Decree 38-2026

The Executive Branch is authorized, through the Board of Directors of the Institute of Property (IP), to: Subscribe, through direct contracting, contracts for the provision of vehicle license plates of all types, as well as the acquisition and implementation of vehicle readers, license plate reading arches for highways, communities, customs and border points and other works, goods, services, technological infrastructure and information technology platforms, including servers, communication links, licenses and computer systems necessary to eliminate the existing backlog in the supply of vehicle license plates generated during the last three (3) years and to guarantee continuous and uninterrupted supply of vehicle license plates in the coming years. The contracted companies or suppliers must be direct manufacturers of the required systems and elements, not permitting the participation of intermediaries or local representatives, except when it is regional representations for multiple countries. Likewise, they must guarantee the maintenance of the technological and security standards currently in force in the National License Plate System, ensuring compatibility with more than two million (2,000,000) vehicle license plates currently in circulation, as well as functional and technological interoperability with the platforms of the Institute of Property (IP), its Associated Centers and Peripheral Registry Offices, the Municipalities, the Customs Administration of Honduras, the Tax Administration Service (SAR) and the Ministry of State in the Office of Security (SEDS). The contracting carried out under this Decree must be subject to internal and external audit mechanisms throughout the entire contracting and execution process.

Authorize the Ministry of State in the Office of Finance (SEFIN) to make the budgetary adjustments and modifications necessary in favor of the Institute of Property (IP) and other State institutions linked to compliance with this Decree, in order to guarantee the implementation of the measures established herein. For such purposes, the Ministry of State in the Office of Finance (SEFIN) is empowered to identify and manage sources of internal or external financing, as well as to make budgetary modifications between institutions of the Executive Branch, in accordance with current budgetary regulations, for the purpose of incorporating into the General Budget of Income and Expenditures of the Republic the necessary allocations for the execution of this Decree.

It is ordered that the Ministry of State in the Office of Finance (SEFIN) and the Customs Administration of Honduras, within the scope of their respective competencies, carry out the necessary administrative proceedings to make effective the exemption from applicable taxes, fees, tariffs and other customs duties, including the fee for electronic data transmission with the Customs Administration of Honduras, as well as the costs associated with the mandatory use of a customs agent, in the purchases, acquisitions and imports of goods, equipment, technologies, systems and services that the Institute of Property (IP) carries out for the implementation and execution of the measures established in this Decree. The competent institutions must exercise the necessary control mechanisms to ensure that the goods acquired under this exemption are used exclusively for the purposes established in this Decree.

This Decree shall enter into force upon its publication in the Official Gazette "La Gaceta". Done in the City of Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District, in the Session Hall of the National Congress, on the nineteenth day of the month of March of two thousand twenty-six. JOSÉ TOMÁS ZAMBRANO MOLINA PRESIDENT CARLOS ROBERTO LEDEZMA CASCO SECRETARY ARIANA MELISSA BANEGAS CARCAMO SECRETARY To the Executive Branch Therefore: Execute. Tegucigalpa, M.D.C., March 20, 2026 NASRY JUAN ASFURA ZABLAH PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY