During this past month, Ecuador’s ratification of the ICSID Convention and its direct influence on the attraction of foreign investment has been the subject of many comments.

The Organic Administrative Code (“COA”) provides that, against the decisions issued by the public administration, there are two kinds of appeals: ordinary appeal and extraordinary appeal for review. The first seeks to have the authority re-analyze the merits of the case with a view on modifying its decision.

The concept of guarantee of rights has undergone fundamental transformations in the last century, which have contributed to the development of the protection and safeguarding of rights in the Constitutions. To all this, the abandonment of “the romantic pretension, derived from the French Revolution, whereby it was sufficient to enshrine human rights in the political constitution, for them to be respected by authorities and citizens” also contributed to this regard (Jimenez, 2000, pg.549).

The term Joint Venture appeared in the United States of America and has been widely accepted worldwide. It is a concept with a very broad meaning, which, in essence refers to agreements executed between individuals or companies in order to undertake a joint project, in which the rules that will be applied to its operation are determined.

The National Assembly gave way to the partial objection issued by the Executive Branch, thus approving the "Organic Law that Reforms Various Legal Bodies to Reinforce the Prevention and Combat of Illicit Commerce to Strengthen the National Industry and Promote Electronic Commerce.” In addition, the law foresees reforms in the matter of intellectual property.

The small amount is a public procurement procedure regulated in the Organic Law of the National Public Procurement System (hereinafter, the "LOSNCP"), the Regulation to the LOSCNP (hereinafter, the "Regulation"), and the Codification and Updating of Resolutions issued by the National Public Procurement Service (hereinafter, the "Codification").

In 2015 the fixed-term employment agreement, which allowed the hiring of employees for one-or two-years, was repealed from the Labor Code. As a result, the open-term agreement became the most widespread agreement for employment relationships covered by the Labor Code.

In 2015 the fixed-term employment agreement, which allowed the hiring of employees for one-or two-years, was repealed from the Labor Code. As a result, the open-term agreement became the most widespread agreement for employment relationships covered by the Labor Code.

Competition among companies and the business opportunities, ventures, technologies and constant expansion into new international markets mean that companies must protect that which allows them to stand out and differentiate themselves from their competitors, meaning their information, their "singularities".