Article 414 Federal Criminal Code

A penalty of one to nine years of imprisonment and from three hundred to three thousand days fine shall be imposed on anyone who unlawfully, or without applying the prevention or security measures, carries out activities of production, storage, traffic, import or export, transport, abandonment, disposal, discharge, or carries out any other activity with substances considered hazardous by their corrosive, reactive, explosive, toxic, flammable, radioactive or other analogous characteristics, orders or authorizes it, that causes harm to natural resources, to flora, to fauna, to ecosystems, to the quality of water, to the soil, to the subsoil or to the environment.

The same penalty shall be applied to anyone who unlawfully carries out the conduct with the substances set forth in the preceding paragraph, or with substances that deplete the ozone layer and causes a risk of harm to natural resources, to flora, to fauna, to ecosystems, to the quality of water or to the environment.

In the case that the activities referred to in the preceding paragraphs are carried out in a protected natural area, the imprisonment penalty shall be increased by up to three years and the economic penalty by up to one thousand days fine, except for the activities carried out with substances that deplete the ozone layer.

When the conduct referred to in the first and second paragraphs of this article is carried out in urban zones with used oils or substances that deplete the ozone layer in quantities that do not exceed 200 liters, or with waste considered hazardous by their biological-infectious characteristics, up to one half of the penalty provided in this article shall be applied, unless it involves repeated conduct with amounts lower than those indicated when they exceed said amount.