Sudan Petroleum Act (English)

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Sector Oil and Gas
Country Sudan
Year 1998
RGI Edition Year 2017
Topic Beneficial ownership, Contract transparency and monitoring, Legislation and regulation, Licensing and negotiation, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Open data, Revenue management, State-owned enterprises, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type Statute
RGI Sub-component Local impact
RGI Questions 1.1a: How does the country legally define the ownership of subsoil extractive resources?,
1.1.7a: Are senior public officials required to publicly disclose their financial holdings in extractive companies?,
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?,
1.1.10d: Is the legislature required to ratify licenses/contracts?,
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?,
1.3.1b: Is there a requirement for the EIA and/or SIA to be publicly disclosed?,
1.4a: What proportion of equity shares does the government own in extractive companies?,
1.4.1a: Are there rules governing fiscal transfers between the government and the SOE?,
1.4.3b: Do rules require a periodic audit of the SOE's financial statements by an external body?,
1.4.7d: Are there rules that require the SOE or government to publicly disclose information on the sale of production by the SOE?,
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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Publisher Parliament
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