The 11 areas where Chavez will be allowed to pass laws for the next 18 months are:

1. Transformation of the state, where laws are to be passed that make the state more efficient, honest, participatory, rational and transparent. 2. Popular (grassroots) participation, in the economic and social policies of the state, via planning, social comptrol and the direct exercise of popular sovereignty. 3. Essential values for the exercise of public functions, so that corruption would be eradicated definitively, the strengthening of ethics and the formation of public servants. 4. In the area of economic and social policy, so as to create a new sustainable economic and social model. The goal is to achieve equality and the equitable distribution of wealth through investment in health care, education, and social security. 5. Finances and taxation, to modernize the regulatory system in the monetary, banking, insurance and tax systems. 6. Citizen and judicial security, for the improvement of citizen identification, migration control and the fight against impunity. 7. Science and technology, so it is developed to satisfy the needs of education, health, environment, biodiversity, industrialization, quality of life, security and defense. 8. Territorial order, for a new distribution and occupation of subnational space, so as to improve the activities of the state and of indigenous development. 9. Security and defense, for the development of the structure and organization of the armed forces. 10. Infrastructure, transport, and services, to promote the existing human and industrial potential for the optimization of land, rail, sea, river and air transportation, as well as of telecommunications and information technology. 11. Energy sector, so that oil production in the Orinoco Oil Belt may be nationalized and turned into joint ventures, tax rates changed and electricity companies nationalized, among other things.