Niger's 2010 Constitution

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Field Value
Sector Mining
Country Niger
Year 2010
RGI Edition Year 2017
Topic Contract transparency and monitoring, Legislation and regulation, 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
Document Type Statute
RGI Sub-component Local impact
RGI Questions 1.1a: How does the country legally define the ownership of subsoil extractive resources?,
1.1.5c: Following the licensing process, is the licensing authority required to publicly disclose the list of areas or blocks allocated?,
1.2.3a: Is the government required to publicly disclose data on payments from extractive companies to the government?,
1.3.1a: Are extractive companies required to prepare an EIA and/or SIA prior to development?,
1.4.7d: Are there rules that require the SOE or government to publicly disclose information on the sale of production by the SOE?,
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)?,
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?,
2.3b: If there are multiple natural resource funds, which is the largest?,
2.3.6c: From 2015 onwards, has the legislature reviewed the sovereign wealth fund's annual financial reports?
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Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice Law and
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Publisher Niger Government
Author
Source or API link http://www.gouv.ne/docpdf/constitution.pdf
Maintainer Natural Resource Governance Institute
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