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 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.
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 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 January 24, 2023 the Grupo Ecológico Mundo Libre GREMULI, Grupo Ecológico Serie 36, Fundación Ecológica Tropical, Fundación Ángeles de las Aguas Inc. and Asociación para el Desarrollo de Carrizal Comunidades Unidas en Defensa de la Sierra Federación de Juntas de Vecinos de SAJOMA inc. (FEJUDEVESA) submitted a submission to this Secretariat in which they asserted that the Dominican Republic is failing to effectively enforce its environmental legislation.
On May 17, 2022, a Submitter who requested their information to remain confidential, 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 they assert that the Republic of El Salvador is allegedly failing to enforce its environmental legislation effectively.
On Sunday July 11, 2021, Bienvenida Narrete Montilla, President of the Neighbor’s Council “El Chucho La Yuca”, 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), which asserts that the Dominican Republic is allegedly failing to enforce its environmental legislation effectively.
On Friday 9 July 2021, Julio Daniel Consuegra Fuentes, President of the Executive Board and Legal Representative of the Primero de Julio District Neighborhood Association, Guatemala, Guatemalan and member of the Vicalama Association for Ecological Development, filed an environmental submission with the Secretariat for Environmental Matters of the Dominican Republic, Central America United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), asserting that the Republic of Guatemala is allegedly failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws.
The submitter asserts that the Republic of Guatemala has failed to effectively enforce its environmental law resulting from the alleged pollution caused by the waste that is carried by Motagua River into the Gulf of Honduras and reaches the Honduran coastline due to the action of marine currents, located at Puerto Cortés municipality, Republic of Honduras.
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