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Land Law
This Act lays down basic provisions on land tenure, both rural and urban. All land in Viet Nam is the property of the State, but individual and corporate users, both domestic and foreign, can obtain from the State usufructuary rights under lease-type contractual arrangements (art. 1). Long-term leases, in particular, of cropland are made for twenty years for annual crops and aquaculture, and for fifty years for perennial crops, both terms being renewable on expiry (art. 20).
Environmental Protection Law Implementation Guidelines (Decree 175/1994)
This text contains rules to implement the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act recently approved by the National Assembly.
Sri Lanka Environment Outlook 2009
The Sri Lanka: Environment Outlook 2009 is one of the outputs of UNEP’s capacity building programme working in partnership with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. The report has been prepared through a consultative process with inputs from many national and local agencies and experts. This report has analysed the six priority environmental sectors stated in the National Environmental Policy using the Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact- Response (DPSIR) analytical framework.
Constitution of Sri Lanka
The constitution provides for provincial councils. The Eighteenth Amendment ‰enacted in September 2010 removed the limit on the number of terms a president may serve, previously set at two.
Environment Conservation Levy Act (2008)
The purpose of this Act is to ensure environment conservation by imposing a levy on specified items, owned by individuals or businesses, which are considered harmful to the environment.The Act empowers the Central Environmental Authority to enable the process of recovering this levy.
Disaster Management Act (2005)
The purpose of this Act is to protect human life and the environment of Sri Lanka from the consequences of natural disasters by preparing national policies and plans and by appointing centrally coordinated committees and institutions to give effect to such policies and plans. The Act provides for the establishment of a National Council for Disaster Management and defines its internal composition. Functions of the Council include: formulate a national policy and program on the management of disasters; prepare and formulate a National Disaster Management Plan and a National Emergency Operation Plan; facilitate emergency response, recovery, relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction; and direct, coordinate and monitor the activities of the Disaster Management Centre established under this Act.
Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act
An Act to repeal and re-enact with amendments the Endangered Species (Import and Export)Act (Chapter 92A of the 2000 Revised Edition) so as to give effect to the Convention on International Trade inEndangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora by controlling the importation, exportation, re-exportation and introduction from the sea of certain animals and plants, and parts and derivatives of such animals and plants, and for matters connected therewith.
Environmental (Public Health Act)
An Act to consolidate the law relating to environmental public health and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Regulations on the Administration of Construction Project Environmental Protection
These Regulations are formulated with a view to preventing construction projects from generating new pollution and damaging the ecological environment.
Administrative Regulation on Levy and Use of Pollutant Discharge Fee - Chinese
Administrative Regulation on Levy and Use of Pollutant Discharge Fee - Chinese