SEA profile
Updated to: 03 September 2019
Download as PDFEstablishing context
Implementing SEA
Informing decision making
Follow-up
SEA practice
Background information
Legal framework
Enabling law
Law of Protection and Improvement of the Environment (no.68-86, 1986), updated in 1993.
National detailed regulation
The Regulation on Environmental Evaluation, control and monitoring (2016) provides some provisions for SEA, but is not detailed regarding internationalisation of SEA.
Scope of application
SEA is applied to plans and programmes.
SEA approach
The SEA approach is based on the ESIA procedure
Article 13, Regulation 137-2016
Institutional setting
Central SEA authority
National Environmental Authority is the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources
Initiator of the SEA
The SEA must be prepared by the institution in charge of the initiative, with advice of an environmental service provider registered with MARN.
Definitions section of 137-2016.
Contact
Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN)
Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
7 avenida 03-67, zona 13, Ciudad Guatemala
Tel: (502) 2423-0500
Website: www.marn.gob.gt
General Directory of Environmental Management and Natural Resources
Tel: (502) 2423-0500 or 2202
E-mail: gambiental@marn.gob.gt