Mining or industrial activity? The Legal Qualification of the Cement Manufacturing Process and the Bet for a Certain Normative Framework that Clarifies the Competences of the Ministry of Energy and Mines and the Ministry of Production

• Autor: Palomino Seguín, Daniel Jesús
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2014
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/12489
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechoysociedad/article/view/12489
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Mining Law; Cement Manufacturing Process; Benefit Mining Concession; Industrial Activity; Derecho Minero; Producción de Cemento; Concesión de Beneficio; Actividad Industrial

Mining or industrial activity? This is not only an ancient question in Peruvian mining sector but a key issue for domestic and foreign private investment on cement. Since few years ago, cement manufacturing process has been being qualified and regulated by the Peruvian Mining Authority as a mining benefit process which implies the obligation to obtain a benefit mining concession previously. However, upon a review of the technical process aspects, the legal framework in force and a recent judgment enacted by the Constitutional Court of Peru regarding this topic, the position traditionally assumed by the Ministry of Energy and Miningcould be reconsidered.