The Public Registry includes all Submissions filed to the SEM, along with their supporting documents and a detailed follow-up of the process for each case.
On February 2, 2024, the Tropical Ecological Foundation (FUNDETROP) and the Cibao Ecological Society (SOECI) and others, filed an environmental submission to the Secretariat of Environmental Matters of the Free Trade Agreement between the Dominican Republic, Central America and the United States of America -CAFTA-DR(SEM)-, in which they assert that the Dominican Republic is allegedly failing to comply with the effective application of its environmental legislation.
On February 8, 2024, Ernesto Inoa, in his name and on behalf of the collective "Grupo Ecológico Mundo Libre", filed a submission to the Secretariat for Environmental Matters of the Free Trade Agreement between the Dominican Republic, Central America, and the United States of America - DR-CAFTA (SEM), in which he asserts that the Dominican Republic is allegedly failing to enforce its environmental legislation effectively.
On April 23rd, 2024, a Guatemalan citizen filed a submission to the Secretariat for Environmental Matters of the Free Trade Agreement between the Dominican Republic, Central America, and the United States of America – CAFTA-DR (SEM), in which he asserts that the Republic of Guatemala is allegedly failing to enforce its environmental legislation effectively.