Judicial control of the environment. "Mendoza, Beatríz Silvia et al v/Estado Nacional y otros s/damages and losses (Damages derivated from the environmental contamination of the Matanza/Riachuelo river. Suprem Justice Court of the Nation.

Abstract

The Supreme Justice Court of the Nation through the judgment of 2008”Mendoza, Beatriz Silvia y otros c/ Estado Nacional y otros s/ daños y perjuicios (daños derivados de la contaminación ambiental del Río Matanza-Riachuelo)” proposes for the first time a public policy plan on environmental sanitation, in our case under study that of the water basin Matanza-Riachuelo. To this end, it orders the defendant governments - national, provincial and autonomous city of Buenos Aires  - to its healthy value in conjunction with the Federal Council for the Environment (COFEMA), having to present a plan to clean up the basin , also to the companies of the place so that they present public information related to their productive processes, establishing a system of public hearings for citizen participation in it. This is how this institutional model of how to clean up the Matanza-Riachuelo watershed is structured, called “Comprehensive Environmental Sanitation Plan”(CESP) To control compliance with the same, a collegiate body was created, made up of neighborhood and environmental organizations - Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Greenpeace, Cels, the La Boca Neighbors Commission and the Civil Association for Human Rights-  under the presidency of the Office of the National Ombudsman.It is the first sentence that is devoted to forming an environmental sanitation plan and it  have  ultimate control.