Mexican Environmental Legislation

• Autor: Basurto Gonzáles, Daniel
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2014
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/12475
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechoysociedad/article/view/12475
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Constitución mexicana; Legislación ambiental mexicana; Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT); Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente (PROFEPA); Normas Oficiales Mexicanas (NOM’s); Normas Mexicanas (NMX’s); Agencia Nacional de Seguridad Industrial y de Protección al Medio Ambiente del Sector Hidrocarburos; Mexican Constitution; Mexican environmental law; Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT); Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA); Mexican Official Standards (NOM’s); Mexican Standards (NMX’s); Environmental liability; National Agency of Industrial Safety and Environmental Protection of Oil Sector

The evolution of environmental law in Mexico has developed efficient mechanisms for environmental protection. Mexico’s legal system stems from the civil law tradition and therefore is a system of positivelaw. Thus, the Mexican legal system is based in written laws, regulations and other legalprovisions, created by the legislature (Federal Congress) and applicable in the Mexicanterritory, without losing sight of Mexican Official Standards (NOM’s) and Mexican Standards (NMX).The present article will make and overview on the transformation of environmental law since 1987’s constitutional reforms, to the present day.