The MARN environmental license versus prior consultation
- Social license and prior consultation
- Social license and prior consultation
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No. The environmental instrument (Government Agreement 137-2016, the Regulation on Environmental Evaluation, Control and Monitoring) classifies projects into categories A (high impact, full environmental impact assessment), B1 and B2 (moderate impact), C and the CR registry (minimal), over an exhaustive list of 14 sectors. The 'public participation' in the environment ministry (MARN) procedure — hearings, objections to the EIA — is a documentary requirement; the C169 consultation is a state-run process with a rights-holding collective counterpart. Escobal, Fénix and El Tambor had licenses and EIAs and were suspended for the defect the environmental instrument does not cover; Cerro Blanco also shows that an approved EIA can be annulled administratively for flaws in the file. Confusing the two is the most expensive way to learn Guatemalan law.
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- The death of State-licensed projects in Guatemala
- Guatemala's ratification of ILO Convention 169 and its obligations
- Absence of a prior consultation law and Initiative 5450
- Over 100 community consultations without binding force
- The Constitutional Court's four stages of prior consultation
- The missing consultation law as an investor risk
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