According to the Government, it seeks to recover sovereignty over the activity and order it under criteria of environmental, social and economic justice.

The drafting of the proposal was preceded by a participatory exercise in which more than 20 thousand people were involved in forums, ethnic roundtables and public hearings, with the inclusion of 13 thousand members of 115 indigenous peoples and nearly 400 Afro-Colombian organizations, as well as members of the Fifth Commissions of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

In total, according to the Ministry of Mines, 266 comments were received from all economic, social and environmental sectors.

“We want the congressmen to know first hand about this initiative, which arises from a deep talks with communities, miners, businessmen, environmentalists and territorial authorities, Minister Edwin Palma said.

The goal is for everyone to take part in the debage and for us to achieve together the best mining law for the country”,Palma stressed.

He highlighted as part of its content the proposal to recover sovereignty over minerals, to organize the sector from the territory, to guarantee the participation of ethnic communities and to overcome the extractivist model in line with the energy transition.

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