On 5 September 2024, Head Resolution No. 0357-2024-ANA was published, whereby the Regulation of Administrative Procedures for the Granting of Water Use Rights and Authorization for the Execution of Works in Natural Water Sources, approved by Head Resolution No. 007-2015-ANA, is amended. This amendment seeks to simplify the procedures for obtaining water use rights.
On 22 August 2024, Legislative Decree No. 1629 was published, amending Article 2 of Law No. 31992, Law for the Promotion of Green Hydrogen, which aims to promote the development of green hydrogen from renewable energy resources.
On 5 August 2024, Ministerial Resolution No. 435-2024-MTC/01.02 was published, approving the new Regulations on Aeronautical Infractions and Sanctions. The Regulations establish the classification of infractions related to Law No. 27,261, the Peruvian Civil Aeronautics Law. The Regulations incorporate Subchapter XV of the Peruvian Aeronautical Regulation on violations of environmental protection, aircraft noise reduction and the Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation.
On 27 July 2024, Supreme Decree No. 014-2024-EM was published. It establishes a new exceptional and non-extendable deadline for submitting the Detailed Environmental Plan. Owners of mining activities that have an environmental management instrument (IGA) in force and have built components or made modifications to the project can adapt their activities without previously having the IGA modified. Likewise, the procedure for evaluating mine closure plans has been optimized.
On 20 August 2024, Head Resolution No. 0323-2024-ANA was published. Through it, the Regulation for the Granting of Authorizations for Discharge and Reuse of Treated Wastewater, approved by Head Resolution No. 224-2013-ANA, was amended. It aims to optimize the evaluation of the procedures for renewing authorizations to discharge and reuse treated wastewater.
On 26 July 2024, Supreme Decree No. 013-2024-EM was published, establishing a new exceptional and non-extendable deadline to submit the Detailed Environmental Plan and the Abandonment Plan, so that hydrocarbon sector companies in progress that do not have an environmental management instrument (IGA) in force and have built components or made modifications to the project without previously modifying the IGA may adapt their activities.
On 9 June 2024, Supreme Decree No. 006-2024-MIDAGRI (Reglamento de Gestión Ambiental del Sector Agrario y de Riego — “Regulation”) was published. It updates the rules that regulate the environmental management of projects and activities in the agricultural and irrigation sector.
On 3 May 2024, Supreme Decree No. 004-2024-MINAM was published, amending the Regulations of Law No. 27446 (Law of the National Environmental Impact Assessment System (SEIA)). Its purpose is to standardize criteria for processing environmental certification requests and to promote the environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedure when binding technical opinions and observations are delayed.
On 28 May 2023, Legislative Decree No. 1570, which approves the Law of Integral Management of Chemical Substances, was published, with the aim of protecting human health and the environment from the hazards and risks associated with the use of hazardous chemical substances. The law will become effective as of the day following the publication of its regulations, which must be approved by MINAM within a period of no more than one year.
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.