The FAO Legal Office provides in-house counsel in accordance with the Basic Texts of the Organization, gives legal advisory services to FAO members, assists in the formulation of treaties on food and agriculture, for which the Director-General acts as Depositary, publishes legal studies and maintains a database (FAOLEX) of national legislation and international agreements concerning food and agriculture (including fisheries, forestry and water).
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Displaying 3671 - 3675 of 15550Government Lands Act (Cap. 280).
This Act: confers powers upon the President of Kenya to grant title or other rights in Government lands; provides for the appointment of a Commissioner of Lands and such other officers as may be necessary for the administration of this Act; and defines procedures and other requirements such as registration in respect to grant of title or other rights in Government land.The Act consists of 146 sections divided into 11 Parts.The President may make grants or dispositions of any estates, interests or rights in or over unalienated Government land in accordance with section 3.
Regional Law No. 615-KZ “On composition, elaboration and modification of land-use planning scheme”.
This Regional Law determines composition, elaboration and modification of the regional land-use planning scheme. Land-use planning project shall include regulations on territorial planning and mapping of objects projected for location, description and characteristics of land areas and names of urban, municipal districts and inhabited areas. Monitoring of land-use planning schemes shall include state of environment and environmental protection arrangements.
Regional Law No. 742-KZ “On indigenous peoples of the Far East of the Russian Federation”.
This Regional Law establishes plenary powers of the regional state bodies in the sphere of protection of traditional habitats, traditional way of life, economic activities and traditional community management of indigenous peoples and also sets forth the types of state support thereto. The scope of this Regional Law shall be to improve living standards of indigenous peoples. Regional Administration shall be authorized to impose use restrictions on economic activities in the areas of traditional living of small indigenous ethnic communities.
Regional Law No. 565-PK “On protected areas”.
This Regional Law classifies regional protected areas as follows: (a) natural parks; (b) state nature reserves; (c) nature monuments; (d) dendrological parks and botanical gardens; (e) protected landscapes; (f) protected nurseries; and (g) historical and natural complexes and areas. Cultural memorial parks and ecological parks can also be set up on the regional territory. The presence and location of protected areas shall be taken into consideration in the process of elaboration of land-use planning schemes.
Regulation (EC) No. 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the establishment of a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register and amending Council Directives 91/689/EEC and 96/61/EC.
This Regulation was adopted on the basis of the UNECE Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers, signed by the European Community on 21 May 2003. With a view to facilitating public participation in environmental decision-making, it establishes an integrated pollutant release and transfer register at Community level in the form of a publicly accessible electronic database.