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Lao People's Democratic Republic - Country Profiles

Constitution of Laos.
Date of text: 1991

Policies

The 9th National Socio-Economic Development Plan Financing Strategy (2023-2025).
Date of text: 01 September 2023
National Strategy on Disaster Risk Reduction (NSDRR) 2021-2030.
Date of text: 18 October 2021
9th Five-Year National Socio-Economic Development Plan. (2021-2025).
Date of text: 14 May 2021
National REDD+ Strategy (NRS) to 2025 and Vision to 2030.
Date of text: 01 April 2021
National Plan of Action for Nutrition 2021 – 2025.
Date of text: 2021

Legislation

Agricultural and rural development

Law on Industrial Processing.
Date of text: 26 April 1999
Law on Agriculture No. 01-98/NA.
Date of text: 10 October 1998
Decision No. 0209/MAF on Farming Management in Lao PDR.
Date of text: 06 February 2013
Decision No. 1666/MAF of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry on Organic Agriculture Standards.
Date of text: 30 December 2005
Instruction on Investment Approval and Land Management Mechanism for Leasing or Concession to Cultivate Crops no. 0457/MPI.
Date of text: 27 February 2019

Climate change

Decree on Climate Change.
Date of text: 18 September 2019

Cultivated plants

Law No. 13/NA on Plant Protection and Quarantine.
Date of text: 15 November 2016
Law No. 01/NA on Intellectual Property (Amended).
Date of text: 20 December 2011
Decree No. 155/PM on Natural resource for medicines (Pharmaceutical Natural resource).
Date of text: 30 September 2003
Arrété sur le phytosanitaire en R.D.P. Lao, nº 66 PM.
Date of text: 21 March 1993
Decree of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry no. 2897 of 2023 on the management of fertiliser factory.
Date of text: 14 June 2023

Disaster risk management

Law no. 71/NA on Disaster Management.
Date of text: 24 June 2019

Environment

Environmental Protection Law 2013 (Revised Version No. 29/NA).
Date of text: 18 December 2012
Law No. 36/NA on Meteorology and Hydrology.
Date of text: 13 November 2017
Decree No. 112/PM on Environmental Impact Assessment.
Date of text: 18 February 2010
Law on National Heritage No. 08/NA.
Date of text: 2005
Law No. 09/NA on State Assets.
Date of text: 12 October 2002

Fisheries

Decree No. 097/PS of the President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on the Promulgation of the Law on Aquatic and Fisheries (Amended).
Date of text: 17 July 2023
Decree No. 098 /PO of the President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on the the Promulgation of the Law on Wild Animal (Amended).
Date of text: 30 August 2023
Ordonnance royale nº 34 fixant le régime de pêche.
Date of text: 04 March 1949
Decision no. 0545/MOAF on antimicrobials for animals and aquatic animals.
Date of text: 12 May 2021

Food and nutrition

Law on Food No. 33/NA (Amended).
Date of text: 24 July 2013
Decree of the President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on the Promulgation of the Law on Food No. 04/NA.
Date of text: 15 May 2004
Ministerial Regulation No. 518/MoH on the basic principles in the application of sanitary and technical measures for food safety management.
Date of text: 18 March 2009
Decree no. 283/GM on the promotion of school meals.
Date of text: 11 August 2022
Decision No. 0452/MOIC.DIMEX on the Procedures for Rice Import and Export in the Lao PDR.
Date of text: 01 March 2012

Forestry

Forestry Law No. 64/NPC.
Date of original text: 24 December 2007 (13 June 2019)
Forestry Law, 1996.
Date of text: 11 October 1996
Order No. 17/PM on Strengthening the Forest Management, Protection and Coordination of Forest Management and Forestry Business.
Date of text: 22 September 2008
Decree No. 59/2002 on Sustainable Management of Production Forest Areas.
Date of text: 22 May 2002
Decree of the Prime Minister on the Organization and Activities of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
Date of text: 22 November 1991

Gender

Labor Law No. 43/NA (Amended)
Date of text: 24 December 2013
Law No. 08/NA on the Development and Protection of Women.
Date of text: 22 October 2004

Indigenous peoples

Decree No. 207 on Ethnic Groups.
Date of text: 20 March 2020

Land and soil

Land Law (No. 04/NA).
Date of original text: 21 October 2003 (21 June 2019)
Property Law.
Date of text: 27 June 1990
Law No. 03-99/NA on Urban Plans.
Date of text: 03 April 1999
Law No. 03/90/PSA on Heritage and Basis of Inheritance.
Date of text: 27 June 1990
Decree of the Prime Minister relating to the transformation of State land use right and ownership on houses, vehicles and essential household equipment into Government personnel ownership and use right.
Date of text: 12 November 1994

Livestock

Law on Animal Husbandry and Veterinary (Revised) No. 08 / NA.
Date of text: 11 November 2016
Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry no. 174 of 2022 on Slaughter of Animals, Destruction of Animal Remains and Compensation.
Date of text: 31 May 2022
Decree no. 02/GoL on Animal Feed.
Date of text: 02 January 2020
Decision no. 0545/MOAF on antimicrobials for animals and aquatic animals.
Date of text: 12 May 2021
Decree no. 199/GOL on Veterinary Medicines.
Date of text: 13 March 2020

Social protection

Law on Social Security.
Date of text: 26 July 2013

Water

Law on Water and Water Resource (No. 02-96).
Date of text: 11 October 1996
Law on Water and Water Resources (Amended) 2017.
Date of text: 11 May 2017
Law No. 36/NA on Meteorology and Hydrology.
Date of text: 13 November 2017
Law no. 34/SNP of 2022 on waterways.
Date of text: 29 December 2022
Law No. 09/NA on State Assets.
Date of text: 12 October 2002

Wild species and ecosystems

Decree No. 098 /PO of the President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on the the Promulgation of the Law on Wild Animal (Amended).
Date of text: 30 August 2023
Loi nº 26 sur droits de capture, d'immatriculation et de mutation des éléphants au Laos.
Date of text: 08 January 1949
Decree No. 155/PM on Natural resource for medicines (Pharmaceutical Natural resource).
Date of text: 30 September 2003
Décret fixant le régime de chasse, modifié et complété par ceux du 27-6-1934 et du 7-4-1938.
Date of text: 07 February 1927
Executive Decree no. 348 on the Management of International Trade in Aquatic Animals, Wild Animals and Endangered Wild Plants.
Date of text: 11 November 2022

Miscellaneous

Civil Code.
Date of text: 18 January 2019
Law on Minerals No. 02/NA (Revised Version).
Date of text: 20 December 2011
Law on Trade Union (Revised) No. 39/NA.
Date of text: 15 November 2017
Penal Code No13/NA.
Date of text: 15 May 2017
Law No. 14/NA on Investment Promotion.
Date of text: 17 November 2016

International Agreements

Vientiane Declaration on Innovation and Cooperation for a Water Secure and Sustainable Mekong.
Date of text: 05 April 2023
Memorandum of Understanding under the Joint Working Group on Water Resources Cooperation of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation on the Provision of Hydrological Information of the Lancang River Throughout the Year by China to the Other Five Member Countries.
Date of text: 01 November 2020
Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic on scientific and technical cooperation.
Date of text: 01 July 2013

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