Mega-DNU: the regulatory chainsaw

A cross-cutting deregulatory decree of necessity and urgency: it declares a public emergency in economic, financial, fiscal, administrative, pension, tariff, health and social matters until Dec 31, 2025 (art. 1) and repeals or amends numerous laws that protected incumbents — among them it repeals the Rental Law 27.551, the Shelf Law 27.545, the Supply Law 20.680 and the Commercial Promotion Law 18.425, and amends the private-health-insurance regime (Law 26.682), the customs/foreign-trade framework and the labor Title IV (which reforms —does not repeal wholesale— the Employment Contract Law 20.744 and related laws such as 14.250 and 24.013). VALIDITY CAVEAT: the labor Title IV has been judicially SUSPENDED nationwide since January 2024 by an injunction of the National Labor Chamber (at the CGT's request); as of June 2026 the case is still pending before the Supreme Court. The rest of the DNU is in force. verif · Dec 20, 2023 ↗

Signed on Dec 20, 2023; published in the Official Gazette on Dec 21, 2023 (extraordinary edition). The entry-into-force date is NOT confirmed by direct reading of the primary source: no explicit validity clause was read in the InfoLEG text (which is truncated), and the Official Gazette publication date of Dec 21, 2023 rests on the notice's URL/date, not on the body of the rule. The 8-calendar-day validity (≈Dec 29, 2023) is an inference from the general rule of the Civil and Commercial Code + convergent sources, not data read in the primary source. verif · Dec 21, 2023 ↗

National and cross-cutting scope: domestic commerce and retailers (end of Shelves and Supply), tenants and owners (end of the Rental Law), members and companies of private health insurance, the commercial-aviation sector, importers/exporters, state-owned companies and — in the now-suspended Title IV — workers and employers nationwide. It lowers the regulatory-compliance cost and opens previously protected markets to the whole satellite ecosystem. verif · Dec 20, 2023 ↗