1. Complaints (denuncias) sent through the Integrated System for Processing and Attention of Environmental Complaints (SITADA), that do not have the respective report from the competent entity determining the existence of the alleged environmental damage caused, shall be returned to that unit for compliance with said requirement. The mentioned return shall be carried out, using the SITADA, by the coordinating user or resolving user of the Administrative Environmental Tribunal, registered in the system.
2. When the complaint (denuncia) refers to infractions and/or municipal permits, it shall be forwarded to the competent Municipality for its respective processing. Likewise, the complaint shall be forwarded to the Municipality of the jurisdiction when it refers to constructions or activities that do not have municipal permits such as earthworks (movimiento de tierra), for its respective sanction, as well as for the process of regularization of the case, when applicable.
3. When the complaint corresponds to an infraction of a violation of and non-compliance with environmental feasibility (viabilidad ambiental) and has a file being processed at the National Environmental Technical Secretariat (SETENA), it shall be forwarded to said Secretariat for its respective processing. Likewise, it shall be forwarded to SETENA when the project, work, or activity has environmental feasibility (viabilidad ambiental), and a possible non-compliance with environmental commitments, or with the regulations subject to the competence of SETENA, is reported.
4. When complaints correspond to minor and serious infractions regulated in the Law for Integrated Waste Management, they shall be forwarded to the Municipality of the respective jurisdiction.
5. Any complaint that does not correspond to the competencies of this Tribunal shall be entered into the SITADA, by the coordinating user or resolving user of the Administrative Environmental Tribunal, for its corresponding processing.
Excepted from the application of this article are files (expedientes) that have the opening of the ordinary administrative procedure and are in the stage of issuing the final Act (Acto final), which shall be processed by this Tribunal until their completion.
(Thus added by article 2 of Executive Decree No. 43795 of September 21, 2022)