Overview
- Commission chair Víctor Cutipa confirmed a resumed session for Tuesday to consider a revised draft that keeps a two‑year prolongation and could reinstate around 50,000 previously excluded registrants, with the commission to decide the text it sends forward.
- More than 50 business associations urged lawmakers to reject any prolongation, warning it would foster illegality, undermine traceability and expose Peru to commercial measures within the Andean bloc.
- The Andean Community’s Secretariat General has found that repeated extensions favored illegal mining and breached community rules, and the Constitutional Court labeled Reinfo a failure while ordering authorities not to pass norms granting liability exemptions for environmental crimes.
- Dozens of small and artisanal miners gathered in central Lima in a Confemin‑organized mobilization hours before the scheduled debate.
- Analysts and critics point to chronic underfunding of the formalization program—about S/25 million a year over the past decade and S/14 million proposed for 2026—and note other bills seek to push the deadline to 2030 and suspend exclusion procedures.