ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE PORTS

The Ecuadorian port system is conformed by three levels: regulator, control and execution.

Outline 1. National Council of the Merchant Marina and Ports
Entity regulator
Composition

Minister National Defense - President
Minister or viceminister of foreign affairs
Public works
Finance
Foreign Commerce, industries and fishes.
General Major of Navy
Director of the office of planning of the presidency of the republic
Commander in chief of the first navy area
Director of maritime affairs of the Navy.
Director of the merchant marine and coastal zone, with voice but without vote.

General attributions:

To plan, to direct, to guide and to control the port politics.

Specific attributions:

To approve the regulations of rates
To decide on establishment of new ports.
To authorize the commercial use of ports or facilities.
To approve the annual program of activities.
Studies on it influences of the ports in the transports.
To approve the plan of investments and the budgets.
To rule on the port activities.
To determine the port jurisdictions.
To present to the president of the republic in ternas the proposal for president of the port authorities.
To rule to petition has more than enough normative conflicts.
To rule on regulation as for interpretation.
To limit to the performance of the port entities.
To approve maximum prices.

Outline 2. National Council of the Merchant Marina and Ports
Entity Control

Specific Attributions.

To inform on new ports and commercial uses.
To investigate execution principles of loyal competition.
To promote training in coordination with the port entities.
To acquit the disputes between the port entities and the port community.
To look after the execution of the national port politic's limits.
To approve the regulations of the Port Service
To study and to recommend administration improvements.
To inspect to the port entities (ee.pp.)
To approve the organisms of personal of the ee.pp.
To supervise the annual program of activities.
To investigate the use of the ports.
To promote the training of the personnel of the ee.pp.
To solve reclamations definitively.
To know statistical and balances of the ee.pp.
To advise the CNMMP.
To grant registrations to the port operators.
To look after the principle of authority with unit approaches.
To grant registration for the marine personnel in the ee.pp.
To coordinate the ee.pp.

Outline 3. Authorities Port
Entities Executioners

Composition

President (designated by the president of the republic)
Captain of the port.
Designated vowels for the ministers of:
Finance
Foreign Commerce, industries and fishes.
Public Works.
Two vocal representatives of the users
Secretary, with voice but without vote, the manager of the a.p.
General attributions:
To establish régime of port services.
To present to the formless DIGMER of activities.
To elaborate a short list of three candidates for appointment manager.
To designate bosses of department.
To approve balances and other financial statements.
To approve regulations.
To authorize contracts, investments and studies.
To grant permits or concessions.
To establish régime of the port services.
To settle down in direct form the tariffs levels.
To apply régime of control of contracts.
To collect the canons and considerations.

The effective legal mark conformed by the Law of Modernization of the State and their regulations, the General Law of Ports, The Law of National Port Administrative Regime, the Regulation of Port Services and the General Regulation of the Port activity in the Ecuador; determines that the structure of the port ecuadorian system is conformed by a regulator entity that is The Merchant National Navy Council and Ports, a entity of control that is the National Port Authority and in exercises The merchant General Navy Direction and ports and the administrative organs of execution that constitute the port entities.

In base and execution of the Law of Modernization, a deep port transformation begins, being applied the new norm to the old structures, that that, like we will see, it has been very effective, but leaves resolution we have already indicated, the problem of the new wine in the old wineskins"