Constitución en Inglés

257 Corte Constitucional de Colombia sanitation, ensuring the provision of services and the extension of coverage with an emphasis on the poor. Considering the principles of solidarity, complementarity, and subsidiarity, a law shall establish the cases in which the Nation may contribute to the financing of spending on those services that are specified by law as competences of departments, districts, and municipalities. The law shall regulate the criteria of distribution of the General System of National Budget Distribution of Departments, Districts, and Municipalities, in accordance with the competences that it assigns to each of these entities; it shall contain the provisions necessary for the implementation of the General System of Shares, incorporating principles of distribution that consider the following criteria: a. In the sectors of education, health, drinking water, and basic sanitation: the population that has been taken care of and the population that has yet to be taken care of, the distribution of urban and rural populations, administrative and fiscal efficiency, and equity. In the distribution per territorial unit of each of the components of the General System of National Budget Distribution, priority shall be given to factors that favor the poor, in the terms established by law; b. In other sectors: population, the distribution of the urban and rural population, administrative and fiscal efficiency, and relative poverty. Competences may not be decentralized without a previous allocation of sufficient fiscal resources for their discharge.