Framework Law
Constitutional provisions
Natural resources: The State and the local authorities, with collaboration from associations for environmental protection, shall adopt policies to protect the environment and shall promote the rational use of all natural resources (Art. 90). Within the framework of sustainable development, the State shall adopt policies aimed at: guaranteeing the rational use of natural resources and safeguarding their capacity to regenerate, ecological stability and rights of future generations; e) promoting territorial ordinance with a view to ensuring the correct location of activities and balanced socio-economic development (Art. 117). In matter of territory and sovereignty, article 6 stipulates that the breadth, limits and legal order of Mozambique’s territorial waters, the exclusive economic zone, the contiguous zone and seabed rights shall be fixed by law. Article 98 establishes that natural resources in the soil and the subsoil, in inland waters, in the territorial sea, on the continental shelf and in the exclusive economic zone shall be the property of the State.