translated from Spanish: The urgency of improving the current environmental legislation

Public space studies Centre conducted a series of reports to evaluate the performance of the new institutions (Superintendency of environmental and environmental court) which has the Ministry and came to the conclusion that there is a low accessibility citizens to environmental justice.
One of the first observations was that the agencies responsible for ensuring the protection of the environment are subsequent to the approval of the project. Another Treaty is that those who use more environmental courts, are the owners of the projects and mainly made it so you can run your purpose.
In this sense, it is very difficult for citizenship to paralyze a work underway, according to the data handled by public space “only 3 of 106 cases have stalled projects and of these, none has been won by an indigenous community”.
Likewise, those who come to the Superintendency of environmental allegations to are people who have daily problems with companies such as noises or odors and many of these are suspended, since managers do not infringe the law and it is not It is possible to reach an effective sanction.
Another situation that sum is waiting time after allegations that manage to pass a sanction process, since the answer takes between 11 and 21 months since he joined the Superintendence. Despite this, complaints become keys at the time of audit.
How to improve access to environmental justice?
The Center studies proposes a series of changes in the Superintendency of environmental management, creating a digital platform that allows to receive and address complaints online.
Also provide legal and technical assistance to citizens, strengthening the role of the national human rights Institute and generating competitive grants to NGO’s of clinical and legal consultants who give advice to society.
Other include promoting access to environmental information in the citizenship, create alternative mechanisms for resolution of environmental problems and the establishment of legal reforms.

Original source in Spanish

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