Decree Law No.13/2005 Timor-Leste Petroleum Activities

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Field	Value
Sector	Oil and Gas
Country	Timor-Leste
Year	2005
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Beneficial ownership, Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Open data, State-owned enterprises, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type	Statute
RGI Sub-component	Local impact
RGI Questions	1.1.7a: Are senior public officials required to publicly disclose their financial holdings in extractive companies?, 1.1.3a: Is the government required to set pre-defined criteria by which companies become qualified to participate in a licensing process?, 1.1.4b: From 2015 onwards, and prior to each licensing process, did the licensing authority actually disclose a list of biddable or negotiable terms?, 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?, 1.1.2b: Is the publicly available registry of licenses/contracts available online, offline or in paper?, 1.1.2d: Does the publicly available registry of licenses/contracts give the names of companies that hold an interest in a given area/block?, 1.2.6b: Is the national tax authority required to audit extractive companies?, 1.3.3a: Are extractive companies required to prepare environmental mitigation management plans prior to development?, 1.3.3b: Is there a requirement for environmental mitigation management plans to be publicly disclosed?, 1.3.5b: Are there rules governing rehabilitation and closure of extractive projects?, 1.4.7d: Are there rules that require the SOE or government to publicly disclose information on the sale of production by the SOE?
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Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law and Practice (Both)
Publisher	National Parliament
Author	National Parliament National Parliament
Source or API link	http://www.anp-tl.org/webs/anptlweb.nsf/vwAll/Resource-Petroleum%20Activities%20Law%20No.13-2005%C2%A0/$File/Law-2005-13-Petroleum%20activities.pdf?openelement
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