RIGI: what you must file afterwards

What changed

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 goods and works, not on the total investment, and services fall outside that base. (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 ↗

In force

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 Decree 105/2026, which extended the accession window to 8 July 2027. verif · Aug 23, 2024 ↗

Who it affects

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 ↗

The norm

Decreto 749/2024 of the national Executive, Annex I, implementing the Régimen de Incentivo para Grandes Inversiones (RIGI, the large-investment incentive regime; Ley 27.742, Title VII). Articles cited: 23 (minimum billing and the supplier's annual sworn statement), 47 inciso l) (local supplier development plan), 50 (biennial certification) and 51 (market price and availability of local supply). verif · Aug 23, 2024 ↗

Our reading

Public discussion of the RIGI stops at approval, and that is exactly where the obligations you have to prove on paper begin. Three things the text says and the press summary does not: the 20% of local procurement is calculated on goods and works, not on total investment, and it leaves services out of that base; certification is not a one-off, it repeats every two years counted from each project's accession date, so every project has its own calendar; and Article 51 sets the yardstick for judging whether local supply existed, which is the question that decides whether an exclusion was justified. For a local supplier that orders the priorities: whoever supplies goods and works comes in through the national 20% door, and whoever supplies services comes in through the provincial local-content regimes, which have a different calculation base and different percentages. They are two separate regimes and the project holder reports on both. thesis

Where it lands, province by province3

Catamarca It concentrates three of the country's earliest accession dates (El Quemado, Fenix and Hombre Muerto Oeste), making it one of the first provinces where biennial certification stops being theory. The Re.P.E.M. register is what defines which local supplier counts. favorable stability → long-term investment thesis

San Juan Los Azules (accession 25 Sep 2025) and Veladero phases 8 and 9 have to prove they meet the national 20% on goods and works and, in parallel, the 60% procurement requirement of provincial Law 2827-M, which only counts suppliers listed in RE.PRO.MIN and demands substantiated technical justification to exclude a category. They are two different calculation bases on the same project. favorable stability → long-term investment thesis

Río Negro The provincial regime is the most demanding measured so far (80% of workers and suppliers locally based, save for duly substantiated cause), and it coexists with the national 20% on goods and works. For a Rio Negro supplier the provincial door is wider than the national one. favorable stability → long-term investment thesis

RIGI: what paperwork you have to file afterwards

What changed and who it applies to

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Where it lands, province by province3

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