Decree of Application of Cameroon's Petroleum Code

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Field Value
Sector Oil and Gas
Country Cameroon
Year 2000
RGI Edition Year 2017
Topic Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Mandatory payment disclosure, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Open data, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, Sovereign wealth funds, State-owned enterprises, 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?,
1.1.3a: Is the government required to set pre-defined criteria by which companies become qualified to participate in a licensing process?,
1.1.3c: Prior to each license process, is the licensing authority required to disclose the rules governing the licensing process, such as auction or negotiation rules?,
1.1.5b: Following each licensing process, is the licensing authority required to publicly disclose the identity of the winning bidder or applicant?,
1.1.10d: Is the legislature required to ratify licenses/contracts?,
1.2.5c: Do rules specify the level of state equity (or options for state equity such as carried interest) in extractive companies ?,
1.2.3a: Is the government required to publicly disclose data on payments from extractive companies to the government?,
1.2.4b: How up-to-date is government data on the value of tax/payment receipts?,
1.2.4c: Is the most recent publicly available data on tax and payment receipts disaggregated by payment type?,
1.3.7a: Are there rules governing compensation to landowners or land users when project development interferes with their access to or use of land?,
1.3.5b: Are there rules governing rehabilitation and closure of extractive projects?,
1.4.2a: Does the government publicly disclose how much revenue it receives from the SOE?,
1.4.3a: Is the SOE required to publicly disclose annual reports containing information on its finances and operations?,
1.4.7d: Are there rules that require the SOE or government to publicly disclose information on the sale of production by the SOE?,
1.4.3c: Is the SOE required to submit annual reports to the legislature on its commercial, non-commercial (i.e. regulatory) and non-operational activities (i.e. activities not related to resource extraction)?,
2.2c: Do rules specify that subnational governments of producing areas should receive a higher share of extractive resource revenues than those of non-producing areas?,
2.3.5d: Is the legislature required to review the sovereign wealth fund's annual financial reports?
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Publisher Prime Minister
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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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