📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM), as established by Supreme Decree No. 017-2023-EM published in the official newspaper El Peruano, aims to enable and enhance the actions that allow the implementation of the Digital Single Window of the Mining Sector (VUD-MINEM), optimizing actions aimed at its implementation for the unlocking and development of mining activity in a responsible manner. The Supreme Decree states that the MINEM will be the administrative entity responsible for the management, operation and maintenance of the VUD-MINEM, being empowered to convene the participating entities, in order to ensure the proper implementation and operation of the Single Window.
Along these lines, the aforementioned standard includes the participation of nine entities to integrate the Single Window: the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute (INGEMMET); the National Environmental Certification Service for Sustainable Investments (SENACE); the National Superintendence of State Assets (SBN); and the Ministry of Culture.
The National Superintendence of Public Registries (SUNARP) is also involved; the National Water Authority (ANA); the National Forest and Wildlife Service (SERFOR); the National Superintendence for the Control of Security Services, Weapons, Ammunition and Explosives for Civil Use (SUCAMEC) and the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (SERNANP), all these entities depending on the chain of procedures of a mining project.
In its considerative part, the document refers to Law No. 27658, Framework Law on the Modernization of State Management, which declares the Peruvian State in the process of modernization, in its different instances, dependencies, entities, organizations and procedures, with the aim of improving public management and building a democratic, decentralized State at the service of the citizen.
It also states that Article 1211 of the Single Harmonized Text of Legislative Decree No. 8 defines the single window as the articulation of two or more public entities to provide their services and procedures in a partial or fully integrated manner, through chains of procedures, with the aim of improving the quality of care for natural and legal persons.
This Supreme Decree is countersigned by the President of the Council of Ministers; the Minister of Energy and Mines; the Minister of the Environment; the Minister of Housing, Construction and Sanitation; the Minister of Culture; the Minister of Justice and Human Rights; the Minister of Agrarian Development and Irrigation; and, the Minister of the Interior.
