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 10 September 2024, Ministerial Resolution No. 0309-2024-MIDAGRI was published, approving the electronic document called “Deforestation Free Certificate” for agricultural producers. This certificate is issued after verifying the non-existence of deforestation in the evaluated area and ensuring compliance with current regulations.
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.
Law No. 32102, an amendment to the Telework Law, has been published, incorporating rights and obligations for teleworkers, as well as modifications to the minimum content of telework agreements.
The Executive Power will adapt the Regulation of the Telework Law to these new rules within 90 calendar days.
INDECOPI has updated the four rankings related to the important work of eliminating bureaucratic barriers in 2023.
Some of the bureaucratic barriers identified in these rankings have been promoted by our study, such as the one that determined the illegality of suspending administrative procedures.
We highlight INDECOPI’s important work, through an easy-to-understand tool to know the efforts in administrative simplification and promotion of market development for both companies and entrepreneurs.
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.