To anonymous report circulating in different sectors about alleged irregularities in the mobilization and utilization procedures charcoal, Regional Autonomous Corporation of La Guajira wishes to inform the public that:

• Corpoguajira firmly rejects such actions that go against the act transparent and adhered to Colombian law that has been carrying this institution.
• The resolution 0753 of 2018 issued by the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development clearly outlines the guidelines to produce charcoal and for the mobilization of existing, establishing in its preamble technical reasons, Legal, social and economic that drove this standard.
• The resolution 0753 It born from demand for traditional authorities of La Guajira and has served to regulate logging for charcoal production and mobilization of existing nationwide.
• That decision granted within 3 months from publication to legalize existing charcoal.
• The resolution remains in effect for forest harvesting procedures for production of charcoal.
• Widely native language and socialization was conducted in the media about the scope of the resolution 0753 aforementioned.
• After the issuance of the resolution lot of users made requests, some without fulfilling legal requirements that were discarded by procedure and others with complete documentation of which they were granted 23 authorizations for mobilization charcoal.
• Annex to the complaint in question form corresponds to the request for settlement services environmental assessment and consists of several data within which is the value of the project subject to assessment and maliciously has been used by the complainants anonymous to say this process corresponds to the value of which is not true and can be substantiated in the documents adopted by our Quality Management System.
• The resolution 1186 of 2018 regulates the amounts for environmental assessment services and these are standardized in order to avoid subjectivities when carrying out the settlement of the costs listed above, in consecuense, the value of the requested permits arising from exercise to establish the location of the project and determine the project costs (manifested by the user) thus determined by Article 28 de la ley 344 of 1996, as amended by Article 96 Of law 633 of 2000 and adopted in Corpoguajira by agreement 002 of 2017.
• The accompanying applications to the wrong unfounded complaint correspond to two users freely made its passage through the Single Window Environmental Procedures VITAL and which amount corresponds to the recorded there considered by the user as the value of your project but not the value of the process.
• Such requests were not granted because they did not have the full requirements of the Colombian environmental regulations.
• Single Window Environmental Procedures – VITAL – is a platform managed by the National Agency of Environmental Licenses - ANLA – and each procedure is advanced online user, this entity, as being validator, only takes care of printing and reporting as the user receiving the request. The National Police as an institution also has control and password to verify the veracity of the letters of transit through a process of transparency in real time.
• The respective resolutions by which these environmental permits are granted are duly notified to the petitioner, the police authorities and the Agricultural and Environmental Attorney addition to being published on institutional website and to date has not received any comments with respect to the corresponding mobilization of coal utilization for production by the Ministry Public.
• Documents for each application are public and can be consulted when necessary.
• RESOLUTION – charcoals