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from https://www.auditoria.gov.co/noticias-2017/-/asset_publisher/xdyJ6rcwADxK/content/id/209383
AGR was established by Ley 106 del 30 de Diciembre de 1993 (English:
Law No. 106 of December 30, 1993)
Source: https://www.funcionpublica.gov.co/eva/gestornormativo/norma.php?i=3425
The flag is a white horizontal background with the new log inside a circle.
Esteban Rivera, 8 August 2023
image by Zoltan Horvath, 11 November 2012
The AGR (Auditoría General de la República, General Auditorship of the
Republic) oversees the fiscal supervision of the Contraloría
General de República and its dependencies at Department, District and
Municipal level, as mentioned in Article 274 of the Political Constitution of
1991 (the AGR was established in 1992)
Sources:
http://www.auditoria.gov.co/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=183:que-es-la-agr&catid=146:que-es-la-agr&Itemid=133
and
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditor%C3%ADa_General_de_la_Rep%C3%BAblica
The AGR flag is the
logo on a white horizontal background.
Source:
http://www.serjudicial.com/enlaces.htm
Flag of the AGR is seen
here.
Source:
http://www.eltiempo.com/economia/negocios/ARTICULO-WEB-NEW_NOTA_INTERIOR-8970925.html
For additional information go to:
Auditoría General de la República (official website)
Esteban Rivera, 18 June 2012
On December 2, 2013 I saw this flag on
RCN news channel where they interview the current Attorney General. The
flag is on the right, a white horizontal
background with a yellow/blue logo in the middle. I can't identify this flag and
my best guess is that it may be the flag of the General Auditorship of the
Republic, but when one looks closer to the logo, there are some differences which
does not allow to conclude that the spotted flag is the same as de General Auditorship of the Republic.
Esteban Rivera, 21 December 2013
from https://www.linkedin.com/company/auditor%C3%ADa-general-de-la-republica/?originalSubdomain=co
image by Eugene Ipavec, 1 September 2008
image by Eugene Ipavec, 2 September 2008
There are currently a total of 57 Chambers of Commerce in Colombia, gathered
in an organization called CONFECAMARAS (Confederación Colombiana de Cámaras de
Comercio, Colombian Confederation of Chambers of Commerce). Their official
website is at www.confecamaras.org.co.
Each Chamber of Commerce has its own official flag (following to
the pattern of the Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá flag above) and
its standard is individual according to the regulation by each
Chamber of Commerce. For example - The standard of the Bogotá
Chamber of Commerce is Bogotá
flag colors with the chamber's logo in the middle.
The Chambers of Commerce are regulated by the Superintendencia de Industria y
Comercio, Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (www.sic.gov.co)
The Chambers of Commerce are in charge of the registration of all
commercial traders, companies, and business in their jurisdiction
in order to serve as database for tax collection, as well as
advisory on establishing new companies, funding, training,
keeping up to date on commercial new legislation, organizing
commercial and trade fairs for various sectors, among other
important tasks.
E.R., 1 September 2008
located by Zoltan Horvath, 22 August 2013
CAPROVIMPO (Caja Promotora de Vivienda Militar y de Policía, Military and
Police Housing Promoting Bank in English) is a financial government institution
in charge of promoting housing for its members (active and retired military and
police personnel). It was established in 1947.
Source:
http://www.caprovimpo.gov.co/CAPROVIMPO/Paginas/NaturalezaJuridica.aspx
The flag is a horizontal flag, split into four, having the colors red on the top
left (Army), blue on the top right (Navy), light blue on the bottom left (Air
Force) and Green on the bottom right (Police). In the middle it has the
Coat of Arms
Images of flag: Picture taken on
August 22, 2011 at a local office in the city of Medellín, and cropped image from the following
video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nag3WiDl_Q (1:46)
For additional information please visit:
CAPRVIMPO (official
website)
Esteban Rivera, 12 December 2011
image located by Esteban Rivera, 19 September 2010
The Comisión Colombiana del Océano (Oceanic Colombian Commission) is a
government agency in charge of the Oceanographic Policy of the country as well
as its scientific and technical derivative study areas, with the purpose of
integrating the national maritime community into the international cooperation
programs of this field. The CCO was created by Decre No. 763 of 1969.
Source: http://www.cco.gov.co/reshis.htm
The flag is a navy blue horizontal background, with the CCO's
logo, seen on the right of this
banner) and bordering the logo is a grey fringe with blue capital letters with
the name of the commission, starting from the top of the fringe, in the middle,
reading (clockwise from top to bottom) COMISIÓN COLOMBIANA DEL OCEANO.
Image
from
(broken link) website:
http://www.cco.gov.co/anterior/simposio%20dia%20oceanos.htm (no longer
available) (imaged saved on January 7, 2010, no longer on the website)
For additional information check: CCO
(official website).
Esteban Rivera, 19 September 2010
image by Eugene Ipavec, 20 December 2005
This Colombian governmental flag is very similar to the flag
of the Procuraduría General de la Nación. It
has the same ratio, and same white background. This government
organization is in charge of keeping accounting records as
control over public expenditures. The main building for this
government organization is located in Bogota, but it has branch
offices in all the 32 Departments and also in the main cities.
Source: Official website
www.contraloriagen.gov.co.
E. R., 20 December 2005
located by Zoltan Horvath, 22 August 2013
The CGN (Contaduría General de la Nación) (Nation's General Accounting)
purpose is to improve the quality of accounting information, having products and
services to enhance better finance management for the administrative
authorities, modernizing the processes of gathering data, also incorporating
international fiscal standards fro transparency pruposes and promoting
participation of all economic actors.
Source:
http://www.contaduria.gov.co/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21&Itemid=46&lang=es
The CGN has its roots in the first political Consitution of Colombia, in 1821,
which created the Secretaría de Hacienda (Secretary of Treasury), today the
Ministry of Finance), and particularly by the Law of October 8, 821, which
established the functions of the Contaduría General de Hacienda (Treasury's
General Accounting) and ended in the more proper Law 36 of 1918 which
reorganized the Corte de Cuentas (Accounts Court) and set the rules for the
demise of both organizations.
Source:
http://www.contaduria.gov.co/dmdocuments/contaduria/resenah/historiaCGN.pdf
(page 3)
The functions of the current CGN were for many decades carried out by the
Comptroller General of the Republic
until the new Constitution
of 1991, which in its Article 354 established the creation of the post
of Contador General de la Nación (Nation's General Accountant).
Source:
http://www.contaduria.gov.co/dmdocuments/contaduria/resenah/historiaCGN.pdf
(page 26)
Later, under Law 298 of July 25, 1996 the Unidad Administrativa
Especial Contaduría General de la Nación was established.
Source:
http://www.contaduria.gov.co/dmdocuments/contaduria/resenah/historiaCGN.pdf
(page 27)
According to the above, the CGN should be located next to the Aeronáutica Civil
since they both are Unidades Administrativas Especiales (UAE).
The flag is seen
here:
at website:
http://www.auditoria.gov.co/templates/6_PrensaArchivo_150709.asp
The flag is a white horizontal flag with the
logo in the
middle. http://www.seminariosandinos.com/contaduria01/conta.jpg
For the complete historical background of this entity please see:
http://www.contaduria.gov.co/dmdocuments/contaduria/resenah/historiaCGN.pdf
For additional information please visit
CGN (official website): http://www.contaduria.gov.co/
Esteban Rivera, 3 September 2010
image by Randy Young, 26 July 2018
Tonight, on CM& tv news I spotted the new version of the flag, which is the
new logo (https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/644867659813797889/xHOXyB68.jpg,
source: CNE official Twitter account @CNE_COLOMBIA (https://twitter.com/cne_colombia))
over a horizontal white background.
Esteban Rivera, 26 July 2018
The CNE is in charge of all matters related to the election
process in Colombia.
I just saw on RCN tv news the flag of the CNE (Consejo Nacional
Electoral, National Election Council). The flag is the CNE logo
on the middle surrounded by a green circular fringe, on a white
rectangular background.
For a brief history of the entity see:
www.cne.gov.co>.
For more information see
wikipedia.
E. R., 25 November 2009
image by Eugene Ipavec, 2 July 2006
This is the flag of a Colombian government organization named
Defensoría del Pueblo, which is the equivalent to the European
Ombudsman. The flag should be a plain white background with the
Emblem on the middle.
Official website at www.defensoria.org.co.
E. R., 2 July 2006
image located by Esteban Rivera, 13 August 2021
On February 20, 2020, DIAN announced a restructuring process which had been
going on for 18 months already, in an effort to modernize not only the entity
itself (IT, approach to taxpayers, legitimacy and accountability) but also its
institutional image, in which they also unveiled their new logo (which in turn
would be applied to its new flag). They also had a
public tv ad which was aired to in June 2020 to show the new logo version. In turn, the new logotype was
officially adopted through Resolución No. 83, August 4, 2020 in which a new "Manual Corporativo de
Marca" (Brand Corporate Manual) is officially adopted (https://www.dian.gov.co/normatividad).
The new trademark received official registration from the SIC through Resolución
No. 12784, April 2, 2020. The
previous visual identity guidelines were adopted through Resolución No. 4167,
May 24, 2013 (https://www.dian.gov.co) called "Manual de Identidad Visual Institucional de la Dirección de
Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales DIAN" (Institutional Visual Identity
Manual of the Directorate of National Taxes and Customs DIAN). The previous flag is derived from
the previous logo, adopted through Resolución No. 6450, February 20, 2012
in which the corporate
image manual was adopted, formally labeled as "Manual de identidad visual
institucional" (Institutional visual
identity manual).
Sources:
https://www.dian.gov.co/Paginas/Nos-estamos-transformando.aspx
https://www.valoraanalitik.com/2020/02/20/dian-lanza-nueva-imagen-y-va-por-mas-recaudo-por-gestion/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmlue_7zb2Y
https://360radio.com.co/cambio-de-logo-dian and
https://www.portafolio.co/economia/en-vivo-asi-fue-la-transformacion-de-la-dian-538292
DIAN's status has been upgraded (if not earlier, at least
since 2021) to that of a UAE (Unidad Administrativa Especial) (Special
Administrative Unit), the sames as Aerocivil
Source:
https://www.dian.gov.co/Prensa/Paginas/NN-Proyecto-de-Resolucion-02022021.aspx
Esteban Rivera, 13 August 2021
image by Eugene Ipavec, 6 March 2008
The flag DIAN (Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales,
or National Tariffs and Taxes Directorate). The DIAN has the
category of a Unidad Administrativa Especial (Special
Administrative Unit), same status as Aeorcivil.
The DIAN was formed by the merger of the DAN (Dirección de
Aduanas Nacionales, National Tariffs Directorate) and the DIN
(Dirección de Impuestos Nacionales, National Taxes Directorate),
on June 1, 1993, when Decree No. 2117 of 1992 entered into force.
The DIAN is in charge of the administration and control of
of national taxes and tariffs.
The flag is the DIAN's logo (seen on the
official website) on a white
background.
Source: Screenshot of newspaper
El Tiempo of its online
edition of February 4, 2008
E. R., 6 March 2008
located by Esteban Rivera, 7 January 2010
The DGPAD (Dirección General de Prevención y Atención de Desastres) (General Directorate of Prevention and Attention of Disasters) evolved
from the
DPAD (Dirección de Prevención y Atención de Desastres) (Disaster
Prevention and Attention Directorate) which was established by Decree
No. 919 of 1989. Its predecessor was the ONPAD (Oficina Nacional para
la Prevención y Atención de Desastres) (National Office for the
Prevention and Attention of Disasters) which in turn was established
by Decree No. 46 of 1988.
The main background for this organization, were the three rather
consecutive disasters the country suffered: Tsunami in Tumaco (1979), and earthquake in Popayán (1983) and the
mudslide of the Armero Volcano (1985)
Thus by Decree No. 46 of 1988 the SINPAD (Sistema Nacional para la
Prevención y Atención de Desastres) (National System for the
Prevention and Attention of Disasters)
was created, as an integrated framework of cooperation between
National, Regional and
Local committies that work toghether in order to face any disaster
situation.
At the beggining, the ONPAD was an organization under the
Ministry of
Interior), and later it
was declared UAE (Unidad Administrativa Especial) (Special
Administrative Unit), like the Aerocivil, thus being called the
UAEPAD (Unidad Administrativa Especial para la Prevención y Atención
de Desastres), by Decree No. 0372 of February 26, 1996. Then by Decree
No. 2546 of December 23, 1999 it is changed into its current name,
DGPAD.
The DGPAD flag is on the right of this screenshot of tv news channel Caracol TV, taken on January 7, 2010.
For more information please see: DGPAD (official website).
Esteban Rivera, 10 October 2010
image by Zoltan Horvath, 20 August 2013
The INPEC has changed its flag recently. The
new flag is a blue horizontal background with the new
Coat of
Arms in the middle.
For the explanation of the CoA, please refer to
this page.
Esteban Rivera, 28 May 2013
image by Carlos Thompson, 5 November 2004
image by Carlos Thompson, 5 November 2004
image by Carlos Thompson, 5 November 2004
From www.inpec.gov.co:
"Mediante resolución Ministerial No. 3991 del 6 de
septiembre de 1965, sen adoptó la bandera de la Dirección
General de Prisiones, con las siguientes características:
La bandera estará compuesta por los colores blanco, rojo y
negro, distribuidos en tres franjas horizontales de iguales
dimensiones, de las cuales el blanco ocupará la superior, el
rojo la central y el negro la inferior. El color blanco
significará la purificación del individuo por la pena. El color
rojo, tenido como expresión del amor a la libertad, recordará
que aquella se conquista por la acción del trabajo. El color
negro evocará la austeridad e indicará que el
perfeccionamiento del hombre y su superación se logran con base
en el esfuerzo y constante disciplina.
La bandera del servicio de Prisiones que se ice en Pabellones,
deberá tener tres (3) metros de largo por dos (2) de ancho.
La bandera de Prisiones para desfiles tendrá un metro con
treinta y cinco (1.35) centímetros de largo, por un metro con
diez (1.10) centímetros de ancho. La bandera de desfiles
llevará en el centro un escudo que adopte como distintivo la
Dirección General de Prisiones.
La bandera estará confeccionada en seda suelta e irá sujeta al
asta por medio de un dobladillo o jareta amplia, hecho con la
misma tela."
Dov Gutterman, 26 May 2002
Flags of the General Prison Direction in Colombia (Dirección
General de Prisiones, known by their previous acronym: INPEC).
The flag for flying is 2 m. width by 3 m. long, and the
ceremonial flag is 1.10 m. width by 1.35 m. long, with the emblem
in the center. In the emblem, in the left side of the book
(dexter) is the following cite: "Con el estudio,
el trabajo y la disciplina romperás las cadenas del cautiverio,
porque el estudio eleva, el trabajo redime y la disciplina
libera". and around the legend says: "Ministerio de
Justicia y del Derecho - Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y
Carcelario" I don't know if this has changed, since
now the Ministry of Justice has merged with the Ministry of
Interior, and INPEC official name is Dirección Nacional de
Prisiones.
Carlos Thompson, 5 November 2004
INPEC stands for "Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y
Carcelario". It changed its name on5th of November, 2004.
However the abbreviation still stands even though the name
changed because people are more familiar with it.
It is not a police force. They are allowed to wear uniforms, use
weapons and have custody of all prisons but they are not an
organizational part of the Colombian Police, they are under the
the Minister of Interior and Justice.
Here is INPEC's coat of arms
from the book "Himnos y Símbolos de Nuestra Colombia"
, page 277. Written in 2000 by Julio Cesar García, edited by
Camer Editores. ISBN 958-33-1489-7.
E. R., 12 June 2006
Today during a news broadcast of local nes channel Hora 13 Noticias (13 Hour
News), a variant flag of the INPEC is
shown. It might be the flag of one of the jails administered by the INPEC,
called "Bellavista".
(Source:
http://www.h13n.com/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=1180&Itemid=85)
(The flag is shown on 1:00, on the far right, and it shows the color scheme of
the INPEC, white, red and black, plus a Coat of Arms)
Esteban Rivera, 31 January 2013
image from Facebook image from Facebook
The EPN (Escuela Penitenciaria Nacional "Enriqe Low Murtra", "Enrique Low
Murtra" National Prison School ), is Colombia's formation institution for all
the personnel in charge of custody in penitenciaries around the country, mainly
employed by the INPEC. It was established by
Decree No. 1817 of July 17, 1964.
Source:
http://www.epn.gov.co/bienestar-estudiantil/historia-epn.html
Its flag is a green horizontal flag, crossed from top left to bottom right with
the colors of INPEC, white/red/green/, as seen
here. (first flag on the top left). The flag can also be seen
here on their offical website.
Source:
http://www.epn.gov.co/bienestar-estudiantil/identidad/120-bandera-epn.html
The flag was commissioned through Circular No. 31, of August 1984, by contest,
issued by the (then) Dirección General de Prisiones (today known as
INPEC), headed back then by Bernardo Echeverri
Ossa. The official measures of the flag are: 3m long, 2m wide.
Source:
http://www.epn.gov.co/bienestar-estudiantil/identidad/120-bandera-epn.html
The Coat of Arms is seen
here.
Source:
http://190.25.232.99/mdle/index.php?lang=en_utf8 ).
Additional information on the Coat of Arms can be found
here.
For additional information go to: EPN
(official website)
Esteban Rivera, 27 July 2012
The EPN was established by "Decreto Ley 1817 del 17 de Julio de 1964" (English: Decree Law 1817 of July 17, 1964),
in which the National Penitentiary School was projected, as established in Article 93 and inaugurated on March 1, 1965. It received the denomination
in memoriam of Enrique Low Murtra, on June 28, 1966.
Source: https://epn.inpec.gov.co/reseña-histórica
For additional information go to EPN (official website): https://epn.inpec.gov.co/
Esteban Rivera, 27 May 2024
image from Facebook
image from Facebook
image located by Esteban Rivera, 20 March 2011
On March 10 a
news broadcast by local news channel RCN showed the flag of the DNE (Dirección
Nacional de Estupefacientes) (Narcotics National Directorate).
The DNE was established as a UAE (Unidad Administrativa Especial) (Special
Administrative Unit) on February 27, 1990, as an organization serving the
Ministry of Justice.
Source:
http://www.dne.gov.co/?idcategoria=10919
Its main purpose is to advise, coordinate and execute the Government's policies
focused on lowering illegal narcotics production, trafficking and consumption.
Source:
http://www.dne.gov.co/?idcategoria=122
The full extent of its current functions are outlined by Decree No. 2568 of
2003. These functions are outlined
here.
The flag is the logo of the DNE on a white rectangular background, as seen on
these images:
- a cropped image taken from video of
news broadcast of RCN news channel,
- and logo of the DNE, taken from the
DNE's official website.
For additional information: DNE (official website):
http://www.dne.gov.co/
Esteban Rivera, 20 March 2011