Cameroon's Petroleum Code

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Field Value
Sector Oil and Gas
Country Cameroon
Year 1999
RGI Edition Year 2017
Topic Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Open data, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, Subnational governance, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type Statute
RGI Sub-component Licensing
RGI Questions 1.1.9a: Is the government required to publicly disclose all signed licenses/contracts with extractive companies?,
1.1c: What licensing process does the licensing authority follow?,
1.1.5a: Following each licensing process, is the licensing authority required to disclose the list of companies that submitted license applications (in the case of a first-come, first served; or negotiation round) or bids (in the case of an auction)?,
1.1.10d: Is the legislature required to ratify licenses/contracts?,
1.3.1a: Are extractive companies required to prepare an EIA and/or SIA prior to development?,
2.1.4a: Does the government publicly disclose projections of extractive resource revenues?,
2.2b: Are there specific rules governing the transfer of extractive resource revenues (i.e. are these rules distinct from those governing other types of transfers)?
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Publisher Droit Afrique
Author Paul Biya
Source or API link http://www.droit-afrique.com/upload/doc/cameroun/Cameroun-Code-petrolier-1999.pdf
Maintainer Natural Resource Governance Institute
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