On 15 March 2024, Ministerial Resolution No. 000069-2024-PRODUCE was published, approving the Annual Plan for Environmental Assessment and Control (PLANEFA) for the fisheries subsector and the aquaculture subsector of the Ministry of Production for the year 2025. The PLANEFA is a planning instrument through which each Environmental Audit Entity (EFA) schedules the environmental audit actions to be carried out during the corresponding calendar year. This plan is essential to strengthen coordination between the Peruvian Environmental Assessment and Enforcement Authority (OEFA) and the EFAs in the formulation, execution and evaluation of their respective environmental auditing plans.

Last 30 May, Supreme Decree No. 006-2023-MINAM was published, whose Fourth Final Complementary Provision establishes that the Single Procedure of the Environmental Certification Process is suspended until 1 January 2025, for all stages, requirements, deadlines and other aspects related to the environmental certification process in charge of SENACE.

On Saturday, 11 December, Resolution No. 00028-2021-OEFA/CD was published, through which the Environmental Monitoring Report Registration Module was created and the Environmental Monitoring Report Registration procedure approved.

By Ministerial Resolution No. 072-2021-MINAM, published in the Official Journal El Peruano on 30 April 2021, the Ministry of the Environment ordered the publication of the Draft Supreme Decree approving the ‘Provisions for the Management of Eco-Efficiency in Public Administration Entities’ in its institutional portal, in order to receive opinions and/or suggestions from interested parties, for a period of 15 working days from the publication.

By Emergency Decree No. 031-2021 (“DU 031”), published in the Extraordinary Edition on 10 March 2021, the payment regime for state compensation in favor of people who present an “Effect Supposedly Attributed to Vaccination or Immunization” (ESAVI in Spanish) of severe character was approved.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all countries in Latin America. Administrative measures that limit or restrict economic activity have been adopted in most countries. Only some activities or industries have been able to continue operating, while the rest of the companies are waiting for the restrictions to be lifted in…

In view of the health crisis in Latin America following to the outbreak of COVID-19, as well as the economic and social impacts of this situation, many people and companies have expressed interest in collaborating with the governments to support their goal of preventing and controlling the spread of the…