Diario Oficial de la Federación

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The Diario Oficial de la Federación (or DOF, Official Journal of the Federation), published daily by the government of Mexico, is the main official government publisher in Mexico.

The contents of current issues express legally the political, economic and social institutions in Mexico, and in older issues is read the history of the same (it's the oldest official journal in the American Continent).

The Diario Oficial is similar to other main governmental journals (as the United States Federal Register or the Canada Gazette), but they differ from each other because they respond primarily to their type of government and secondly to their legal system.

In the Diario Oficial, the main rules and regulations of the three federal powers are published. This journal is the head of the set of the governmental journals in Mexico (every state and the Federal District has an official gazette for its jurisdiction, and also some municipalities).

The importance of reading the Diario Oficial de la Federación on a daily basis responds to the mandate that all official government rules and regulations must be published in it, and so only through this publication their compliance can become mandatory. Once a law or regulation is published, ignorance of it is no longer a legal defence.

The Diario Oficial contains treaties, laws, decrees, sentences, agreements, resolutions, general and judicial warnings, national and international public bids to provide the government with goods and services, among other issues.

This journal is regulated by the Law of the Official Journal of the Federation and Government Gazettes (DOF, December 24, 1986), and it is compiled by the Secretariat of the Interior.