📋 Tender Overview
Starting on July 15, the regulatory proposal will be announced in order to collect concerns and comments. The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) will begin, starting next July 15, a process of socialization of the draft of the new Small Mining and Artisanal Mining Law. Mayra Figueroa, head of the General Directorate of Mining Formalization (DGFM), specified that said area is focused on this purpose, which is why this device has been working in permanent coordination with Minister Romulo Mucho and the Vice Minister of Mines, Henry Luna.
The idea is to have a legal framework that allows us to regulate small and artisanal mining, because the formalization process should reach a culmination since we understand that, like any process, this one also has a temporality, he said in an interview. a Regional Communication Network.
The official explained that there is a commitment from the MINEM so that the regulatory proposal is socialized with various entities, as well as with organized civil society, some federations and academia, in order to collect their concerns and comments.
She stressed that all the legislative proposals and studies that were presented to the MINEM have already been analyzed, and that one of the main bottlenecks of the formalization process is obtaining the exploitation contract that must be signed with the holder of the mining concession.
That is one of the points we are addressing in the regulatory proposal. What we have stated is that as a State we cannot affect the right of the holder of the mining concession, but we can evaluate mechanisms that allow correct articulation between the miner, who fulfills the commitments, and the holder of the concession, she pointed out.
The director of the DGFM indicated that there are currently 2,067 formalized registrations at the national level among natural or legal persons and 9,522 people indirectly benefited by this process, with 23,268 current registrations that are on the verge of achieving their formalization.
To date Arequipa has 16,592 registrations, the highest number among the regions in REINFO, followed by Puno with 12,320 and Madre de Dios with 9,158, she concluded.
