This Regional Law establishes legal grounds in the sphere of land reclamation ensuring efficient land tenure and protection of drained land. The scope of land reclamation shall be to improve productivity and sustainability of agriculture, stable agricultural production on the basis of conservation and improvement of soil fertility and involvement of unused and low-productive land in agricultural production. Land reclamation shall be classified as follows: (a) hydrotechnical amelioration; (b) agroforestry; (c) land clearance operations; and (d) chemical amelioration.

These provisions concern the rearrangement and promote the setting up of the Regole, including those regulated under Regional Act No. 48 of 1975. This Act recognizes the Regole as mountain organizations aimed at the environmental protection and economic development of mountain territories.

Implements: Regional Act No. 48 on the management of the patrimony of the Regole d’Ampezzo. (1975-05-03)

The purpose of this Law is the determination, delimitation, allocation of areas such as ranges, pastures, wintersheds (winter range lands) or highlands to juridical entities like villages or municipalities and making use of them in a manner abiding by the rules, increasing or sustaining productivity through maintenance and improvement, controlling that use continuously, protecting them and changing their purpose of use when necessary. The determination, delimitation and allocation of ranges, highlands and wintersheds are undertaken by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

The objective of this Law is giving in ownership agricultural lands, forests, pastures and meadows (art. 1). In the implementation of this Law are included all the lands within the Republic of Albania out of the border lines, which are treated as agricultural lands according to Law No. 7501 of 19 July 1991, on the Land, independently of their origin. Pastures, meadows, forests and forest lands which are certified with official documents as having been private property are returned to the ex-owners and their legal heirs according to the cadastral statement of 1 August 1991.

This Act regulates interventions in matter of better exploitation of the soil, of the environment and of agri-sylvipastoral resources. For this purpose there shall be a rational selvicultural management, the improvement of biological balances and the prevention of hydrogeological disasters.

This Act regulates forestry activity. It consists of 14 Chapters specifying authorized activities to be performed by public and private entities in order to protect national forests. It also establishes national administration competencies and actions to be carried out by the Government of Cape Verde for managing forestry resources. Chapter I defines all sectors relative to forestry activity (i.e.

La Ley consta de 6 títulos y 67 artículos. INDICE: Disposiciones generales (I); Organización institucional (II); Manejo y conservación de suelos (III); Participación de los particulares (IV); Acciones punibles (V); Disposiciones finales (VI).La presente Ley tiene como fin fundamental proteger, conservar y mejorar los suelos en gestión integrada y sostenible con los demás recursos naturales, mediante el fomento y la planificación ambiental adecuada (art. 1º).

This Regional Act sets out the legislative framework for the definition of lands destined to public uses, with a view to promoting the development of rural areas and ensuring environmental protection. The Regional Executive is in charge of the delimitation and registration of lands for public use, according to the procedure regulated under articles 4 and 5.

This Regional Act sets out the legislative framework governing the public use and management of public lands for agro-forestry and silvopastoralism purposes. These provisions specify the administrative functions that pertain to the Regional Executive and the Mountain and Forest Economy Service in this matter.

The present Act makes arrangements relating to lands in Forest Areas. Such lands shall be sold by the appropriate authority to peasants who have "settled down there and who have been cultivating the lands for at least one year past..." (art. 4(1)). Land left over after sale and distribution as described above shall be sold or distributed in the prescribed manner. Further provisions concern the registration of lands, the modalities for the payment of the price of the land by the allottee and enforcement measures.

The amendments concern the need for authorization from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Agriculture for the conversion of forest and valley land into the following: 1. making farmland, orchard, rangeland, artificial forests, forage land, livestock institutions, aquatic breeding institutions, as well as the use for mine exploting and exploration (in nothern Iran); and 2. establishment of factories, townships, schools, training institutions, sport clubs, etc.

This Act lays down the basic principles of forest management and conservation, makes provision for the administration of forestry (Chap. I), the survey and classification of lands for purposes of forestry (Chap. II), and the use of forest resources (Chap. III).Basic policy principles are outlined in section 2. Section 3 contains definitions.