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New regulations will allow a more agile and efficient procedure. The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) approved two guides designed to simplify the requirements necessary for the preparation of the Environmental Technical Sheet (FTA), which will allow adjustment to the nature and scope of projects that generate non-significant negative environmental impacts. These are the Content Guide of the Environmental Technical Sheet for Mining Exploration Projects Not Subject to the SEIA and the Content Guide of the Environmental Technical Sheet for Mining Exploration Projects of Less Complexity, in accordance with Ministerial Resolution No. deg 237-2024-MINEM/DM, published last Tuesday, June 11.
This measure responds to the need to adapt the requirements of the previous guide, approved by Ministerial Resolution No. 108-2018-MEM-DM, to the reality of mining exploration projects in Peru, where, as is known, there are exploration projects with a low probability of generating significant negative environmental impacts or risks, which is why the new regulations allow for a more agile and efficient procedure. Along these lines, these new guides seek to promote mining investment in the country given that mining owners will be able to prepare environmental studies in less time and at a lower cost, without this meaning a lower quality of the environmental study, which will lead to a increased employment and improvements in quality of life.
The guide for mining exploration projects not subject to the SEIA includes Chapter IX, which establishes that those owners who present exploration projects that comply with a number less than or equal to 10 platforms, an area to be disturbed less than or equal to 5 hectares, a distance greater than or equal to 100 meters to bodies of water, wetlands, conduction channels, groundwater collection wells, springs or puquials, and a distance greater than or equal to 100 meters from the platforms or drilling projections to the maximum footprint in winter of a snowy mountain, glacial area, protected lands or primary forests, may present the FTA Content Guide for Mining Exploration Projects of Less Complexity.
Ministerial Resolution No. 237-2024-MINEM/DM and its respective annexes are now available on the website of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, in the regulations and legal documents section: (https://www.gob.pe/ institution/minem/legal-norms/5647967-237-2024-minem-dm). Finally, it is specified that the MINEM will hold an information workshop on the new regulations the second week of July, aimed at mining owners, environmental consultants and the general public, to guarantee correct dissemination and understanding of the changes in the regulations.
