Overview
- Ministry of Energy and Mines officials said on Thursday that they are evaluating a limited continuation of the REINFO register for miners who have clearly advanced in their formalization process rather than a blanket extension.
- The ministry estimates the focused continuation would affect roughly 30,000 workers who currently have active, ongoing formalization cases and who may need extra time to complete pending administrative steps.
- Minister Guillermo Shinno has ruled out reopening REINFO to new entrants and said technical teams are drafting the Ley MAPE to simplify procedures that currently block many small miners from finishing formalization.
- No legal norm or formal extension has been approved, the December 31, 2026 deadline from Law N.° 32537 remains in force, and Congress members are urging priority passage of the MAPE law instead of another broad prorroga.
- The proposal is meant to protect miners genuinely seeking legality and to help authorities separate those operators from illegal mining linked to criminal networks, an issue highlighted in regions such as Pataz and one reason critics oppose repeated extensions of REINFO.