Second Amendment to the Myanmar Gemstone Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No 23/2016)

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Field	Value
Sector	Mining
Country	Myanmar
Year	2016
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, State-owned enterprises
Document Type	Statute
RGI Sub-component	Licensing
RGI Questions	1.1c: What licensing process does the licensing authority follow?, 1.1.3a: Is the government required to set pre-defined criteria by which companies become qualified to participate in a licensing process?, 1.1.5b: Following each licensing process, is the licensing authority required to publicly disclose the identity of the winning bidder or applicant?, 1.1.5d: Are there rules that companies can follow to appeal licensing decisions?, 1.3.5b: Are there rules governing rehabilitation and closure of extractive projects?, 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)?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law
Publisher	Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Author	Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
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