A report by the City Audit (AGCBA, by its acronym in Spanish) states that the building where the Environmental Control Office operates, presents "serious deficiencies" that cause "unhealthy working conditions."

Specifically, the watchdog said that the administrative headquarters of the agency, on the second floor of 2517 Ortiz de Ocampo, does not have adequate physical space to ensure "minimal" normal employee performance. "At peak hours, the report says, there are 150 people in a place of 180 square meters." Moreover, they do not have emergency exits or gas. Due to the leaks, Metrogas suspended their service.

The AGCBA approved its work in May of this year on data collected during 2005. In 2008, the Directorate presented a release in which it was held that "it was not possible to remedy" the lack of an emergency exit, because the building is not its property. At that time, they had not made arrangements for gas installations and in the office they continued to use gas cylinder: "It's a structural problem," argued the report.

Other irregularities the Audit highlighted were the lack of a telephone exchange, idle equipment, inadequate computer system, poor recording and archiving activities of the agency, and "weak internal control."

After operating under the orbit of the Secretariat for Community Control -within the Security Secretariat and the Ministry of Government, among other areas, in 2007 it happened to be the Directorate Environmental Protection Agency, an autonomous agency under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Environment and Public City Space.

Among its main functions it includes the monitoring of air quality and ambient noise, physical, chemical and biological analyzes of recreational pools, ornamental and of the consumption of government offices, studies in sandboxes, parks and squares, pest and rodent control.

The Audit added that, beyond the building shortcomings, the agency "failed to meet analysis at sandboxes" that were part of its program 42, environmental quality laboratory. In the discharge of 2008, the Department argued that the studies were "discontinued" because they were an "inefficient tool for the required control." And, regarding program 43, dedicated to the control of pollution of the environment, the report added that "the control of generation, handling, storage, transport and disposal of pathogenic, hazardous waste and liquid effluents industrial was not carried out.” Also, “vehicles that exceed the maximum permitted levels of greenhouse gas emissions were not sanctioned.”