Guidelines For The Comprehensive Managament Of Special Handling Wastes Within The Hydrocarbon Sector Are Established

On 2 May 2018, the General Administrative Dispositions by means of which the guidelines for the comprehensive management of special handling wastes (RME for its acronym in Spanish), issued by the National Agency of Industrial Safety and Environmental Protection of the Hydrocarbon Sector (ASEA for its acronym in Spanish), were published in the Federal Official Gazette, same that entered into force on 3 May 2018, (herein after the "Guidelines").

Consequently, all State productive companies, individuals and legal entities, within the public, social and private sectors, carrying out activities in the hydrocarbon sector and generating RME will have to observer and comply with the Guidelines. ASEA will be the authority responsible to police the compliance of the Guidelines and to interpret them in the administrative sphere.