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DECREE NO 172

THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR,

CONSIDERING:

I.-That the Constitution, in its article 117, states that it is the State's duty to protect natural resources and the diversity and integrity of the environment

to ensure sustainable development.

II. by Legislative Decree No. 8, dated May 28, 2015, published in

Official Journal No. 108, Tomo N ° 407, dated June 16, 2015, was set forth in Article 2, which by Agreement of the Supreme Court of Justice the Environmental Chamber of Second Instance and the Environmental Courts were to be created in the

Departments of Santa Ana and San Miguel, no later than December 31, 2015; and that the Supreme Court of Justice, through the Civil Room, or the dependencies it determines, would conduct the corresponding studies and analyses,

for the purpose of establishing and giving monitoring of the demand for services that will result in the application of the environmental jurisdiction, for which the Chamber Third of the Civil of the First Section of the Center and the Environmental Court based in San Salvador were to report to the mentioned Sala or designated dependency, every

three months.

III. Justice, in environmental matters, the Chamber

Third of the Civil of the First Section of the Center and the Environmental Court based in San Salvador, have had since the environmental jurisdiction was erected to date, according to the study and analysis performed by the same, little

demand in that jurisdiction; however, from their study, determined the importance of creating the above courts as soon as possible. Therefore, it is considered that the competence of, only, the aforementioned

Third Chamber of the Civil, until the entry into operation of the Environmental Chamber in the Second Instance based in San Salvador, should be extended.

IV. reason of the above, it establishes a period of one year for the creation of the Environmental Chamber in the Second Instance based in San Salvador, that is due on the thirties and one of December of two thousand sixteen, must be created

the Environmental Court In the case of the case of the case, the Commission may, in accordance with Article 3 (2) of the operation in conjunction with the San Miguel-based Environmental Court, the day one of January of two

1,sixteen.

BY TANTO,

in use of its Constitutional powers and on the initiative of the Supreme Court of Justice and of the Deputies Santiago Flores Alfaro, Ernesto Luis Muyshondt Garcia Prieto, Mario Antonio Ponce Lopez, Alberto Armando Romero Rodriguez, Jose Gabriel Murillo Duarte, and Martir Arnoldo Marin Villanueva.

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