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Measure seeks to optimize the evaluation for the approval of the Environmental Impact Declaration and the Semi -Detalled Environmental Impact StudyThe Minister of Energy and Mines, Jorge Montero Cornejo, announced, during his recent participation in the PDAC 2025 carried out in Canada, which will be modified by the Environmental Protection Regulations for Mining Exploration Activities, with the purpose of expediting the investment carried for this item in our country.
Through Ministerial Resolution No. 072-2025-MINEM/DM, published by the newspaper El Peruano, the publication of the Supreme Decree that modifies the Environmental Protection Regulations for Mining Exploration Activities, which contains the early classification for mining exploration activities according to the type of project and category of the National Environmental Impact Evaluation System.
The new regulations seeks to optimize evaluation procedures for the approval of the Environmental Impact Declaration (DIA) and the Semi-Detalled Environmental Impact Study (EIA-SD), requested by investors for their exploration projects.
In the annex early classification of mining exploration projects, it is indicated that, in category I - Dia, for slight impact projects, the number of drilling platforms is increased to 60 (the previous standard only includes 40), in an effective disturbed area of up to 14 hectares and the construction of tunnels with a length of up to 100 meters.
And in category II-EIA-SD, for projects with moderate impacts, the new standard will allow to install 60 to 700 drilling platforms, in a disturbed area greater than 14 hectares and the construction of tunnels of more than 100 meters in length.
The new normative proposal also adeces the deadlines, mechanisms, verification of the documentation, correction and evaluation of the requirements, as indicated in Article 46.- Presentation of the request for approval of the day, Article 47.- Evaluation of the day, Article 49.- Remission of the lifting of observations of the day, Article 51.- Presentation of the request for approval of the EIA-SD EIA-SD and Article 53. OPINANTS IN THE EIA-SD EVALUATION PROCEDURE.
It should be noted that RM Na072-2025-MINEM/DM, commissioned the General Directorate of Environmental Affairs (DGAAM) of the MINEM, the consolidation and evaluation of the comments and contributions, of the Supreme Decree that will be received in the email: Consultations_dgaam@minem.ghob.pe, or at the Table of Parts of the Ministry until next March 15.
