When establishing protected wilderness areas (áreas silvestres protegidas), whatever their management category, the Executive Branch, through the Ministry of Environment and Energy (Ministerio del Ambiente y Energía), is empowered to include, within their limits, the private properties or parts of private properties necessary to fulfill the objectives indicated in this law and to implement them in accordance with the respective management plan or to create legal easements (servidumbres) for ecological protection and compliance with this law.
In the case of national parks, biological reserves, or state national wildlife refuges, the lands shall be acquired by purchase, expropriation, or both procedures, upon prior compensation. In the cases of forest reserves, protective zones, mixed wildlife refuges, and wetlands, the properties or their parts may also be purchased or submitted to the forestry regime. This subjection shall be registered in the Public Property Registry, as an affectation on the property, which shall be maintained for the time established in the management plan.
The private properties affected according to the provisions of this article, by being located in national parks, biological reserves, wildlife refuges, forest reserves, and protective zones, shall be comprised within the state protected areas only from the moment they have been legally paid for or Regime. In the case of forest reserves, protective zones, and wildlife refuges, and in the event that payment or expropriation has not been carried out and while it is being carried out, the areas shall be subject to an environmental planning plan that includes the environmental impact assessment (evaluación de impacto ambiental) and subsequently, to the management, recovery, and replenishment plan for the resources.
(Thus reformed the previous paragraph by Article 72, subsection c) of the Forestry Law (Ley Forestal), N° 7575 of February 13, 1996, which in turn was reformed by Article 114 of the Biodiversity Law, N° 7788 of April 30, 1998) The Executive Branch is empowered so that, through the Ministry of Environment and Energy (Ministerio del Ambiente y Energía), it may carry out the expropriations contemplated in this article, in accordance with the provisions of the Expropriations Law No. 7495, of May 3, 1995.