New General Organic Code of Processes in Ecuador

New General Organic Code of Processes in Ecuador

Jun 14, 2017

Since May 2016, the General Organic Code of Processes (COGEP) came into force in Ecuador, which superceded the Civil Procedure Code and other related laws, through which the oral procedure is implemented on civil law, contentious tax and administrative, children and teens, labor, except for its application to the criminal and constitutional areas.

Process Types

COGEP establishes the following procedures: 

  1. Ordinary. All the disputes that do not have special process are processed and there are two hearings: the preliminary and the trial.
  2. Contentious taxation and contentious administrative.
  3. Summary.
  4. Volunteers.
  5. Executive.
  6. Monitory.