Joint Commission of the AN will reinforce the sanctioning regime of the Law for the Protection of Livestock Activity

Published at: 12/06/2026 11:13 AM

The standing committees on Domestic Policy and on Economy, Finance and National Development, constituted as a Joint Commission, will reinforce the sanctioning regime of the Bill for the Reform of the Law for the Protection of Livestock Activity.

This was instructed this Thursday by the President of the Legislative Branch, Deputy Jorge Rodríguez, during the first discussion of the bill, after recognizing that the current law dates back to 1997.

He stressed that the current law contemplates pyrrhic sanctions that do not act as real deterrents against crimes affecting the livestock sector. “One of the problems, one of the flaws that the current law has, is precisely that it is a pre-constitutional law, it is a law of 97, and the sanctions provided for in that law are pyrrhic sanctions,” Rodríguez said.

In this regard, he instructed the work of the Joint Commission, together with authorities of the Public Prosecutor's Office, to prepare a report that will define the sanctioning regime of the new law that will regulate the sector.

The parliamentarian questioned the current regulation, which allows up to 90 days to certify the origin or ownership of cattle, on suspicion of theft found on a farm or herd.

“In 90 days, those cattle would no longer be in Colombia, they would be arriving in Ecuador,” warned the President of the Parliament, illustratively, to reflect the urgency of having much more streamlined and severe criminal and administrative procedures.

According to a press release from the AN, the joint commission will immediately assume the task of consulting and preparing the final report for the second discussion, ensuring that the new legal framework has a robust, modern criminal system adapted to the constitutional and productive reality of the Nation.

Mazo News Team