National Environment Act, 2019

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Field	Value
Sector	Oil and Gas, Mining
Country	Uganda
Year
RGI Edition Year	2021
Topic	Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Open data
Document Type	PDF
RGI Sub-component
RGI Questions	1.3.1b: Is there a requirement for the EIA and/or SIA to be publicly disclosed?, 1.3.1c: Are extractive companies required to prepare an SIA prior to development?, 1.3.1d: Is there a requirement for the SIA to be publicly disclosed?, 1.3.3b: Is there a requirement for environmental mitigation management plans to be publicly disclosed?, 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?, 1.3.5b: Are there rules governing rehabilitation and closure of extractive projects?, 5.4a: Do rules require environmental inspection reports to be publicly disclosed?, 5.6c: Are there rules requiring the disclosure of the Resettlement Action Plan or the Livelihood Restoration Plan, in the event that they are required when a project interferes with people's livelihoods?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law
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Source or API link	https://nema.go.ug/sites/all/themes/nema/docs/National%20Environment%20Act,%202019%20(1).pdf
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute