Constitución Política de la República de Guatemala

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Sector Mining
Country Guatemala
Year 1985
RGI Edition Year 2017
Topic Legislation and regulation, Licensing and negotiation, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, State-owned enterprises, Subnational governance, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type Statute
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?,
1.2.6a: Is the government required to make all payments to the national treasury or deposit them into a national resource account, aside from amounts legally retained by SOEs?,
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?
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Publisher Diario de Centroamérica
Author Asamble Nacional Constituyente
Source or API link http://www.cc.gob.gt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=219:constitucionpdf&catid=36:catpublicaciones&Itemid=67
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