The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, as part of its plan to compact the State, ordered its deputies to approve the Law Initiative for the Transfer of Functions of the National Forestry Institute (INAFOR) to the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resourceswhich was carried out without further discussion with a “unanimous” vote of the Sandinista parliamentarians and their collaborators.
According to the explanatory statement presented by Daniel Ortega in the text of dissolution of Inafor, this measure is part “of the modernization process in the management of Natural Resources, especially Forest Resources”, which, says the Executive, “requires a reorganization of the institutional, technical and administrative efforts to improve and optimize programs and projects in order to efficiently address the problems and solutions that our population demands in this sector.
Ortega also argued that “a joint effort and the union of economic, technical, administrative and operational resources are required to improve the management and forestry regime of the country, for which it is necessary to work in a single direction through a single entity that “manage, protect and monitor the use and exploitation of forest resources.”
As part of the reform, Ortega ordered the addition of a paragraph to article 28 of Law 290, or Law of Powers of the Executive Branch, related to the functions of Marena: “Ensure compliance with the forestry regime throughout the national territory.” , will now say subsection (i) that they add to add bodies to the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources.
Likewise, it ordered the reform of Law 217, or General Law of the Environment and Natural Resources, to which they added a third article, related to the objectives of said regulations: “The prevention, regulation and control of any of the causes or activities that cause deterioration of the environment and contamination of ecosystems; as well as the administration, monitoring and control of Forest Resources,” says the text added in the modification.
The derogations
The most notable thing about this reform is that as part of the repeals, the Sandinista dictatorship orders the liquidation of all the functions that Inafor had as a decentralized entity, but it does not specify whether each of these actions will be managed by Marena or if they simply stop working. in its entirety.
For example, it eliminates from Law 462, or the Forest Sector Conservation Law, the first two paragraphs of Article 7 and kills articles 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 50.
In each of these articles, the responsibility of Inafor was detailed in the protection, guarantees, authorizations, forestry certifications, approval of permits, coordination, the establishment of measures to mitigate, prevent or combat fires and the impact on natural resources, the signing of agreements, the management of a forestry fund, among other measures, which do not specify in any point that they would now be executed by the same organization, even though it is within the Marena.
