The Energy and Mines Commission of the Congress will debate this afternoon the prediction of a bill that proposes to extend, once again, the comprehensive mining formalization process for small-scale and artisanal mining (ASM) until December 31, 2027, or until a specific law for the sector is approved.
This initiative proposes modifying article 6 of Legislative Decree 1293, which declares the formalization of these activities to be of national interest.
Far from establishing effective mechanisms to close the cycle of informality, the prediction opts to indefinitely delay a process that has already accumulated more than a decade of extensions and questionable results.
The proposal includes the temporary suspension of the administrative procedures for exclusion from the Comprehensive Mining Formalization Registry (Reinfo), provided for in supreme decrees 001-2020-EM and 018-2017-EM, which further weakens the controls on those who fail to comply with the minimum formalization conditions.
In addition, the exceptional reincorporation into the formalization process of natural or legal persons that were excluded from Reinfo by Supreme Decree 012-2025-EM, published on June 29, is proposed. It will be sufficient to prove having carried out mining activities and express the will to comply with the technical, environmental and administrative obligations, without requiring concrete evidence of prior compliance.
The proposal also allows those reincorporated to resume the formalization process in the same state as it was on June 30, 2025, which could open the door to regulatory setbacks and the validation of irregular practices under the pretext of a new opportunity.
This ruling will be discussed today at 4:00 p.m. in the fourth extraordinary session of the Energy and Mines Commission, chaired by Congressman Víctor Cutipa (Together for Peru).
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