Diario Oficial de la Federación

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The Official Journal of the Federation (Spanish: Diario Official de la Federación or DOF), published daily by the government of Mexico, is the main governmental journal 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 Official Journal of the Federation 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 Official Journal of the Federation, are published the main rules and regulations of the three federal powers. 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 Official Journal of the Federation 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 Official Journal of the Federation 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.