| Montreal, 4/04/2007 – Today, the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) made public its determination that submission SEM-07-001 (Minera San Xavier) does not meet all the eligibility requirements of Article 14 of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC). The Secretariat granted the Submitter a period of 30 days in which to file a revised submission with additional information.
The submission was filed 5 February 2007, by the organization Pro San Luis Ecológico, A.C. (the “Submitter”). The Submitter asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law with respect to the authorization of an open-pit mining project in the municipality of Cerro de San Pedro, San Luis Potosí. The Secretariat determined that the submission lacks information to clarify whether the Submitter pursued any remedy against an environmental impact authorization issued in 2006. In addition, the submission does not indicate whether the matter was communicated in writing to the relevant authorities.
The Secretariat’s executive director, Felipe Adrián Vázquez-Gálvez, recused himself from involvement with the Minera San Xavier submission upon receipt of the submission in February 2007. Mr. Vázquez-Gálvez did not participate in the determination announced today.
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