First Gemstone Amendment to the Myanmar Gemstone Law

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Sector Mining
Country Myanmar
Year 2003
RGI Edition Year 2017
Topic Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Mandatory payment disclosure, State-owned enterprises, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type Statute
RGI Sub-component Licensing
RGI Questions 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?,
1.1.5d: Are there rules that companies can follow to appeal licensing decisions?,
1.2.5b: Do rules specify the royalty rate(s) applying to extractive companies?,
1.4.3a: Is the SOE required to publicly disclose annual reports containing information on its finances and operations?,
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
Publisher Myanmar Parliament
Author Myanmar Parliament
Source or API link http://rgi.nrgi-assessment.org/api/public/documents/MMR-2016-MI
Maintainer Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email Natural Resource Governance Institute