Overview
- The presidency formally submitted a reform of Law 26.639 to Congress and framed it as an urgent fix to legal uncertainty.
- The draft redefines key terms, with a focus on clarifying the contested concept of the periglacial environment.
- The plan limits statutory protection to glaciers with an effective hydric function, according to the official communiqué.
- The proposal invokes constitutional Articles 41 and 124 to justify greater provincial authority over environmental assessments and resource decisions.
- It envisions coordination with the National Glacier Inventory while transferring determinations on periglacial zones to provincial governments, with debate now moving to Congress.