📋 Tender Overview
The aim is to reinforce the preventive approach and unify environmental supervision in a key sector for the countrys urban development.Considering the urban expansion and the sustained growth of infrastructure projects in the housing and construction subsector, the transfer of functions from the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation (MVCS) to the Environmental Assessment and Supervision Agency (OEFA) strengthens environmental supervision and contributes to ensuring adequate compliance with environmental obligations in one of the most dynamic sectors in the national territory.
As part of this process, the Minister of the Environment, Miguel Espichan, held a working meeting with his counterpart from the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation (MVCS), Wilder Sifuentes, in which the technical and administrative guidelines necessary to guarantee an orderly, efficient and articulated transition of these powers to the OEFA were addressed.
During the meeting, it was highlighted that this transfer will allow the OEFA to be formally incorporated as the entity responsible for environmental oversight in the housing and construction subsector, consolidating a preventive approach aimed at promoting timely compliance with environmental obligations, in accordance with the principles established in the General Administrative Procedure Law.
The OEFA will prioritize guidance and prevention actions, strengthening the environmental compliance capabilities of those administered. This change contributes to consolidating a more articulated and efficient environmental oversight system, in a context in which urban development poses growing challenges for sustainability and quality of life in cities, said the Minister of the Environment.
Along these lines, Espichan explained that the OEFA will develop indicative supervisions aimed mainly at companies and entities linked to the housing and construction subsectors, with the objective of promptly identifying possible non-compliance and promoting their correction before they generate significant environmental impacts or lead to administrative sanctioning procedures.
Finally, the importance of maintaining permanent coordination between the entities involved was highlighted, as well as ensuring an adequate understanding of the sectoral processes and the applicable regulatory framework, in order to guarantee effective implementation of these new powers.
