They will once again put their hands in the development of the standard. The Energy and Mines Commission of Congress summoned, once again, the informal miners’ unions, for Monday the 20th, at 10:00 am, to participate in the working table of the new Small Mining and Artisanal Mining Law , MAPE Law.
The new working day will be three hours and will take place in the Martha Hildebrandt room, as confirmed by Perú21.
Peru21 revealed that on Monday the 7th and Tuesday the 8th of this month, the informal miners of Confemin, led by its president Máximo Franco Bequer, participated in the work table for the development of the new ASM law.
This newspaper had access to the presentation document of the draft of the law that the aforementioned commission – chaired by the congressman of the Magisterial Bloc, Paul Gutiérrez – has been working on, which states that the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) “will prioritize mining easements in favor of peasant and indigenous communities, in the case of mining concessions located in areas of their superficial property.”
According to sources in the mining sector, what the aforementioned ruling would seek to do “is a clear attack on legal security, property and encourages the invasion of formal concessions; it would be a covert expropriation.”
“It establishes that in the absence of a consensus for the signing of an exploitation contract between the holder of a mining concession and a miner who aspires to formalize, the latter can resort to Minem to impose a mining easement and access through it to the exploitation of minerals,” the sources added.
In another part of the text—revealed by Perú21—it indicates that mining producers (PPM) and small artisanal mining producers (PMA) “may choose to prepare the environmental study or request its preparation from Minem.”
According to the mining sector, this “would transfer to Minem the technical and economic burden to prepare environmental studies and would be unconstitutional, since it would be diverting resources that come from the taxes of all citizens towards particular interests.”
INFORMAL MINERS ARE PARTY MILITANTS
Peru21 has made it known that some Confemin leaders are political party activists. They are: the president of Confemin, Máximo Franco Bequer, registered in Popular Renewal; José Torrealva (AmaPataz, from Pataz), in Podemos; and Adolfo Valverde, in Perú Libre (legal advisor).
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