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Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Netherlands) - Country Profiles

Policies

Nature and Environment Policy Plan Caribbean Netherlands 2020-30.
Date of text: 01 March 2020

Legislation

Cultivated plants

Biocides Inspection Act BES.
Date of text: 28 July 2012 (2023)
Pesticides Act BES.
Date of text: 2010 (2023)

Fisheries and aquaculture

Fisheries Act BES.
Date of text: 2010 (18 February 2023)

Food and nutrition

Commodities Act BES.
Date of text: 01 January 2023

Sea

Law of the Kingdom amending the Law of the Kingdom establishing sea border between Curaçao and Bonaire, and between Sint Maarten and Saba to implement the Treaty of Philipsburg Decision of the 27th June 2018 to proclaim the Kingdom Act of May 30, 2018, amending the Kingdom Act of July 7, 2010 establishing a maritime border between Curaçao and Bonaire, and between Sint Maarten and Saba (Stb. 2010, 342), implementing the Philipsburg until 6 April 2016 Treaty concluded between the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Government of the French Republic on maritime demarcation in the Caribbean area.
Date of text: 27 June 2018
Maritime Management and Administration Act BES.
Date of text: 2018 (2023)
Law of the Kingdom establishing sea border between Curaçao and Bonaire, and between Sint Maarten and Saba.
Date of text: 07 July 2010

Water

Law on Electricity and Drinking Water.
Date of text: 23 March 2016 (05 December 2021)

Wild species and ecosystems

Act no. BWBR0028434 on Fundamentals of BES Nature Management and Protection.
Date of text: 01 January 2019