ACM COLOMBIAN MINING SECTOR DEVELOPMENT 2018 2022 15 Information management and transparency Disclosure of the criteria considered for the selection of the PINES according to sector Creation of a platform of information system available for disclosure followup and control of the strategic projects Public access via web to the regulations and normative systems which allow to reduce the asymmetry in the access to information Facilitate a unied information mechanism regarding the requirements and procedures to develop the PINES projects Likewise the consolidation of the Geographic Information System that contains and allows further coordination with the SINA National Environmental System is proposed by means of Compliance with CONPES No 3585 Consolidation of the National Policy of Geographic Information and the Colombian Infrastructure of Spatial Data ICDE 2009 so that all the producing entities and users of geographic information will accept and comply what was proposed Consolidation of the GEODATABASE with corporate contribu tion to the environmental baseline obtained with the environmental impact studies EIA and its geodatabase headed by ANLA with information at a scale of no less than 125000 This interinstitutional and coordinated process if success ful could be the basis for the creation in a second stage of a single window for environmental and mining procedures in which as a good practice the comprehensive evaluation of projects is carried out with the compliance with the legal terms and offering further security to the communities about the decision that are made without the need for the projects to be previously classied as PINES by the Natio nal Government 32 Environmental Procedures In view of the high volume of procedures and its dispersion some improvements to the environmental system are propo sed such as The measurement and analysis of the normative impact that allows to consider the positive and negative effects of the normative proposals prior to its issuance as it is used in the RIA Regulatory Impact Analysis in the OECD countries evidencebased element for the formulation of policies The adoption of followup tools for the National Environ mental System SINA that guarantee the coordination articu lation and concurrence of all the entities that comprise it The development of elements that facilitate the exercise of the Ministry of Environment and sustainable Development as hierarchic superior to carry out the functions granted by the law and effectively links the entities that integrate the SINA with the purpose of constructing public policy guidelines of national nature with a view to the standardization of the assessment and processing of licenses and permits The incorporation of social economic and environmental studies before taking environmental decisions The strengthening of the generation of scientic information headed by the institutes more than in the management of the ministry and the democratization of the use thereof cannot guarantee the quality and relevance of the information when each stakeholder of SINA must produce its own information The strengthening of SIAC Environmental Information System of Colombia in such way that all the Colombian information contributed by the stakeholders and users of SINA is available there The implementation of indicators that allows the tracking of the investment of economic resources providing from the environmental obligations such as compensations and 1 Adjust the compensations manual for its unication and avoid in that way multiple charges with high discretion over the same area That the Ordinance Plan and Management of Watersheds POMCAS recognize the importance of projects of public use and social interest and in addition the reinforcement of the coordination spaces between the regional authorities and the sectoral ministries in order to reach further articulation between the environmental determinants the sectoral plans and the bets for regional development The process of subtraction of areas of forest reserve which is today performed at the Forest Direction of the Ministry of Environment which proposes to transfer the competence of the procedure to ANLA deserves a special mention since it is contrary to the nature of the Direction responsible for it jeopardizing the advance of the applications that do not have deadlines or true procedures