Overview
- Decree 571/2025, signed by President Javier Milei and Economy Minister Luis Caputo, suppresses the Dirección Nacional of INTA and transfers all its functions to the institute’s president.
- The move deepens the July overhaul under Decree 462/2025, which reclassified INTA from a decentralized agency to a deconcentrated body under the Agriculture Secretariat.
- Despite the Chamber of Deputies’ August 7 vote rejecting five delegated decrees, including DNU 462/2025, the executive pressed ahead with internal reorganization.
- Official considerandos cite an internal report by INTA President Nicolás Bronzovich that identified overlapping duties and argued that operational reasons for the directorate’s existence no longer apply.
- Political and legal battles loom as unions pursue judicial remedies and the Senate has not yet reviewed the decree, with courts already issuing injunctions in related agency restructurings.