Overview
- Interim congressional president Fernando Rospigliosi Capurro signed a modification to Law 30198 that recognizes emoliente sellers as microentrepreneurs and promoters of healthy nutrition.
- The law classifies the preparation and sale of beverages made with medicinal plants in public spaces as a microenterprise activity.
- It aims to stop municipal governments from restricting or pursuing these vendors to let them continue their work in public areas.
- The measure allows emoliente sellers to offer complementary items, such as sandwiches, as part of the same small business.
- Congress approved the measure by insistence after an Executive Branch objection in 2025, and local enforcement now needs to align with the vendors’ new legal status.