He National Service for Environmental Certification for Sustainable Investments (Senace) and the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) will seek to reduce the deadlines for the issuance of environmental management instruments in the evaluation of investment projects in the mining-energy sector, and even “cut” some permits associated with them.
Joanna Fischer, executive president and general manager of Senace, explained to La República that, currently, there is an excessive delay in the delivery of permits and instruments of this type, as is the case of the Supporting Technical Report (ITS), which should not exceed 30 days, but in Peru it can take twice as long.
“The ITS is the shortest in terms of procedures that it should occupy, since they are minor movements [en un proyecto]. At Senace we are trying to see the regulation and that it does not exceed the 30 business days required by the norm. Let’s take into account that citizen participation has been added to the latest regulations, although very small and in accordance with the level of changes and impacts that will occur,” he stressed during the forum Trends in the Latin American region of the mining-energy sector.
In the same way, the head of Senace explained that there are other instruments that require more time in the institution, such as a modification of the detailed Environmental Impact Study (EIAd), which can six-fold its issuance period in 120 business days. To that, we must add all the previous work with the communities.
“We have EIAD that have lasted a couple of years. It happens that this goes to technical opinion makers like ANA, Serfor and Sernamp, and depending on the response capacity, the file is worked on, which comes and goes. It is complicated,” said Fisher .
Senace: reduce environmental permits in Peru
In this sense, Joanna Fischer said “to find spaces” to reduce the excessive paperwork in environmental matters that goes through Senace, so that the EIAd are more agile. For this purpose, they seek to promote a joint agenda with the Minem.
“On the mining issue, we are seeing that we could talk with Minem so that, through Senace, various permits that have to do with environmental issues are reduced. That’s where we could start,” Fisher revealed.
It should be noted that, since its creation, Senace has approved 65 EIAd and its modifications, which imply US$24,944 million in sustainable investments for the country. Likewise, the entity executed 159 conflict prevention strategies and social management actions. Senace answers to the Ministry of the Environment (Minam).
With this new management [del ministro Oscar Vera Gargurevich] We are trying to evaluate the reduction of these deadlines, as with hydrocarbons,” he said.
Source: Larepublica
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