Environmental Management Law (Ecuador)

In article 9, it promotes comprehensive participation between sectors with the purpose of issuing and applying technical standards, manuals and general parameters of environmental protection, applicable at the national level; the general regulatory regime applicable to the system of permits and licenses for potentially polluting activities, standards applicable to national plans and technical standards related to territorial planning. It is worth mentioning that the rules and regulations mentioned above seek to adopt preventive as well as control measures related to water quality.