Oil Code

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Field	Value
Sector	Oil and Gas
Country	Congo
Year	1994
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Contract transparency and monitoring, Legislation and regulation, Licensing and negotiation, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, State-owned enterprises, Subnational governance, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type	Policy Document
RGI Sub-component	Licensing
RGI Questions	1.1a: How does the country legally define the ownership of subsoil extractive resources?, 1.1.9a: Is the government required to publicly disclose all signed licenses/contracts with extractive companies?, 1.1.5d: Are there rules that companies can follow to appeal licensing decisions?, 1.1.10d: Is the legislature required to ratify licenses/contracts?, 1.2a: What is the fiscal system for extractive resources?, 1.3.5a: Do rules require the government to set penalties (i.e. fines, license suspension or license revocation) for non-compliance with environmental mitigation management plans?, 1.4a: What proportion of equity shares does the government own in extractive companies?, 2.2a: Does the central government transfer extractive resource revenues to subnational governments?, 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?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law
Publisher	Droit d'Afrique
Author	Droit d'Afrique Droit d'Afrique
Source or API link	http://www.droit-afrique.com/upload/doc/congo/Congo-Code-1994-hydrocarbures.pdf
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute