The oil spill in the Ventanilla sea has posed a great challenge for the public entities responsible for managing this environmental disaster. In addition, different voices of public opinion are demanding that La Pampilla Refinery, owned by Repsol, assume its responsibility, among other aspects, for the serious damage caused to wildlife. In this context, the National Forestry and Wildlife Service, through the Technical Forestry and Wildlife Administration of Lima, initiated an administrative sanctioning procedure against the company, accusing them of acting cruelly and causing the death of marine wildlife specimens. However, this action, which could be considered as an indispensable measure to achieve justice in the face of the serious damage caused to our natural resources, could end up becoming a serious setback in the State's search for environmental justice. From the analysis of the p...

This article takes a critical look at the application of the National Environmental Impact Assessment System. Thus, recognizing the importance of this legal regime to empower the role of the State in the environmental management of investment projects, as well as the prevention of socio-environmental conflicts, a review of the current institutional framework is carried out, specifically the changes and advances regarding the exercise of functions by Senace. In this line, the scope of an interpretative conflict related to the scope of non-significant environmental impacts on bodies of water is presented. Likewise, a critical view of the corrective environmental management instruments is presented. Finally, some ideas are presented regarding the procedure for updating environmental studies as a mechanism for the continuous improvement of environmental management instruments.

The oil spill in the Ventanilla sea has posed a great challenge for the public entities responsible for managing this environmental disaster. In addition, different voices of public opinion are demanding that La Pampilla Refinery, owned by Repsol, assume its responsibility, among other aspects, for the serious damage caused to wildlife. In this context, the National Forestry and Wildlife Service, through the Technical Forestry and Wildlife Administration of Lima, initiated an administrative sanctioning procedure against the company, accusing them of acting cruelly and causing the death of marine wildlife specimens. However, this action, which could be considered as an indispensable measure to achieve justice in the face of the serious damage caused to our natural resources, could end up becoming a serious setback in the State's search for environmental justice. From the analysis of the p...

This article takes a critical look at the application of the National Environmental Impact Assessment System. Thus, recognizing the importance of this legal regime to empower the role of the State in the environmental management of investment projects, as well as the prevention of socio-environmental conflicts, a review of the current institutional framework is carried out, specifically the changes and advances regarding the exercise of functions by Senace. In this line, the scope of an interpretative conflict related to the scope of non-significant environmental impacts on bodies of water is presented. Likewise, a critical view of the corrective environmental management instruments is presented. Finally, some ideas are presented regarding the procedure for updating environmental studies as a mechanism for the continuous improvement of environmental management instruments.

 The environmental management of investment projects in Peru has a great challenge: to guarantee their environmental viability through the search for a balance between the environmental impacts generated and the management measures implemented to prevent, correct, mitigate and even compensate them; all with the purpose of complying with the central objective of our environmental legal system, sustainable development. However, what happens when this task is found to be incomplete? When, for reasons unrelated and/or linked to the environmental impact assessment process, it is verified, during the exercise of the environmental supervision function, that the environmental management instruments do not identify all the impacts that in practice are being generated when they enter into execution. Our environmental legal system has regulated this assumption, establishing the possibility tha...

 The environmental management of investment projects in Peru has a great challenge: to guarantee their environmental viability through the search for a balance between the environmental impacts generated and the management measures implemented to prevent, correct, mitigate and even compensate them; all with the purpose of complying with the central objective of our environmental legal system, sustainable development. However, what happens when this task is found to be incomplete? When, for reasons unrelated and/or linked to the environmental impact assessment process, it is verified, during the exercise of the environmental supervision function, that the environmental management instruments do not identify all the impacts that in practice are being generated when they enter into execution. Our environmental legal system has regulated this assumption, establishing the possibility tha...

The oil spill in the Ventanilla sea has posed a great challenge for the public entities responsible for managing this environmental disaster. In addition, different voices of public opinion are demanding that La Pampilla Refinery, owned by Repsol, assume its responsibility, among other aspects, for the serious damage caused to wildlife. In this context, the National Forestry and Wildlife Service, through the Technical Forestry and Wildlife Administration of Lima, initiated an administrative sanctioning procedure against the company, accusing them of acting cruelly and causing the death of marine wildlife specimens. However, this action, which could be considered as an indispensable measure to achieve justice in the face of the serious damage caused to our natural resources, could end up becoming a serious setback in the State's search for environmental justice. From the analysis of the p...

This article takes a critical look at the application of the National Environmental Impact Assessment System. Thus, recognizing the importance of this legal regime to empower the role of the State in the environmental management of investment projects, as well as the prevention of socio-environmental conflicts, a review of the current institutional framework is carried out, specifically the changes and advances regarding the exercise of functions by Senace. In this line, the scope of an interpretative conflict related to the scope of non-significant environmental impacts on bodies of water is presented. Likewise, a critical view of the corrective environmental management instruments is presented. Finally, some ideas are presented regarding the procedure for updating environmental studies as a mechanism for the continuous improvement of environmental management instruments.