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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Armenia, Western Asia, Asia

    This Law is to set out the role of local self-government and to regulate relations between the State authorities and local self-government bodies. Local self-government bodies shall be responsible for the management of community’s property and financial resources. A community is a legal entity and disposes its property independently. This Act shall be applicable to city and rural communities. The competence of local self-government shall include: (a) land zoning and land use planning; (b) urban development and maintenance of the objects of cultural heritage.

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    Закон Грузии «О консервации почв, восстановлении и улучшении их плодородия».

    Legislation
    Georgia, Asia, Western Asia

    This Law regulates the following issues: (a) conservation, rehabilitation of soil and improvement of soil fertility, prevention of soil erosion due flooding, landslide, soil pollution, siltation, waterlogging, and anthropogenic impact; (b) rehabilitation, improvement of soil and rational land tenure of low productive land; and (c) establishment of maximum allowable limits of contents of hazardous substances in soil, provisions related to application of pesticides and agrochemicals.

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    Закон Грузии О статусе охраняемых территорий.

    Legislation
    Georgia, Asia, Western Asia

    This Law regulates legal issues related to status, land area, boundaries and particulars of management and functioning of protected areas. It is related to protected areas that include unique natural ecosystems containing land area, forested areas, water areas and objects of historical and cultural heritage. It contains mapping of the boundaries of various protected areas and zoning of their territory.

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Georgia, Asia, Western Asia

    This Law establishes exclusive plenary powers of the self-government bodies in the following areas: (a) management and disposal of public land resources; (b) land use planning; (c) management of local public forest and water resources; and (d) management of local water supply, drainage and sewerage systems (art. 16). The local self-governing representative bodies (Sakrebulo) shall have plenary powers in the following areas: (a) establishment of management rules and regulations applicable to local public land, forest and water resources; and (b) land use planning (art. 22).

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    Toprak Koruma ve Arazi Kullanımı Kanunu.

    Legislation
    Turkey, Western Asia, Asia

    This Law sets forth the rules and principles for determining land and soil resources and their classification, preparing land utilization plans, preventing non-purpose utilization, and defining the tasks and obligations to ensure land and soil preservation. Soil Preservation Boards are established in each province to examine, assess and monitor the activities related to the preservation, development and productive utilization of lands. Lands are classified as absolute farming lands, special crop lands, cultivated farming lands and marginal farming lands.

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    Ο περί Ελέγχου της Ρύπανσης των Νερών και του Εδάφους Νόμος του 2002 (N. 106(I)/2002).

    Legislation
    Cyprus, Western Asia

    In the process of harmonizing the Cypriot legislation with the environmental legislative framework of the European Union, this law sets forth the basic provisions for the protection of water resources and soil against polution. The law aims at protecting surface and underground waters and soil from human and industrial polluting activities and at controlling the disposal of liquid and solid industrial waste.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Armenia, Western Asia, Asia

    Land Code defines the basic directions of State regulatory system improvement concerning land relations, development of various organizational and legal forms of land economy, fertility of land, improvement of land use efficiency, protection and improvement of the environment – favourable for human life and health, and the legal framework concerning the protection of the land rights. Ownership, use and disposition of land must not damage the environment, security and defensibility of the State; must not violate rights and legally defined interests of citizens and other entities.

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    Ο περί της Ολοκληρωμένης Πρόληψης και Ελέγχου της Ρύπανσης, Νόμος του 2003 (Ν. 56(Ι)/2003).

    Legislation
    Cyprus, Western Asia

    The purpose of this Law is the prevention and control of pollution caused by large industrial plants. The Law provides for measures to prevent pollution; when preventing is not possible, the Law aims at reducing emissions to air, water and soil and prescribes waste management measures, as well as the rational use of natural resources and energy to achieve a high level of environmental protection.

  9. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Turkey, Western Asia, Asia

    Articles 6, 9, 14, 30 have either been amended or new paragraphs have been added. The present Law also amends new articles of the Village Law of 1924, the Law on Natural Disasters 1959, and the Tourism Incentives Act of 1982. The formation of the technical teams is re-defined. The in-forest pastures and grazelands are re-defined by a committee set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and cannot be used for any other purposes unless their allocation purposes are modified.

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