Constitución en Inglés

256 constituteproject.org Colombia 2021 Chapter IV Distribution of Resources and Jurisdictions E xcept for what the Constitution provides, the law shall determine, at the initiative of the Government, the services that are the responsibility of the Nation and the departments, districts, and municipalities. In order to attend to the services for which they are responsible and to furnish the resources for their adequate provision, the General System of National Budget Distribution of Departments, Districts, and Municipalities is hereby established. Districts shall have the same competences as municipalities and departments for the purposes allocation of the General System of National Budget Distribution that the law establishes. For these purposes, once constituted, the indigenous territorial entities shall bebeneficiaries. Likewise, a law shall designate the indigenous reservations as beneficiaries, provided that they have not constituted themselves as indigenous territorial entities. The resources of the General System of National Budget Distribution of Departments, Districts, and Municipalities shall be directed to financing the services for which they are responsible, according priority to the health service, the services of preschool, primary, secondary, and intermediate education, and public services providing household drinking water and basic ARTICLE 356