The Ordinary Official Gazette number 78 published this Monday, with its complementary resolutions, six decree-laws and two decrees aimed at the country’s non-state economic actors, as part of the actions aimed at correcting distortions and reviving the economy.

The new legal provisions will come into force in 30 days and are Decree-Laws 88 «On micro, small and medium-sized enterprises» (MSMEs), 89 «On non-agricultural cooperatives» (CNA), 90 «On the exercise of self-employment» (TCP) and 91 «On contraventions in these three modalities».

There are also Decree-Laws 92 «On the special social security regime for self-employed workers, members of CNAs and private MSMEs and owners of local development projects», and 93 Modifying Law 113 «On the tax system», all issued by the Council of State.

The Official Gazette also published Council of Ministers decrees 107 «On activities not authorised to be carried out by micro, small and medium-sized private enterprises, non-agricultural cooperatives and self-employed workers», and 108 «On the creation of the National Institute of Non-State Economic Actors, to be headed by Mercedes López Acea».

Its creation was announced before the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) last July by Manuel Marrero Cruz, member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister of the Republic, when he gave an update on the government’s projections for correcting distortions and relaunching the economy in 2024, with the incorporation of other actions.

At a press conference today in the capital, the president of the new institute and senior officials of the main bodies linked to these forms of management gave details of the importance and necessity of such provisions.

These regulations, aimed at organising the actions of non-state actors and making them true complements to the Cuban economy, are not the only ones that apply to them, nor were they conceived now, because since 2021, when the first regulations were approved, they have been updated every two years.

This was said at the press conference given by López Acea and Johana Odriozola Guitart, deputy minister of Economy and Planning; first deputy ministers Maritza Cruz García, of Finance and Prices, and Yosvany Pupo Otero, of Domestic Trade, and by Carmen Rosa López Rodríguez, director of Non-State Employment of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.

They explained that the six decree-laws, the two decrees and the complementary resolutions are the result of an extensive process of consultation and analysis at all levels, initiated in 2023, with the provincial governments and representatives of these and other bodies and of MSMEs, which led to several versions until their recent approval by the country’s leadership.

According to the president of the institute, they are a response to distortions or gaps, largely caused by the lack of control, they mark the organisation of non-state activity, as well as underlining that all types of economic actors are maintained.

In other words, she said, it is a question of these figures acting within a legal framework, contributing to the treasury and to the wellbeing not only of themselves but also of society as a whole.

In his closing speech at the last ordinary session of the ANPP in July, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Party’s Central Committee and President of the Republic, pointed out that law and order must prevail if all forms of economic management are to triumph and be strengthened.