Lima, Jan 22, 2000. The General Secretariat of the Andean Community today renewed the contents and design of its web site (www.comunidadandina.org) by incorporating new sections and services, particularly a practical new mechanism for doing business in the subregion (only spanish).

The new structure, with its clearly differentiated sections and a design simplified into images, has the advantage of allowing for rapid and easy access to a vast amount of information in Spanish and English covering over 7,000 web pages.

The new sections refer to the trade in goods and services, the Common Market, social agenda, infrastructure and borders. In order to encourage more interaction with users, a survey mechanism, inquiries to the Documentation Center, fortnightly information about new developments by e-mail, and a free registry for journalists in the Press Room, have been added.

The new web improved on the contents of the CAN profile and its bodies and institutions, as well as on the presentation and search for Andean legal provisions and the Official Gazette of the Cartagena Agreement.

It will be shortly incorporating the Debate section, which is expected to become a meeting place for reflection with users about the major issues of the Andean integration process.