Law on Minerals

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Sector Mining
Country Lao People's Democratic Republic
Year 2011
RGI Edition Year 2017
Topic Beneficial ownership, Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Mandatory payment disclosure, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, Sovereign wealth funds, Subnational governance, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type Statute
RGI Sub-component Licensing
RGI Questions 1.1.9a: Is the government required to publicly disclose all signed licenses/contracts with extractive companies?,
1.1.7a: Are senior public officials required to publicly disclose their financial holdings in extractive companies?,
1.1.8a: From 2015 onwards, have senior public officials publicly disclosed their financial holdings in extractive companies?,
1.1.7b: Do rules require public disclosure of beneficial owners of extractive companies?,
1.1.8b: From 2015 onwards, have the beneficial owners of extractive companies been disclosed?,
1.1b: Who is the licensing authority (i.e. who has the authority to grant exploration and extraction rights to companies)?,
1.1.3d: Is the licensing authority independent from the SOE?,
1.1.10d: Is the legislature required to ratify licenses/contracts?,
1.2.5c: Do rules specify the level of state equity (or options for state equity such as carried interest) in extractive companies ?,
1.2.3a: Is the government required to publicly disclose data on payments from extractive companies to the government?,
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)?,
2.3a: Does the country have a natural resource fund which is funded by extractive resource revenues?,
2.3b: If there are multiple natural resource funds, which is the largest?
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Publisher National Assembly
Author
Source or API link http://laoofficialgazette.gov.la/
Maintainer Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email Natural Resource Governance Institute