In force since Jul 16, 2026
San Juan: 80/60 local mining procurement
Ley Provincial 2827-M (San Juan, Official Gazette 16-Jul-2026)
in forcePROVINCIAL
RIGI and investment
Ley 2827-M requires San Juan miners to file, as a sworn statement, a local hiring plan targeting 80% and a supplier plan targeting 60%.
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What changed and who it applies to
What changed
Ley 2827-M requires mining companies to file two plans as sworn statements: a 'Local Employment Development Plan' targeting 80% local workers —measured on the average annual payroll and counting both the miner's own employees and the indirect staff of its contractors (art. 5)— and a 'Local Supplier Development Plan' targeting 60% of the total annual amount of purchases and contracts tied to the project, measured across the miner's direct purchases and its indirect ones through contractors (art. 9). The supplier plan is updated every two years. It creates the RE.PRO.MIN, San Juan's Mining Suppliers Registry, under the Ministry of Mining: a single, official, public and freely searchable registry (art. 11). What makes the registry mandatory: for the 60% count, 'only contracts with suppliers registered and holding a valid certificate in RE.PRO.MIN shall be computable' (art. 9). The quota is not a hard floor: contracts for which no local offer is available on reasonable terms of quality, technical capacity, quantity, timing or market price may be excluded from the calculation base, with a reasoned technical justification (art. 9). In addition, the miner may commit in its plan to progressive targets below 60%, with a detailed justification by category that is reviewed at each biennial update (article 10, subsection 4). verif Jul 16, 2026 ↗
In force
In force since 07/16/2026: article 30 provides that 'this law enters into force upon its publication', and publication is dated Jul 16, 2026. The compliance windows run from that date (article 29): 60 calendar days for miners and contractors that ALREADY had an employment or supplier plan filed under an approved DIA (Environmental Impact Statement) to adapt it to articles 5 to 10; 90 calendar days for those operating without a plan; 90 days from obtaining the respective DIA for new projects or for those changing stage or phase; and 90 days to report voluntary community development projects under way. The Enforcement Authority may grant reasoned extensions verif. In mid-September 2026 the implementing regulation had not yet been issued: the Minister of Mining placed it in final legal review prob. verif Jul 16, 2026 ↗
Who it applies to
Mining companies operating in San Juan, of any mineral and at any stage (prospecting, exploration, construction, exploitation, closure and post-closure; art. 249 of the Mining Code), their contractors and supplier SMEs. Requirements for a supplier to register and stay in the RE.PRO.MIN, which must be met SIMULTANEOUSLY (art. 12, seven subsections):(1) an operating establishment licensed in its own name, with a real domicile in the community of influence or in the rest of the province;(2) legal and tax domicile in that same jurisdiction;(3) at least ONE of two local-roots criteria: (a) ≥51% of the share capital —or of the votes that form the corporate will— held by persons with local legal and tax domicile, evidencing local ultimate beneficial owners where the partners are legal entities (sole-proprietor firms are exempt from this subsection), or (b) for industrial goods production or service provision, that the main establishment be its exclusive property and located in the province;(4) employing at least 80% local workers on the average annual payroll of contracts tied to San Juan mining projects;(5) keeping registered in San Juan, and paying the Vehicle Registration Tax there, all vehicles it assigns to work on a mining project in the province, owned or rented, except those under leasing;(6) filing its own local supplier development plan, with the adjustments and exceptions set by the implementing regulation;(7) for suppliers from the community of influence, if the municipality adhered to the law, being up to date on municipal service fees. The last paragraph of article 12 allows the enforcement authority, at the applicant's request, to reduce or waive the requirements of subsections 2 and 3 when productive reasons justify it, if the supplier has its own operating establishment in the province and 24 months of invoicing there verif. Seniority, in two tiers: 24 months to qualify as a local supplier of the community of influence, 12 months for the rest of the province. Construction firms must also be listed in the Provincial Registry of Builders with no less than 24 months of seniority (art. 13). Local worker (arts. 7 and 8): real domicile recorded in the national ID and evidenced effective residence, with a minimum of 24 months of continuous residence immediately prior to hiring for the worker from the community of influence and 12 months for the provincial one. A five-tier ORDER OF PREFERENCE, the same for employment and for purchases (arts. 6 and 10): 1) department of direct influence, 2) indirect influence as recognized in the DIA, 3) rest of the province, 4) rest of Argentina, 5) abroad. Penalties (art. 20): warning, formal notice, a fine of up to 200,000 tax units, suspension of certificate issuance, suspension of the registration from 30 days to 1 year, temporary disqualification and cancellation of the registration; the fine is reduced by 50% if the offender files the missing documentation within 10 days of notification. Incentive for the miner (art. 25): a company that simultaneously meets and sustains over an annual period 80% employment and 60% purchases, provided that within those percentages at least 30% of workers and 20% of suppliers come from the Community of Influence, obtains a tax credit certificate against provincial taxes, transferable in whole or in part and on a one-off basis to suppliers registered in RE.PRO.MIN. It requires legal and tax domicile in San Juan, or a commitment to establish it within 12 months, on pain of forfeiture and repayment with interest. verif Jul 16, 2026 ↗
The norm
San Juan's Local Mining Development Law, passed by the San Juan Chamber of Deputies in its Sixth Ordinary Session of 07/02/2026 with 33 votes in favor and 2 against verif, entered as Ley Provincial 2827-M in the Provincial Legal Digest (entry LP-2827-M, mining subject area) verif, and published on 07/16/2026 verif. It has 32 articles. Its article 31 repeals Ley 1208-M, the previous local procurement law verif. The bill was promoted by the provincial Executive Branch (Governor Marcelo Orrego) prob. verif Jul 16, 2026 ↗
Our reading
It is now standing law and it has a number: Ley 2827-M, in force since Jul 16, 2026. San Juan replicates the Salta moat over 24.9% of the RIGI portfolio we measure and vet —USD 22,828 M out of USD 91,576 M across 28 projects— estim, and the piece that decides the business is not the quota but the registry thesis: for the 60% count, *only* suppliers registered and holding a valid certificate in the RE.PRO.MIN are computable verif. Provincial homologation stops being a competitive edge and becomes the condition of existence before the copper mega-miners (El Pachón, Los Azules, Vicuña) thesis. The law leaves the miner two exits, both on technical grounds: removing from the calculation base the purchases for which there is no local offer on reasonable terms of quality, technical capacity, quantity, timing or market price (article 9), and committing in its plan to progressive targets below 60%, with a detailed justification by category that is reviewed at each biennial update (article 10, subsection 4) verif. And the real barrier to entry for the San Juan SME is not the 51% of capital but seniority thesis: to count as a supplier of the community of influence one must evidence 24 months of establishment, domicile and roots in that department, 12 months for the rest of the province, and construction firms, 24 months in the Provincial Registry of Builders verif. Whoever was not there does not make it in time for this wave thesis. It remains a governor's policy, not part of the national program — provincial protectionism in tension with Milei's opening. What has to be watched is no longer enactment but the implementing regulation and the effective opening of the RE.PRO.MIN thesis: this law repeals Ley 1208-M (article 31), which had an implementing decree in 2014 and whose registry, according to the press, never came to operate prob; and the deadlines of article 29 fell due on Sep 14 and Oct 14, 2026 verif. According to the press, the registry system will be built by a private company chosen through a tender and the province expects to receive it in December 2026: the second deadline passed with no record of an open registry, and receiving the system is not yet the same as opening enrolment. thesis
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San Juan It is the entry key to the spending of the three copper mega-miners thesis. For a purchase to count towards the 60% target, the supplier must be registered and hold a valid certificate in the Mining Suppliers Registry (article 9) verif: provincial homologation stops being a competitive edge and becomes a condition of existence before El Pachón, Los Azules and Vicuña thesis. The requirement that weighs most on the San Juan SME is seniority: 24 months of establishment and domicile in the department of influence, or 12 in the rest of the province, and 24 months in the builders' registry for construction firms (articles 12 and 13) verif; whoever was not there does not make it in time for this wave thesis. The target has two exits for the miner, both on technical grounds: removing from the base the purchases with no local offer on reasonable terms of quality, capacity, quantity, timing or market price (article 9), and setting progressive targets below 60% justified category by category (article 10) verif. favorable thesis
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