In a media briefing during an event, DENR Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga said the agency aims to reduce the time from six years to one to three years as it plans to digitalize most of its processes with a goal of attracting more investors to the Philippines and implement digitalization within this year.
THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources announced on Friday it is planning to cut the processing time of mining permits.'We are indeed in the process of digitalizing these permits and processes, and we hope to implement them and be online by this year,' said Yulo-Loyzaga.'We are going to be testing a few of the digitalized processing, in fact some of the permits that are in the priority the Environment Compliance Certificate projects,' she added.
'I think we are moving in the right direction as apart from digitalization, Secretary Loyzaga also suggested that permits be processed simultaneously rather than in sequence.... This initiative can really help improve the speed processing for permits,' he added.
To Cut Mining Permits Processing Time
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