In the next few hours, the Executive will send to Congress the law to formalize informal miners, known as the MAPE Law, reported Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén.
This, after the aforementioned bill was approved in the Council of Ministers, which will put an end to the Comprehensive Registry of Mining Formalization (Reinfo), in which there are camouflaged illegal miners.
However, the Minister of Energy and Mines, Rómulo Mucho, pointed out that the aforementioned project contemplates leaving open the possibility of extending, for a limited time, the period so that informal miners who want to become legal can do so. That is, so that they continue with their formalization process.
This, after the aforementioned bill was approved in the Council of Ministers, which will put an end to the Comprehensive Registry of Mining Formalization (Reinfo), in which there are camouflaged illegal miners.
However, the Minister of Energy and Mines, Rómulo Mucho, pointed out that the aforementioned project contemplates leaving open the possibility of extending, for a limited time, the period so that informal miners who want to become legal can do so. That is, so that they continue with their formalization process.
“We know that there are groups that are asking for the extension of the Reinfo. In the bill we facilitate transitionality, so that those who really want to formalize it, continue with their procedure, with a limited time. We do not want to cut off those who want to submit to the law. We hope that this (the ASM Law), in Congress, will be debated,” Mucho said.
On the other hand, last Tuesday, the Energy Commission approved holding, this Friday the 22nd, a technical working table to discuss the expansion of Reinfo. This occurs amidst the arrival in Lima of hundreds of informal miners from Ayacucho, Arequipa and Puno—among whom there are illegal miners—who are demanding a two-year extension of the Reinfo, which expires on December 31 of this year.
I KNEW THAT
-Many said that Reinfo will have an expiration.
-Confemin, a union of informal miners, will not leave Lima until it extends the registration period.
