Topics

Update to the General Guidelines for the Oversight of Mining Titles

Delimitation of the Special Mining District for Productive Diversification in La Guajira

Delimitation of the Special Mining District for Productive Diversification of the Cesar Life Corridor

Adoption of the public policy on human rights in the mining and energy sector

Guidelines for the Formulation, Adoption, and Implementation of the National Geoscientific Knowledge Plan

Draft Resolution on the Adoption of the Sectoral Framework for a Just Energy Transition

Draft Repeal of Resolutions That Delimited the Special Mining Districts for Productive Diversification

Draft bill to repeal decrees prohibiting coal exports to Israel

Bill to repeal resolutions that established Protection Areas for Food Production in Cundinamarca

Draft National Policy on Strategic and Critical Minerals 2026–2032

Bills

I. RESOLUTIONS – MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY (“MME”)

Subject	Update to the General Guidelines for the Oversight of Mining Titles
Number	40350
Date	July 29, 2026
Description	The MME updates the general guidelines for conducting oversight of mining titles and other legal arrangements that, by law, permit mining exploration and exploitation, establishing operational, strategic, and administrative guidelines for the mining authority to carry out this function. Furthermore, the resolution elaborates on the concept of “differential oversight,” applicable to small-scale miners, beneficiaries of area reallocation for formalization, and recipients of mining formalization subcontracts, and establishes a maximum period of forty-five (45) calendar days for the issuance and notification of administrative decisions resulting from oversight visits.

Topic	Delimitation of the Special Mining District for Productive Diversification in La Guajira
Number	40406
Date	August 12, 2026
Description	The MME established the Special Mining District for Productive Diversification in La Guajira, which includes the municipalities of Albania, Barrancas, and Hatonuevo, without prejudice to the possibility that this designation may be extended to other neighboring municipalities.

Subject	Delimitation of the Special Mining District of the Cesar Life Corridor
Number	40407
Date	August 12, 2026
Description	The MME established the Special Mining District for Productive Diversification known as the “Special District of the Cesar Life Corridor,” which comprises the municipalities of Agustín Codazzi, Becerril, Chiriguaná, El Paso, and La Jagua de Ibirico in the department of Cesar, without prejudice to the possibility that this designation may be extended to other neighboring municipalities.

Subject	Adoption of the Public Policy on Human Rights in the Mining and Energy Sector
Number	40408
Date	August 5, 2026
Description	The MME adopted the Public Policy on Human Rights in the Mining and Energy Sector, applicable to both the MME and its affiliated entities, with the aim of progressively incorporating a human rights-based approach into its policies, plans, programs, projects, and management tools. According to the technical document, one of its objectives is to strengthen strategies aimed at the adoption of due diligence practices and responsible business conduct by actors in the mining and energy sector, among others.

Topic	Guidelines for the Formulation, Adoption, and Implementation of the National Geoscientific Knowledge Plan
Number	40405
Date	August 5, 2026
Description	The MME establishes guidelines for the formulation, adoption, and implementation of the 2026–2036 National Geoscientific Knowledge Plan, with the aim of guiding the generation, integration, administration, and use of the country’s geoscientific information for land and subsoil planning and use, water management, monitoring of geological hazards, and research on strategic minerals, among other purposes. The resolution assigns the Colombian Geological Service the task of coordinating the collection, analysis, and dissemination of geoscientific information and establishes a framework for coordination among the MME, the Colombian Geological Service, and the National Mining Agency.

II. DRAFT RESOLUTIONS – MME

Topic

Adoption of the Sectoral Framework for a Just Energy Transition (“TEJ”)

Description

The draft resolution would adopt the TEJ Sectoral Framework as an instrument for public policy guidance, coordination, and technical monitoring, and would create the TEJ Technical Committee as a coordinating body, in which the National Mining Agency and the Colombian Geological Service would participate.  In the mining sector, the draft includes measures for the transition of the coal subsector, including the consolidation of Mining Districts for Productive Diversification, the allocation of funds associated with unconventional energy projects to promote economic diversification in coal-producing regions, and job retraining programs for workers in the sector. It also aims to establish actions to promote strategic minerals, formalize mining operations, and develop production chains geared toward reindustrialization and the energy transition.

Subject

Repeal of resolutions that defined the Special Mining Districts for Productive Diversification

Description

The draft resolution would repeal fifteen (15) resolutions issued between 2024 and 2026, which established various Special Mining Districts in Antioquia, Nariño, Chocó, Huila, Valle del Cauca, Boyacá, Córdoba, La Guajira, the Pacific coast, Cauca, Cesar, and Norte de Santander.  According to the explanatory memorandum accompanying the draft resolution, the repeal is justified by the fact that the Special Mining Districts for Productive Diversification did not produce verifiable results, the Strategic Management Plans intended for their implementation were not formulated, and the mechanism, in its current form, is not the most suitable means of achieving the objectives set forth in Article 231 of Law 2294 of 2023.

III. DRAFT DECREE – MINISTRY OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, AND TOURISM

Subject

Repeal of decrees prohibiting the export of coal to Israel

Description

The draft decree would repeal Decrees No. 1047 of 2024 and No. 0949 of 2025, which prohibited coal exports to Israel, and would reestablish the general regime applicable to exports of thermal coal, eliminating restrictions related to the destination country. This is without prejudice to compliance with applicable customs, foreign exchange, tax, environmental, origin, and control obligations, as well as prohibitions and restrictions arising from binding resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and international control regimes to which the Republic of Colombia is bound.

IV. DRAFT RESOLUTIONS – MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Subject

Repeal of resolutions that designated the Food Production Protection Areas (“APPA”) in Cundinamarca

Description

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development published a draft resolution that would expressly repeal the resolutions establishing the APPA in the municipalities of Sopó, Nemocón, Cogua, Tenjo, and Tabio, in Cundinamarca. According to the published document, the draft resolution is based on a technical review that concluded that these areas lack sufficient technical justification to maintain their status as determinants of land-use planning.

Topic

Repeal of resolutions that established and amended the APPA in the southern region of the department of La Guajira.

Description

The draft resolution would expressly repeal Resolution 161 of 2024 and Resolution 289 of 2025, which designated and modified the APPA in the municipalities of Barrancas, Distracción, El Molino, Fonseca, Hatonuevo, La Jagua del Pilar, San Juan del Cesar, Urumita, and Villanueva, in the department of La Guajira, including the supporting technical documents, cartographic annexes, matrices, and other instruments that form an integral part of each of them.  According to the published document, the proposal is based on a technical review that concluded that these areas lack sufficient technical justification to maintain their status as determinants of land-use planning.

V. PUBLIC POLICY DRAFT – NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICY

Topic

National Policy on Strategic and Critical Minerals 2026–2032

Description

The draft CONPES document aims to adopt the National Policy on Strategic and Critical Minerals 2026–2032, which is designed to regulate the Colombian mining sector and promote the sustainable and sovereign use of these minerals. To this end, it proposes actions focused on geoscientific knowledge, land-use planning and governance, the generation of added value and production value chains, formalization and human development in mining activities, as well as traceability and security in the value chain.

VI. BILLS AND LEGISLATIVE ACTS

No.	Subject	Status
86/2025Senate	Whereby provisions ordering the destruction of heavy machinery seized in connection with illicit activities are repealed, and measures are enacted for its use in the mechanization of the Colombian countryside, along with other provisions.	Pending second debate.
80/2026Senate	Enacting the “Mining Law for a Just Energy Transition, National Reindustrialization, and Mining for Life” and establishing other provisions.	Filed.
148/2026Senate	Whereby the distribution of the surface royalty for subsoil use and the production share in hydrocarbon contracts is amended to provide for the direct transfer of their benefits to the producing local governments.	Pending first debate.
75/2026Chamber of Commerce	A bill to protect territorial autonomy and legal certainty in the use of rural land, repeal Article 32 of Law 2294 of 2023, amend Article 10 of Law 388 of 1997, and enact other provisions.	Pending first debate.
194/2026Senate	Measures are established to promote and guarantee the employment of local labor in large-scale projects or those with significant territorial impact, and other provisions are enacted.	Filed.