Company: AKO-B
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000473
Chunk: 78

Company: ANDINA BOTTLING CO INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 78
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 assure you, however, that additional regulations will not be enacted in the future, and that such restrictions would not have a material adverse effect on our results or operations. The operation in Brazil as that of Chile counts with all certifications mentioned in terms of Quality, Environment and Occupational Health and Safety and those associated with Food Safety and Best Practices in Food Processing.
Argentina
The Argentine Constitution, as amended in 1994, allows any individual who believes a third party may be damaging the environment to initiate an action against it. No action of this nature has been initiated against EDASA, but we cannot ensure that it will not be initiated in the future. Though provincial governments have primary regulatory authority over environmental matters, municipal and federal authorities also have authority competent to enact decrees and laws on environmental issues. Thus, municipalities can set policy on local environmental matters, such as waste management, while the federal government regulates inter-province environmental issues, such as transport of hazardous waste or environmental matters covered by international treaties.

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In 2002, the National Congress approved federal Law N° 25,612, Comprehensive Management of Industrial Residues and Service Activities (Gestión Integral de Residuos Industriales y de Actividades de Servicios) and Law N° 25,675, General Environmental Law (Ley General del Ambiente) establishing minimum guidelines for the protection of the sustainable environmental management and the protection of biodiversity, applicable throughout Argentina. The law establishes the purposes, principles and instruments of the national environmental policy, the concept of “minimum guidelines,” the judicial purview and the rules governing environmental education and information, citizens’ participation and self-management, among other provisions.
Provincial governments within the Argentine territory have enacted laws establishing a framework for the preservation of the environment. Provincial laws that are applicable to industrial facilities at EDASA, among others are Law N° 7,343 of the Province of Córdoba and its supplemental N° 10,208 since 2014, Law N° 11,459 of the Province of Buenos Aires Environmental Code N° 5,439 of the Chubut province and Law Nº 5,961 of the Province of Mendoza. These laws contain principles on environmental policy and management, as well as rules on environmental impact assessment. They also give certain agencies jurisdiction over environmental issues.
Almost all provinces as well as many municipalities have established rules regarding the use of water, the sewage system and the disposal of liquids into underground flows of water or rivers. There are currently no claims pending against ED