RIGI: what paperwork you have to file afterwards

The RIGI Regulation does not end at approval: it leaves the project holder with three obligations you have to keep proving with paperwork. (1) Article 47, subsection l) of Annex I requires filing, when applying to join the regime, a Local supplier development plan committing a minimum of 20% of the total investment in GOODS AND WORKS to local suppliers; the 20% is calculated on the investment amount earmarked for paying suppliers of goods and works —not on the total investment, nor on the amount earmarked for suppliers as such—, and services fall outside that base. The commitment is conditional: it applies «siempre y cuando la oferta de Proveedores locales se encuentre disponible y en condiciones de mercado en cuanto al precio y calidad» (only where the local supply is available and on market terms as to price and quality), and article 51 sets that bar —the local supplier's ex-works price may not exceed the CIF value of the imported good plus its import duty and its anti-dumping duty—. Article 49 says which contracts count towards that 20%: those with local suppliers of goods and/or works tied to the project «que se encuentren o no inscriptos en el RIGI» (whether or not they are registered with the RIGI), and it leaves out anything supplied by companies related to the holder, unless they are the only ones able to meet that demand. (2) Article 50 requires certifying compliance with that plan in biennial periods counted from the project's accession date, in the form and under the conditions set by the Enforcement Authority. (3) Article 23 requires the SUPPLIER registered under the regime to invoice holders of RIGI projects a minimum percentage of its total annual billing, and to file, before 31 March each year, a sworn statement accompanied by a certification from a licensed public accountant. verif · Aug 23, 2024 ↗

Published in the Official Gazette on 23 August 2024. In force today: the text consulted on 19 August 2026 on the official argentina.gob.ar/normativa surface is the updated text, and it incorporates the amendments introduced by Decreto 105/2026, which extended the accession window to 8 July 2027. verif · Aug 23, 2024 ↗

Holders of approved RIGI projects, who are the ones that must certify compliance with their supplier plan every two years from their accession date, and companies registered as suppliers to the regime, which file an annual sworn statement before 31 March with a licensed accountant's certification. It reaches indirectly every local supplier of goods and works: the committed 20% is the door through which the regime brings them in. verif · Aug 23, 2024 ↗