Supreme Court of Justice declares the constitutionality of the Organic Mining Act

Published at: 13/04/2026 08:23 PM

The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice declared the constitutionality of the organic nature conferred on the “Organic Mining Law”, in accordance with the provisions of article 203 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and in article 25.14 of the Organic Law of the Supreme Court.

“This Supreme Court of Justice, in the Constitutional Chamber, administering justice in the name of the Republic by authority of the law, in accordance with the provisions of article 203 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in accordance with article 25, paragraph 14, of the Organic Law of the Supreme Court of Justice, declares the constitutionality of the organic character conferred on the “Organic Law of Mines”, sanctioned by the National Assembly in regular session of April 9, 2026", stressed the Supreme Court in a ruling published on its website.

In this regard, it emphasizes that “the regulations crystallize the mandate of article 302 of the Constitution, which reserves strategic activities to the State, for reasons of convenience and national interest. The law deploys this power by granting the Executive the power to declare minerals as strategic, create Security Zones, reserve the management of radioactive minerals and enshrine the priority right of the Central Bank of Venezuela over gold ore, absolutely guaranteeing economic sovereignty and the integrity of the Nation. This is complemented, from a perspective of productive democratization, by the legal formalization of artisanal mining and the promotion of mining brigades, materializing the constitutional right to work, to free economic association and to citizen participation in productive processes”.

Mazo News Team