Myanmar and the Natural Resource Charter

This document is part of the source library for NRGI's 2017 Resource Governance Index, a comprehensive measure of the quality of natural resource governance in oil, gas and mineral-rich countries. To access the full dataset and all other index resources, visit https://resourcegovernanceindex.org.

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Field Value
Sector Oil and Gas
Country Myanmar
Year 2016
RGI Edition Year 2017
Topic Beneficial ownership, Licensing and negotiation, Open data, Revenue management, State-owned enterprises
Document Type Report
RGI Sub-component Licensing
RGI Questions 2.1.1d: Is the data contained in the online data portal available under an open license?,
1.1.10b: Has the government publicly disclosed all active licenses/contracts, regardless of when they were signed?,
1.1.8a: From 2015 onwards, have senior public officials publicly disclosed their financial holdings in extractive companies?,
1.1b: Who is the licensing authority (i.e. who has the authority to grant exploration and extraction rights to companies)?,
1.1c: What licensing process does the licensing authority follow?,
1.4.1a: Are there rules governing fiscal transfers between the government and 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)?
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Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice Law and
Practice (Both)
Publisher NRGI
Author Andrew Bauer
Source or API link http://www.resourcegovernance.org/sites/default/files/nrgi_Myanmar-NRC_20160107.pdf
Maintainer Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email Natural Resource Governance Institute