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Displaying 15336 - 15340 of 15550State Great Khural of Mongolia Resolution No. 78 concerning some measures to implement the Land Law.
"The State Great Khural decrees to entrust the Government of Mongolia to undertake the following measures: (1) to renew within 1995 the Land Fund registration and classification of Mongolia; (2) to supply aimak, the capital city, soum and district Governors' Offices with personnel specialized in land organization, and train them in land management; (3) to elaborate within 1994 the draft law on Land Rent and submit it to the State Great Khural; (4) to approve and officialize procedures, instructions, certificates and other forms of documents required for implementing the Land Law; (5) to hav
Natural Resources Management (Financial Assistance) Act 1992.
The Act provides for funding and administrative arrangements relating to natural resources management, with the primary objective of facilitating an integrated approach to such management that is efficient, sustainable and equitable. Part 2 deals with financial assistance from the Commonwealth to a state or to "other persons" for projects relating to natural resource management, and sets forth the various requirements for the agreements which govern such assistance.
Ordonnance nº 93-015 fixant les principes d'orientation du Code rural.
La présente ordonnance fixe les principes qui gouvernent l'utilisation des terres, de l'eau et des forêts dans les zones rurales. Par mesure de principe, l'ordonnance prévoit que les droits qui s'exercent sur les ressources naturelles bénéficient d'une égale protection, qu'ils résultent de la coutume ou du droit écrit.
Lithosphere Code of the Republic of Armenia, 1992.
This Code provides for the management, use and preservation of the lithosphere, which is defined as that part of the crust of the earth under the topsoil. The ownership of the lithosphere is vested in the State. The vast majority of provisions of this Act deal with the regulation and licensing of mining and geological exploration activities within the lithosphere. All such use, however, must comply with the general obligation to protect the air, land, forests, water and other environmental resources against adverse impacts, and to restore land disturbed by such activities (art. 18).
Law about Nature Reserves, 1991.
This Law concerns the formation, organization, preservation and use of nature reserves. There are four types of reserves: (i) state conservancies, where most human interference is prohibited; (ii) national parks, where activities are somewhat less restricted and which are intended for recreational, historical, cultural and scientific purposes; (iii) state reserves, the characteristics of which are not specified; and (iv) natural monuments, which are natural objects of special scientific and historical cultural value.