NewsWhore
06-24-2009, 12:50 PM
The Constitutional Revisory Assembly has passed Arts 9, 10, 11 and 56 related to the environment in a first reading.
The new provisions are that protected areas can only be reduced by law, with the approval of two thirds of the members of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
They also declare of national interest hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation.
The legislators also ruled that in the DR the rivers, lakes, lagoons, beaches and coasts belong to the public domain and are subject to free access by the public. It does, though, establish that laws will regulate the conditions in which private entities can have privileged access to these areas.
The introduction, development, production, holding, marketing, transport, storage or use of chemical, biological, nuclear or agro-chemical weapons is prohibited, as well as the introduction of nuclear residuals and toxic wastes.
It is established that non-renewable and renewable natural resources on land and sea are national patrimony.
Likewise, river sources and areas of endemic and native biodiversity are subject to protection by the government for their preservation.
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The new provisions are that protected areas can only be reduced by law, with the approval of two thirds of the members of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
They also declare of national interest hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation.
The legislators also ruled that in the DR the rivers, lakes, lagoons, beaches and coasts belong to the public domain and are subject to free access by the public. It does, though, establish that laws will regulate the conditions in which private entities can have privileged access to these areas.
The introduction, development, production, holding, marketing, transport, storage or use of chemical, biological, nuclear or agro-chemical weapons is prohibited, as well as the introduction of nuclear residuals and toxic wastes.
It is established that non-renewable and renewable natural resources on land and sea are national patrimony.
Likewise, river sources and areas of endemic and native biodiversity are subject to protection by the government for their preservation.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)