📋 Tender Overview
Initiative seeks to order the development of small-scale mining activities, and allow the transition to a new formality regime.The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) presents the draft Law on Small Mining and Artisanal Mining, as an effort by the sector to organize small-scale mining activities and conclude the ongoing comprehensive mining formalization process, whose maximum deadline extends until December 31, 2024, in accordance with Legislative Decree No. 1293.
The initiative has considered all the contributions raised from academic fields, as well as those received from different levels of civil society and groups related to small-scale and artisanal mining, and the proposals raised in the working groups on said matter.
Likewise, it will be subjected to a round of dissemination with the public entities involved, representative groups of small mining producers and artisanal mining producers, among other civil society actors.
Among other provisions, the document proposes regulating the transition of natural and legal persons registered in the Comprehensive Registry of Mining Formalization (REINFO) to the new formality regime proposed by the standard.
This will allow them to access simplified procedures and benefits that enable the development of their activities in a sustainable manner in economic, social and environmental terms.
Likewise, it seeks to strengthen the Regional Governments - through the Regional Directorates and Management of Energy and Mines - in the exercise of their supervisory, inspection and other powers, and it is proposed to empower them to outsource these powers to duly qualified companies. accredited before the MINEM.
The project, among other aspects, enables the MINEM to establish special and temporarily exclusive zones for small-scale and artisanal mining, in addition to proposing the creation of an integrated public information and documentation system on these activities.
Likewise, it regulates incentives for signing exploitation contracts and obliges different Public Administration entities to develop simplified procedures that make possible the granting of authorizations, permits and others necessary for the development of mining activities.
The MINEM seeks for the bill to be the product of a participatory process, which allows the points of view of the greatest number of actors involved to be collected.
The process of developing the standard will conclude with the approval of the legislative proposal by the Council of Ministers and its presentation to the Congress of the Republic as a public initiative of the Executive Branch, as established by the current legal framework.
