Niger: Loi Miniere

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Field	Value
Sector	Mining
Country	Niger
Year	2006
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Beneficial ownership, Contract transparency and monitoring, Legislation and regulation, Licensing and negotiation, Mandatory payment disclosure, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, 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?, 1.1.8b: 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?, 1.1.3a: Is the government required to set pre-defined criteria by which companies become qualified to participate in a licensing process?, 1.1.10c: Who has the primary authority to monitor compliance with the operational aspects of licenses/contracts?, 1.2.5a: Do rules specify the income tax rate(s) applying to extractive companies? , 1.2.5b: Do rules specify the royalty rate(s) applying to extractive companies?, 1.2.6b: Is the national tax authority required to audit extractive companies?, 2.2a: Does the central government transfer extractive resource revenues to subnational governments?, 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 and Practice (Both)
Publisher	Niger Government
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Source or API link	http://www.droit-afrique.com/upload/doc/niger/Niger-Decret-2006-265-application-loi-miniere.pdf
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute