With 87 votes in favor, 18 against and 12 abstentions, exonerated from the second vote, the Plenary session of Congress approved in the session on Friday, November 29 the expansion of the Comprehensive Registry of Mining Formalization (Reinfo) until June 30, 2025. The opinion, which was approved by a majority in the Energy and Mines Commission, establishes the direction and extension of the term of the process of comprehensive mining formalization of the activity in small-scale mining and artisanal mining.
According to the opinion approved by Congress, which will now go to the Executive for evaluation and corresponding approval, it indicates that the extension of the Reinfo will be 6 months and can be extended for up to 6 more months (one year maximum, according to the proposal of the Ministry of Energy and Mines).
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The argument for the extension is based on a quest to grant more time to informal miners so that they can meet the necessary requirements so that they can work formally. However, this would not be a true solution. For the former vice minister of Environmental Management, Mariano Castro, he expressed on Canal N that this ruling would be an expansion without conditions that “do not solve the formalization problems.”
“(The opinion) does not specify how this process should reduce or eliminate social and environmental damage. Nor does it include aspects that were in other opinions, such as the conditions of permanence. (…) It is a simple postponement of a problem that is serious , growing and threatens environmental issues,” Castro added.
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