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DS 009-2025-EM is the implementing regulation for Ley 32213 (the December 2024 statute that pushed Peru's small-scale and artisanal mining (MAPE) formalisation deadline back from 31 Dec 2024 to 30 Jun 2025 with a six-month extension option). The decree does three operative things:
1. Reaffirms MINEM as rector authority over the formalisation process — historically the function had been progressively delegated to regional governments (gobiernos regionales) under 2010s-era decrees, with documented capture and political-cycle abuse of REINFO as an electoral inscription tool. The regulation pulls competency back to the central ministry. 2. Operationalises the deadline extension and exclusion grounds. Sets administrative procedure for closure of the REINFO and adds stricter rules on modifying declared mining rights and the area under formalisation, with new exclusion grounds (e.g. inscription in restricted/protected zones, lapsed substantive requirements). 3. Creates SIPMMA — Sistema Interoperable de Pequeña Minería y Minería Artesanal — as the state interoperable traceability layer for minerals, explosives, chemical inputs (mercury, cyanide, diesel, ANFO precursors) and controlled products in the MAPE sector. SIPMMA is intended to integrate with SUNAT customs, SUCAMEC explosives controls, and the OEFA environmental enforcer.
The original Article 10 of the regulation also created a controversial "REINFO hereditario" — a succession path letting heirs inherit a deceased holder's REINFO inscription. That provision drew immediate criticism from anti-illegal-mining NGOs (CooperAcción), foreign observers, and the formalised mining gremios as a backdoor for indefinite registry survival, and was struck two weeks later by DS 010-2025-EM (1 Jun 2025).
operational, will condition export-eligibility for tens of thousands of tonnes of artisanal/small-scale gold and copper concentrate output by formalisation status. Refiners and downstream buyers importing Peruvian MAPE-origin material will need to reconcile SIPMMA registry data with LBMA / RJC / EU CRMA conflict-minerals due-diligence regimes.
Critical Minerals MoU explicitly cites Peru's formalisation regime as a condition for upgraded cooperation. Domestic implementation speed of SIPMMA is now the gating variable for downstream offtake agreements under that framework.
to MINEM redirects formalisation fees, environmental-compliance revenue and the political patronage of REINFO management away from regional administrations — likely friction during the 2026 electoral cycle.
layer is functionally an upstream non-tariff perimeter on inputs. Importers (notably Chilean and Mexican mercury supply chains) will see new documentary requirements once the system is live.
vehicle but no operational date is published. A follow-up ministerial resolution is required for the system to be enforceable at customs.
Jun 2025 — a precedent-setting decision given the regime has been rolled forward repeatedly since 2012.
reassertion in the Tribunal Constitucional.
REINFO holders, of whom only a single-digit-thousand percentage have actually completed formalisation in the prior 12 years of the regime.