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Environmental Law Journal becomes part of Scielo Chile
The publication edited by the Environmental Law Center will be part of an open access collection of Chilean scientific journals in all areas of knowledge.
The Environmental Law Journal, edited by the Environmental Law Center of the Law School of the University of Chile, was admitted to be part of the SciELO - Chile Scientific Electronic Library.
SciELO - Chile is an open access collection of texts from Chilean scientific journals, from all areas of knowledge, which predominantly publish articles resulting from scientific research, and which uses peer review of the manuscripts they receive, which show a growing performance in the indicators of compliance with the indexing criteria.
"We are very pleased with this recognition, which is the result of an effort of continuous improvement of the editorial processes developed by the editorial team, which has resulted in the growing increase in the quality of the articles published over the years," said the director of the Journal, Prof. Valentina Durán Medina, adding "we are grateful for the support of the Faculty, which through its Dean, Prof. Pablo Ruiz-Tagle, and the Journals Program of the Research Department, headed by Prof. Daniel Álvarez, has provided permanent support to the work of the journal."
"Once the collaboration agreement between the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile and the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) is signed, the full incorporation of the journal to this collection will take place, starting in 2022" explained the editor Jorge Ossandón Rosales.
This good news is in addition to the admission, in 2020, of the Environmental Law Journal to the SCOPUS database.
As a result, in 2022 the Environmental Law Journal will already be indexed in Scopus, Redib, DOAJ and Latindex, in addition to ScIELO, with the support of SISIB and the Journals Program of the Research Department of the Law School of the Universidad of Chile.
It should be noted that Issue 16 of this biannual journal will be published on December 31.
Nearly ten years after the regulation of the expiry of Environmental Permits: ten legal-practical dilemmas in its application
Authors
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Teresita Chubretovic Arnaiz
Investigador Independiente
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-5531
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Gustavo Arellano Reyes
Investigador Independiente
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8749-3949
Abstract
This article studies the expiry and accreditation of Environmental Permits. It provides a review of the expiry of Environmental Permits, its normative consecration and its implementation by the Environmental Assessment Agency and the Superintendency of the Environment. Then, it raises ten legal-practical dilemmas around the expiry and accreditation of Environmental Permits. In particular, it examines questions of legality, legal certainty, means for contesting and administrative coordination. It highlights the lack of regulation under which projects remain once their implementation has been accredited; the absence of mechanisms that effectively force their continuity; and external situations that may affect their continuity. In this context, the work intends to approach the question of whether in the first ten years of application of the expiry of Environmental Permits, the aim that the legislator had in mind when including article 25 ter in Law No. 19300 is fulfilled: that projects are executed under similar baseline conditions to those considered in the environmental impact assessment procedure. This, it is argued, has not been sufficiently achieved. A series of regulatory adjustments are necessary, which are outlined throughout the study.
Keywords:
Expiry, Project implementation, Environmental permit, Superintendency of the Environment, Environmental Assessment AgencyReferences
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