica) whose data shall be considered official. For the Federation, the states (federal entities), the Municipalities and the territorial demarcations of Mexico City, the data contained in the System shall be of mandatory use in the terms established by law.

The responsibility of regulating and coordinating said System shall be in charge of an organism with technical and management autonomy, legal personality and its own patrimony, with the faculties necessary to regulate the collection, processing and publication of the information that is generated and to provide for its observance.

The organism shall also be in charge of the measurement of poverty and the evaluation of the programs, objectives, goals and actions of the social development policy, as well as of issuing recommendations in the terms that the law provides, which shall establish the forms of coordination with the federal, local and municipal authorities for the exercise of these functions.

The organism shall have a Governing Board integrated by five members, one of whom shall serve as President of it and of the organism itself; they shall be designated by the President of the Republic with the approval of the Senate or, in its recesses, by the Permanent Commission of the Congress of the Union.

The law shall establish the bases of organization and functioning of the National System of Statistical and Geographic Information, in accordance with the principles of accessibility to information, transparency, objectivity and independence; the requirements that the members of the Governing Board must fulfill, the duration and staggering of their charge.

The members of the Governing Board may only be removed for a serious cause and may not have any other employment, charge or commission, with the exception of those non-remunerated in educational, scientific, cultural or charitable institutions; and they shall be subject to the provisions of the Fourth Title of this Constitution.

The organism shall calculate in the terms indicated by law, the value of the Measurement and Updating Unit (Unidad de Medida y Actualización) that shall be used as unit of account, index, base, measure or reference to determine the amount of the payment of the obligations and cases provided for in the federal laws, of the states (federal entities) and of the Federal District, as well as in the legal provisions that emanate from all of the foregoing.

The obligations and cases denominated in Units of Measurement and Updating shall be considered of determined amount and shall be settled by delivering their equivalent in national currency. For this purpose, the amount of the obligation or case, expressed in the cited units, must be multiplied by the value of said unit at the corresponding date.

C.Repealed