ABSTRACTED FROM THE OBJECTIVES SECTION: These Voluntary Guidelines seek to improve governance of tenure of land*, fisheries and forests. They seek to do so for the benefit of all, with an emphasis on vulnerable and marginalized people, with the goals of food security and progressive realization of the right to adequate food, poverty eradication, sustainable livelihoods, social stability, housing security, rural development, environmental protection and sustainable social and economic development.

This report originally prepared in 2002 and revised in 2012 covers three topics. The main body of the report consists of an overview of the existing legal and institutional frameworks relevant to agricultural land use in countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) that were studied. The overview is based primarily on the six country reports prepared in 2002 by the National Legal Consultants for Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St.

This paper starts from the assumption that the process of reform is as important as the content of the reform. Many excellent land policies, laws and technical reforms have been developed, yet, in many cases, implementation has slipped, stalled or has even been reversed. The paper argues that an understanding of land issues and the reform process from a governance and political economy perspective offers insights that can not only improve the design of reforms, but can also offer tools to support implementation.

This Act, among other things, recognizes the Minerals Management Board as established by section 214 of the Constitution and provides rules relative to exploration and exploitation of minerals in Swaziland. The Act defines functions and powers of the Board, establishes an office of the Commissioner of Mines and defines functions of the Commissioner of Mines. A distinction is made between small-scale and large-scale operations for the purposes of this Act.

This Act makes provision for land use planning and regulates the subdivision of land.

This Act makes provision with respect to exploration for and exploitation of mineral resources, underground waters, geothermal deposits and related matters. It also empowers the Minister to regulate radioactive minerals.The Minister of Lands, Mines and Energy shall be the main administrative authority for purposes of this Act. The Act establishes a Minerals Technical Committee and a Mineral Development Fund.The Act sets out various mineral rights and the conditions at which they can be obtained.

This Regional Law regulates relations in the sphere of organization, protection and management of protected areas of regional and local significance.

La presente Ley tiene por objeto la protección del suelo de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, previniendo la alteración de sus características químicas derivada de acciones de origen antrópico.

This Law aims at ensuring the sustainable development of the territory through the rational use of land and natural resources; assessing the actual and future potential of the territory development on a local and national level by balancing natural resources with economic demand and public and private interests.

This Regional Law establishes the composition of land-use planning documentation that must contain mapping of the territory, copy of decision of land expropriation (including bail out), land reservation for public and municipal needs, mapping of the boundaries of land servitude, and project documentation containing graphic maps.

Amended by: Regional Law No. 1220-ZZK amending Regional Law No. 113-ZZK “On land-use planning”. (2015-07-21)

This Regional Law establishes the modalities of elaboration and submittal of land-use planning documentation by the competent bodies of local self-government. Decision-making related to land-use planning projects shall be made (or rejected) by the competent body within ten days from the date of submittal of land-use planning documentation.

Amended by: Regional Law No. 766-OZ amending Regional Law No. 290-OZ “On land-use planning documentation”. (2015-07-22)

The purpose of the present Act is the economic and expedient use of the soil; the protection and care of the environment and, in particular the conservation or reinstatement of the sustainable purity of the air, water and soil, as well as the avoidance of noise; the conservation or reinstatement of a healthy nature, the protection of the indigenous fauna and flora and their natural living spaces, of the cultural heritage and, finally, in particular that of housing and recreational areas.