Land & Climate Change

The Protection of Water Against Agricultural Nitrate Pollution (Scotland) Regulations 1996 transpose for Scotland the requirements of Council Directive 91/676/EC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources. The objective of the Directive is to ensure that measures are taken to reduce and prevent nitrate pollution from agricultural sources.

These Regulations concern the fees to be paid to the Malta Environment and Planning Authority in respect of applications for permission to carry out development in the areas specified in the Schedule, such as waste disposal, land reclamation and livestock farm buildings.

This Act, consisting of three Parts completed by six Schedules, transfers certain State forest and Crown lands to the national park estate, makes provision with respect to special areas under the Crown Lands Act 1989 and the Forestry Act 1916 and provides for land transfers, ancillary and special provisions.

This Act, consisting of 18 sections and completed by ten Schedules, aims at transferring to the national park estate certain river red gum State forest lands in the Riverina area; enabling the transfer to Aboriginal ownership and conservation of certain other State forest lands in the Riverina area; enabling forestry operations to continue on land in the Riverina area remaining as State forest;

This Act, consisting of 19 sections divided into four Parts and completed by nine Schedules, aims at transferring certain State forest lands in the South-Western area to the national park estate; to make provisions with respect to forestry operations in that area; enabling the transfer to Aboriginal ownership and conservation of certain other State forest lands; specifying lands subject to Abor

This Ordinance establishes the National Trust as a body corporate. The Trust shall safeguard the cultural, historical and natural heritage of the Turks and Caicos Islands through the preservation of areas, sites, buildings, structures and objects of cultural, historical or natural significance. It may, among other things, engage in programmes to preserve and propagate wildlife.

This Regional Law transfers to local government of rural areas the following issues: (a) participation in prevention of natural and technological disasters and mitigation of the consequences thereof; (b) conservation, management and promotion of the objects of historical and cultural heritage; and (c) collection and transportation of solid domestic waste.

Supreme Soviet, for the purpose of speeding-up privatisation, decrees that the objects included into the Annex 1 belong to exclusively to federal property.

This Act: grants power to the President of South Africa to establish lake areas by Proclamation; establishes the Lake Areas Development Board for purposes of management of lake areas established under this Act; defines regulation-making powers of the Minister; and provides for other matters relative to the control and management of lake areas and the Board.The object of the Board shall be to co

This Decree states that carrying out state cadastre of protected areas and objects aims at a) strengthening state control and protecting natural reserve fund, b) preparing plans for economic and social development, land management, urban planning and environmental expertise, and c) data collection and systematization, analysis of the efficiency of the current situation and provide information f

The Regulation of the Minister of Environment, which is composed of twelve paragraphs and nine Annexes, specifies the conditions for the measurement of emissions into water, land and air.

This Decision approves the master plan on the socio-economic development of Thua Thien-Hue province.The master plan aims at building the province into a centrally run city and a big and typical cultural, tourist, scientific-technological, intensive healthcare, high quality multi-discipline education-training centre of the whole country.The main objectives of the plan include: development of agr