Land & Climate Change

An Act to provide for the sustainable use of land and natural resources on it.The text of Part I consists of 18 sections divided into 7 Chapters: Purposes of the Act (I); Application sphere of the Act (II); Land use authorities in municipalities and counties (III); Protection of cultivation and arable land (IV); Partition of agricultural land (V); Expropriation and valuation (VI); Miscellaneous

This Act consists of 15 Parts divided into 433 sections, and contains 12 Schedules. The overall purpose of this Act is to promote the sustainable management of natural and physical resources (sect.

The purpose of this Act is to establish the fundamental objectives and rules of regional development and land use planning, and to define the institutional system therefor.

The Government may declare any area as a protected watershed area and the Watershed Conservation Officer may take within the area the measures established by the present Act for the purpose of soil and watershed conservation (e.g.

This Act provides for the management of public gardens, i.e. any land vested in the Commissioner of Lands, and designated by him or any entity acting on his behalf for use as public garden. It also prohibits various activities in such gardens and provides for seizure and impounding of stray animals.

Por la presente Ley se declara al territorio indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure - TIPNIS patrimonio sociocultural y natural, zona de preservación ecológica, reproducción histórica y hábitat de los pueblos indígenas Chimán, Yuracaré y Mojeño-trinitario, cuya protección y conservación son de interés primordial del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia.

This Act amends various provisions of the Environmental Management and Conservation and changes its name to Environmental Protection and Conservation Act.

Article 14 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Land parcels within the boundaries containing objects of cultural heritage of regional significance shall be classifies as protected areas by decision of the Regional Administration that establishes the modalities of land tenure and protection thereof”.

Article 2 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Protected areas of regional and local significance shall be taken into consideration in the process of elaboration of territorial planning complex schemes, land survey and regional land-use planning”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 88-OZ “On protected areas”. (2009-05-14)

The present Law lays down provisions relating to the reorganization of field and forestry land. The Law contains at the outset a definition clause relating to various terms employed therein, such as for example, “field”, “forest”, “land owner”, “beneficiary”, “private path”, “right of entry”.

This Decree Law sets forth the duties and responsibilities of the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning.

The present Law introduces some amendments to the IPPC Hazardous Installation Law (LGBl. No. 20/2001). In particular, the Law rewords the title of the afore-mentioned Law as follows: “Law on obligations of operators to protect the environment”. Furthermore, the Law adds Part 4 on Environmental liability, and article 1 on Transitional provisions concerning environmental liability.