Environmental Courts and their impact on environmental protection in the eastern zone of El Salvador.
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International pressure influenced the Environmental Law (LMA) to come into force in El Salvador in 1998, focused on the need to protect the environment by seeking more conscious management in the administration that the state must have over natural resources. The work of the National Civil Police (PNC), the Attorney General's Office (FGR) and the Environmental Courts (TA) is analyzed, analyzing capture data, legal procedures and resolutions issued by these institutions. It is obtained that 88% of the captures associated with environmental crimes (DA) issued by the PNC are in flagrancy, of this 46% for crimes against Protected Flora, the FGR has an upward trend in the last five years (2015 to 2020) of DA processes, while the Environmental Courts show weak institutionality, the resolutions issued by the TAs declare imposition of measures (58%) in the first place and in the second place resolutions that declare that the demands are unproposable (34%). It is concluded that despite the field effort and processes carried out to monitor crimes related to the Environment and Nature carried out by PNC and FGR, they conclude in an imposition of measures (Precautionary, action session, damage repair , among others) by the TAs, but that the high percentage of these procedures are insurmountable and therefore lead to judicial initiation.
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Girón Segovia, C. D. . (2024). Environmental Courts and their impact on environmental protection in the eastern zone of El Salvador. Inicio, 1(13), 17-27. Retrieved from https://revista.univo.edu.sv/index.php/investigacion/article/view/52
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