OECD - Regulatory Enforcement and Inspections in the Environmental Sector of Peru

This report was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV), under the leadership of Janos Bertok, Acting Director. The review was led by Manuel Flores Romero, Co-ordinator of the programme on regulatory policy in Latin America, and by Daniel Trnka, Co-ordinator of the programme on regulatory management and delivery, both from the OECD Regulatory Policy Division. The report was co-ordinated under the leadership of Nick Malyshev, Head of the Regulatory Policy Division. The team received invaluable comments by the peer reviewers: Mr. Graham Russell, Chief Executive, Office for Product Safety & Standards, United Kingdom; and Gita Sematoviuciutem, then Head of the Business Supervision Policy Division, Business Environment Department, Ministry of Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania. The main authors are Giuseppa Ottimofiore, international expert on enforcement and inspections, Florentin Blanc, Andres Blancas, Alberto Morales, Gloriana Madrigal, Erik Perez, Daniel Trnka and Manuel Flores Romero from the OECD Regulatory Policy Division. Significant contributions were received from Martha Baxter, Anna Pietikainen, Andrea Uhrhammer, Klas Klaas, and Janos Bertok. Claudia Paupe, Anna Kanjovski and Mariama Diallo lent administrative and organisation support. Jennifer Stein co-ordinated the editorial process.

The review is based on information collected through a questionnaire in December 2018. The review team also held meetings in Lima, Peru, in March, April and July 2019, as well as in Cuzco and Truijjo, Peru, in April 2019, with a wide range of stakeholders, including government officials from several ministries and government agencies, representatives from the academia and business community, and experts in regulatory enforcement and inspections, and environmental topics.

A draft of the report was discussed in a meeting of the OECD Regulatory Policy Committee in November 2019. Thanks are extended to all delegates for their input and comments.

The OECD thanks the Environmental Evaluation and Enforcement Agency of Peru (OEFA), in particular Ms. Tessy Torres, President of the Board of OEFA; Karina Montes, Senior Advisor to the President of OEFA; and Mauricio Gonzalez, Head of the Office of Institutional Relations and Citizen Services.

Valuable information was provided by the teams of the Directorates of Supervision, Inspections, Assessment, and Policies and Strategies of the OEFA, as well by the advisory and support bodies, led by the General Manager, Miriam Alegria

The comments and experience from stakeholders of the private sector represented a useful input for this report. The OECD appreciates the participation of the public entities that participated, especially the Ministry of Environment and its affiliated bodies.