Estudio del Procedimiento de Obtención de Licencias Ambientales en Ecuador

Abstract

Environmental licensing in Ecuador is one of the most demanding regulatory processes, and depends on the various projects, works, or activities the users are involved in. The Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition, the Prefecture of Guayas, and the Municipality of Guayaquil are the three environmental authorities in charge of granting environmental permits in the province of Guayas. Consequently, the purpose of this study was to compare the management processes in terms of documentation and time taken by the three Environmental Authorities through the Critical Control Point tool to inform the user of the critical processes in which delays are generated. The study also analyzes the technical criteria in terms of documentation review and the payment of administrative fees. This work establishes a bibliographic review of the current regulations as a stage in the regulatory process of obtaining an Environmental License. The type of applied research is non-experimental and a transversal study was carried out. Through this study, it was concluded that the administrative licensing processes of each authority should simplify the procedures for each service, and be in accordance with environmental regulations.