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Royaume-Uni - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Règlement, Décret, Arrêté, Ordonnance

Local Government Superannuation (Scottish Environment Protection Agency) (Scotland) Regulations 1997 (No. 1143(S. 102)).

Adoption: 1997-04-02 | Date d'entrée en vigueur: 1997-04-28 | GBR-1997-R-54323

Makes provisions in relation to the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Scheme constituted under the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 1987 in connection with the establishment of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the transfer of staff to the Agency from the Civil Service.

Royaume-Uni - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Environment Act 1995 (Chapter 25).

Adoption: 1995-07-19 | GBR-1995-L-41476

Divided into 5 Parts and 24 Schedules. Part I establishes the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), and regulates their functions, powers, and duties. Part II addresses contaminated land and abandoned mines. Part III relates to National Parks, Part IV to air quality, and Part V contains miscellaneous provisions relating to, inter alia, national waste strategy, fisheries, evidence collection in pollution offences, and mineral planning. Amends the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Royaume-Uni - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Règlement, Décret, Arrêté, Ordonnance

Environment and Safety Information (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. No. 3159 (N.I. 14) of 1993)

Adoption: 1993-12-16 | Date d'entrée en vigueur: 1994-06-17 | GBR-1993-R-35706

Establishes public registers of certain notices served concerning health, safety and environmental protection.

Royaume-Uni - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Environment and Safety Information Act 1988 (Chapter 30)

Adoption: 1988-07-29 | Date d'entrée en vigueur: 1989-04-01 | GBR-1988-L-6567

Establishes public registers of certain notices served concerning health, safety and environmental protection.

Royaume-Uni - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) (Tuvalu) Order, 1975 (CAP 48:30). -

Adoption: 1975 | INT-1975-L-109670

This Order extends to Tuvalu the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971, with the necessary adaptations, enabling effect to be given to the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage opened for signature in Brussels on 29th November 1969 (Cmnd. 4403). The Order also extends the provisions of Parts I and V of, and of Schedule 1 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1974, with the necessary adaptations, enabling effect to be given to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage opened for signature in Brussels on 18th December 1971 (Cmnd. 5061). The 1969 Convention provides uniform rules and procedures for determining questions of liability and for awarding compensation when damage is caused by pollution resulting from the escape or discharge of oil from ships. The 1971 Convention sets up an international fund to provide a supplementary system for compensation and indemnification for such damage.

Rwanda - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Loi n° 17/2019 du 10 août 2019 portant interdiction de fabrication, d’importation, d’utilisation et de commercialisation des sacs en plastique et des objets en plastique à usage unique. -

Adoption: 2019-08-10 | Date d'entrée en vigueur: 2019-09-23 | RWA-2019-L-112325

Abroge la loi n° 57/2008 du 10 septembre 2008 portant interdiction de la fabrication, l’importation, l’utilisation et la commercialisation des sachets en plastique au Rwanda. Texte également disponible en anglais et en rwandais.

Serbie - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Law on climate change, 2021. -

Adoption: 2021 | SRB-2021-L-113431

Seychelles - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Environment Protection Act 1994 (Act No. 9 of 1994). -

Adoption: 1994 | SYC-1994-L-82727

Part I - Preliminary
Part II - Administration
Part III - Prevention, Control and Abatement of Environment Pollution
Part IV - Environment Impact Assessment
Part V - Enforcement
Part VI - Offences, Penalties and Procedures
Part VII - Miscellaneous Provisions

Seychelles - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Environment Protection Act 1988. No. 9.

Adoption: 1988-10-14 | SYC-1988-L-7400

Covers, inter alia, industrial waste disposal.

Sierra Leone - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

The Environment Agency Protection Act, 2008 [No. 11 of 2008]. -

Adoption: 2008-08-11 | SLE-2008-L-87735

An Act to establish the Sierra Leone Environment Protection Agency, to provide for the effective protection of the environment and for other related matters.
Repeals the Environment Protection Act, 2000 [No. 2 of 2000]

Sierra Leone - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

The Environment Protection Act, 2000 [No. 2 of 2000]. -

Adoption: 2000-02-28 | SLE-2000-L-78347

Singapour - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Resource Sustainability Act 2019 (Act 29 of 2019). -

Adoption: 2019-10-04 | SGP-2019-L-109959

An Act to impose obligations relating to the collection and treatment of electrical and electronic waste and food waste, to require reporting of packaging imported into or used in Singapore, to regulate persons operating producer responsibility schemes, and to promote resource sustainability.

Singapour - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Carbon Pricing Act 2018 (No. 23 of 2018). -

Adoption: 2018 | SGP-2018-L-109956

An Act to require the reporting of, and the payment of a tax in relation to, greenhouse gas emissions, and to make consequential and related amendments to the Energy Conservation Act (Chapter 92C of the 2014 Revised Edition).

Slovaquie - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Règlement, Décret, Arrêté, Ordonnance

Decree of the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic No. 157 of 31 March 2005 which implements Act No. 587/2004 Coll. on the Environmental Fund and on amendments to certain laws. -

Adoption: 2005-03-31 | Date d'entrée en vigueur: 2005-05-01 | SVK-2005-R-113700

Slovaquie - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Act No. 587 of 21 October 2004 on the Environmental Fund and on amendments to certain laws. -

Adoption: 2004-10-21 | Date d'entrée en vigueur: 2005-01-01 | SVK-2004-L-113699

Slovaquie - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Act No. 17 of 5 December 1991 about the environment. -

Adoption: 1992-12-05 | Date d'entrée en vigueur: 1992-01-16 | SVK-1992-L-113720

Somalie - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Environmental Management Law (Law No. 79/2018). -

Adoption: 2018-08-25 | SOM-2018-L-108742

Sri Lanka - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Sri Lanka Sustainable Development Act, No. 19 of 2017. -

Adoption: 2017-10-03 | LKA-2017-L-106760

The Act has been adopted to develop and implement a National Policy and Strategy on Sustainable Development and establish a Sustainable Development Council in order to establish and work towards achieving national goals based on the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in national planning processes, policies and strategies in the relevant ongoing processes in the economic, social and environmental fields.

Suède - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Règlement, Décret, Arrêté, Ordonnance

Ordinance to amend the Ordinance (No. 840 of 1985) respecting certain products which are dangerous to health and the environment.

Adoption: 1988-06-09 | SWE-1988-R-7019

Repeals s. 9 and amends s. 2 (the scope of application in regard to chemical products).

Suisse - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Règlement, Décret, Arrêté, Ordonnance

Ordonnance du 16 décembre 1985 sur la protection de l’air (OPair). -

Adoption: 1985-12-16 | Date d'entrée en vigueur: 1986-03-01 | CHE-1985-R-112466

Suisse - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Loi fédérale du 7 octobre 1983 sur la protection de l’environnement (Loi sur la protection de l’environnement, LPE). -

Adoption: 1983-10-07 | Date d'entrée en vigueur: 1985-01-01 | CHE-1983-L-112468

Tadjikistan - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Law No. 1448 of 18 July 2017 "On Evaluation of Impact on the Environment". -

Adoption: 2017-07-18 | TJK-2017-L-106756

Establishes the general provisions, including the principles of evaluation of the impact on the environment; the competencies and powers of state authorities in this field; the procedure of conduct of evaluation of the impact on the environment, including the mandatory nature of the evaluation, the subjects, the phases of conduct thereof, and the criteria of the evaluation. Also defines the role, rights and duties of public associations in the sphere of evaluation of impact on the environment, also access to information on evaluation for citizens.

Tonga - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Tonga Climate Change Fund Act 2021 (Act 5 of 2021). -

Adoption: 2021-10-28 | TON-2021-L-113928

An Act to establish a national climate change fund for Tonga, to receive monies from national and international sources and to finance national climate change projects which deal with climate change mitigation and adaption.

Tunisie - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Loi organique n° 2019-60 du 9 juillet 2019 relative à l’Instance du développement durable et des droits des générations futures. -

Adoption: 2019-07-09 | TUN-2019-L-112570

Tuvalu - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Climate Change Resilience Act 2019 (Act No. 9 of 2019). -

Adoption: 2019-07-01 | TUV-2019-L-109639

PART I - PRELIMINARY
1 Short Title
2 Interpretation
3 Conventions to which this Act applies
4 Act to bind the Crown
5 Territorial application

PART II – OBJECTIVES AND COMMITMENTS
6 Policy objectives
7 Purposes of the Act
8 Commitments
9 Greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets

PART III – ADMINISTRATION
10 Functions and powers of the Minister
11 Delegation of functions and powers to the Director
12 Department of Climate Change and Disaster
13 Director of the Department
14 Delegation of powers by the Director
15 Functions of the Department in building resilience to climate change
16 Functions of the Department relating to climate change related Conventions
17 Precautionary approach

PART IV – FORUM, COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES
18 National Climate Change Resilience Forum
19 National Advisory Council on Climate Change
20 Council to provide advice and to act as competent authority

PART V – POLICIES TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE
21 National Climate Change Policy
22 Strategies and plans to address climate change
23 Responsibilities in implementation
24 Requirement to provide assistance and information for data collection and analysis
25 Climate Change and Disaster Survival Fund
26 Climate Change and Disaster Levy

PART VI – ENFORCEMENT
27 Prohibition on the exploration, mining and extraction of fossil fuels
28 Supplying false information
29 Penalty for carrying out any activity or project without approval
30 Activity to cease
31 Offences by corporations
32 Immunity

PART VII – MISCELLANEOUS
33 Regulations
34 Consequential amendments
35 Saving and transitional provisions

SCHEDULE
LIST OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

Tuvalu - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Climate Change and Disaster Survival Fund Act 2015 (Act No. 11 of 2016). -

Adoption: 2016-01-01 | TUV-2016-L-102715

Tuvalu - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Ozone Protection Act, 2008 (CAP. 30.30). -

Adoption: 2008-08-18 | TUV-2008-L-109668

Tuvalu - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) (Tuvalu) Order, 1975 (CAP 48:30). -

Adoption: 1975 | INT-1975-L-109670

This Order extends to Tuvalu the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971, with the necessary adaptations, enabling effect to be given to the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage opened for signature in Brussels on 29th November 1969 (Cmnd. 4403). The Order also extends the provisions of Parts I and V of, and of Schedule 1 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1974, with the necessary adaptations, enabling effect to be given to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage opened for signature in Brussels on 18th December 1971 (Cmnd. 5061). The 1969 Convention provides uniform rules and procedures for determining questions of liability and for awarding compensation when damage is caused by pollution resulting from the escape or discharge of oil from ships. The 1971 Convention sets up an international fund to provide a supplementary system for compensation and indemnification for such damage.

Ukraine - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Law No. 2059-VIII of 23 May 2017 "On Evaluation of Impact on the Environment". -

Adoption: 2017-05-23 | Date d'entrée en vigueur: 2017-06-18 | UKR-2017-L-106563

Establishes legal and organizational grounds of the evaluation of impact on the environment, aimed at the prevention of harm to the environment, ensuring of ecological safety, protection of the environment, rational use and reproduction of natural resources, in the process of decision making about the realization of economic activity, which can have a serious impact on the environment, taking into consideration of state, public and private interests.

Ukraine - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Règlement, Décret, Arrêté, Ordonnance

Decree No. 188/98-VR of 5 March 1998 on the basic orientations of the State policy of Ukraine in the fields of protection of the environment, use of natural resources and ecological security (Text No. 248).

Adoption: 1998-03-05 | UKR-1998-R-51274

Union européenne - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Règlement (UE)

Règlement (UE) 2021/783 du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 29 avril 2021 établissant un programme pour l’environnement et l’action pour le climat (LIFE), et abrogeant le règlement (UE) n° 1293/2013. (Regulation (EU) 2021/783 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 establishing a Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE), and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1293/2013.) -

Adoption: 2021-04-29 | Date d'entrée en vigueur: 2021-05-17 | EEU-2021-RE-112583

Applicable à partir du 1er janvier 2021.

Uruguay - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Ley núm. 19773, de 9 de julio de 2019, que aprueba el Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe, denominado “Acuerdo de Escazú”, adoptado el 4 de marzo de 2018, en Escazú, República de Costa Rica -

Adoption: 2019-07-09 | Date d'entrée en vigueur: 2019-07-31 | URY-2019-L-109837

La ley citada aprueba el Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe, denominado “Acuerdo de Escazú”, adoptado el 4 de marzo de 2018, en Escazú, República de Costa Rica, destinado a garantizar la implementación plena y efectiva en América Latina y el Caribe de los derechos de acceso a la información ambiental, participación pública en los procesos de toma de decisiones ambientales y acceso a la justicia en asuntos ambientales, así como la creación y el fortalecimiento de las capacidades y la cooperación, contribuyendo a la protección del derecho de cada persona, de las generaciones presentes y futuras, a vivir en un medio ambiente sano y al desarrollo sostenible.

Vanuatu - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Environmental Protection and Conservation (Amendment) Act 2019 (Act No. 6 of 2019). -

Adoption: 2019-06-24 | VUT-2019-L-112149

Vanuatu - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

National Green Energy Fund Act 2018 (Act No. 10 of 2018). -

Adoption: 2018-07-06 | VUT-2018-L-112139

An Act to provide for the establishment of the National Green Energy Fund and for its related matters.

Vanuatu - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Environmental Protection and Conservation (Amendment) Act 2017 (Act No. 24 of 2017). -

Adoption: 2018-01-02 | VUT-2018-L-112148

Vanuatu - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Meteorology, Geological Hazards and Climate Change Act 2016 (Act No. 25 of 2016). -

Adoption: 2017-01-26 | VUT-2017-L-105148

An Act to provide for the provisions of meteorology, geological hazards and climate change and for related purposes.

The objectives of this Act are to:
(a) ensure that high quality services are provided in relation to weather, climate, flood forecasting and geological hazards in Vanuatu; and
(b) promote capacities of governments, communities and organisations to understand and respond to risks arising from weather events, climate change and geological hazards; and
(c) specifically address the needs of operators of ships and aircrafts and of tourists, to access all necessary weather forecasts, bulletins, alerts, warnings and information concerning geological hazards which may impact upon the safety of their operations or activities; and
(d) facilitate the use and application within Vanuatu of relevant information, forecasts, bulletins and warnings generated and disseminated to and by local, regional and international bodies; and
(e) ensure that the government and the public are informed of matters related to weather, climate and geological hazards, and are able to make effective use of such information and data, and to respond to warnings and alerts about such events, in order to protect the environment and the safety and welfare of the community.

Repeals the Meteorology Act [CAP 204].

Vanuatu - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Environmental Management and Conservation Act 2002 (Act No. 12 of 2002). -

Adoption: 2003-03-10 | VUT-2003-L-112147

Viet Nam - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Règlement, Décret, Arrêté, Ordonnance

Resolution No. 80/NQ-CP on sustainable poverty reduction during 2011-2020. (Vê dinh huóng giam nghèo bên vung thoi ky tù nam 2011 dên nam 2020) -

Adoption: 2011-05-19 | VNM-2011-R-91859

I - Objectives
General Objective:
Sustainable poverty reduction is a central issue of the 2011-2020 socio-economic development strategy aimed at improving and incrementally raising the living conditions for the poor, first of all those in mountainous and ethnic minority areas; to make strong and comprehensive improvements in poor areas; and to narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, among regions, ethnic minorities and population groups.
Specific Objectives:
a. The average income per capita of poor households will increase 3.5 times; the rate of poor households will drop 2% per year, particularly 4% in poor districts and communes by poverty standards set for each period;
b. The poor's living conditions will be markedly improved, first of all in health, education, culture, daily-life water and housing; the poor will have more and more convenient access to basic social services;
c. Socio-economic infrastructure facilities in poor districts and communes and extremely disadvantaged villages and hamlets will receive concentrated and synchronous investment according to new countryside standards, first of all essential infrastructure such as transport, electricity and daily-life water supply.

II - Beneficiaries and Scope
III - Policies
IV - Organization of Implementation

Yémen - Droit de l'environnement, du climat et du développement durable - Loi

Law No. 26 of 1995 on the environment protection. -

Adoption: 1995-10-29 | YEM-1995-L-83565

This Law is composed of 5 Sections divided into 95 articles. Section I deals with terms and definitions and defines objectives of this Law which are: protection of environment; pollution control; protection, preservation and development of natural resources; protection of the society, public health, and all being livings from all dangerous and hazardous activities; protection of the national environment from external hazards activities; accomplishment of all international obligations relating to the environment protection and pollution control; and the contribution in the protection of ozone layer and climate. Section II provides for the following matters: water and soil protection; creation of protected areas; use, circulation, trade, registration, control, inspection of pesticides; and the issuance of licence for pesticides. Section III refers to the dangerous and hazardous activities to environment especially: control of activities that are dangerous and hazardous to the environment; laying down standards, criterion and technical requirements for the aforementioned activities; issuance of licences for and EIA for projects; trade and circulation of hazardous waste disposal; environment protection and economic development; and environment monitoring. Section IV pertains to marine pollution. Offences, penalties and compensations for environmental damages are given in Section V.