📋 Tender Overview
The proposal is aimed at strengthening artisanal mining centers to turn them into sustainable companies with social and environmental responsibility.After concluding meetings with various mining associations to socialize the draft law on Small-scale Mining and Artisanal Mining, the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) is preparing the final proposal for this law that proposes to regulate mining activity and promote the formalization of artisanal mining producers and small-scale mining producers at a national level. The draft law is aimed at promoting the development of sustainable and responsible artisanal and small-scale mining in the national territory. To achieve this, a series of legal incentives are promoted.
Likewise, it is proposed to regulate the transition from the Comprehensive Registry of Mining Formalization (REINFO) to an interoperable system with simplified procedures that makes the status of mining activities transparent and that is integrated with the 26 regional governments. The aim is to strengthen the Regional Directorates and Managements of Energy and Mines of the Regional Governments, in the exercise of their powers of supervision, inspection and promotion of mining activity; Through agreements with OEFA, OSINERGMIN and SUNAFIL, it is also proposed to authorize them to outsource these competencies to qualified companies, duly accredited by the MINEM. The project also enables the MINEM to establish special and temporarily exclusive zones for small-scale mining and artisanal mining, in addition to proposing the creation of an integrated system of public information and documentation on these activities.
It also provides incentives for the signing of exploitation contracts between miners with REINFO in the process of formalization and holders of mining concessions, so that both actors benefit from simplified processes. The MINEM committed to implementing a participatory process and socializing the draft Law from July 15 to the end of August of this year to collect the points of view of the main actors involved in the mining formalization process. Among them we have State entities, Regional Governments, mining organizations, companies, academia, among others, so that the final proposal is submitted to the PCM, the Presidency of the Republic and finally to the Congress of the Republic for their respective approval.
