The environmental label: regulation in the Cuban right

  • Alcides Antúnez Sánchez Universidad Continental
  • Elena Polo Maceiras
Keywords: Inspection, audit, ecologic consumers and responsible company

Abstract

The article shows the gaps within the Cuban legal arrangement in the concession of the environmental labels by Public Administration, gives in majority way to the forms of public management in the mercantile traffic sector. It was used for the method, types of research as: theoretical and legal, historical and logical, legal exegetical, comparative law, and analysis and synthesis. Concluding that Cuban’s businessman does not have yet a proper environmental culture, which examine the use of the certification of environmental label within ways of management, which allows them access to markets with more demand, inside and abroad of the nation; affecting in unfavorable way to obsolescence and heterogeneity of the company also to industry with over 50 years of exploitation; valid element for consumers, who also don’t have an appropriate environmental certification culture. The Comptroller of the Republic of Cuba, on the basis of the Council of State agreement from 2010, as in law N° 107 from 2009 establish from the same supreme body of control; does not establish an environmental certification from environmental audit. Cuban public administration continues pondering quality and not environmental certification, which enable to conform a company environmental friendly within them management ways in the XXI century. In contradiction with what is recognized in the doctrine and the foreign legislation regard to environmental label certification.

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Published
2016-03-31
How to Cite
Antúnez Sánchez, A., & Polo Maceiras, E. (2016). The environmental label: regulation in the Cuban right. Apuntes De Ciencia & Sociedad, 6(1). Retrieved from https://journals.continental.edu.pe/index.php/apuntes/article/view/362
Section
Artículos de investigación