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Lebanon - Country Profiles

Constitution of Lebanon.
Date of text: 23 May 1926

Policies

Lebanon's National Adaptation Plan - Strategy & Roadmap.
Date of text: 2025
Lebanon's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2025.
Date of text: 2025
Lebanon’s Long Term - Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS).
Date of text: 2025
Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0) target year 2035.
Date of text: 2025
Lebanon's National Water Strategy 2024 – 2035.
Date of text: 01 April 2024

Legislation

Agricultural and rural development

Organic Production Regulation Law No. 158 of 2020.
Date of text: 14 May 2020
Decree No.5246 of 1994 on the organization of the Ministry of Agriculture and identifying its organogram and recruitment conditions in some of its positions and the salaries scale of the technical staff.
Date of text: 20 June 1994
Resolution No.1038/1 of 2013 creating the National Committee for the Conservation Agriculture.
Date of text: 05 November 2013
Resolution No.181 of 2012 establishing a National Cooperative Fund for Agricultural Insurance from Natural Disasters.
Date of text: 11 December 2012
Resolution No. 253/1 of 2012 - Conditions required to join forage growers to the Program of Development of Fodder Cultivation and Cattle Breeding.
Date of text: 27 March 2012

Climate change

Law No. 115 of 2019 approving the conclusion of the Paris Agreement annexed to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Date of text: 29 March 2019

Cultivated plants

Resolution No. 311/1 concerning the organization of the import of pesticides.
Date of text: 24 June 2010
Plant Quarantine and Phytosanitary Measures Law No.778 of 2006.
Date of text: 28 November 2006
Resolution No. 528/1 of 2023: Phytosanitary measures to prevent the entry and spread of fruit flies when importing fruit types susceptible to infection.
Date of text: 13 November 2023
Decree No.693/1 of 2014 determining the conditions to import of potato seeds.
Date of text: 02 September 2014
Resolution No. 3 of 2018 suspending the implementation of two articles of Resolution No. 790/1 of 2017 (preventing the registration and import of harmful agricultural pesticides).
Date of text: 29 January 2018

Environment

Law No.444 of 2002 on environmental protection.
Date of text: 29 July 2002
Environmental Impact Assessment Decree No. 8633 of 2012.
Date of text: 07 August 2012
Law No.80 of 2018 on Integrated Solid Waste Management.
Date of text: 10 October 2018
Law No. 64 of 1988 on the protection of the environment against pollution from hazardous waste disposal and substances.
Date of text: 12 August 1988
Law No.78 of 2018 on Air Quality Protection.
Date of text: 13 April 2018

Fisheries and aquaculture

Resolution No. 254/1 of 1995 regulating fishing- diving sport.
Date of text: 08 December 1995
Resolution No. 254 of 2023 prohibiting the use of slaughterhouse waste to feed fish.
Date of text: 05 June 2023
Resolution No.53 of 2022 establishing Unions of Workers in fishing and fish farming in Lebanon.
Date of text: 13 May 2022
Decision No.1044/1 of 2014 on General conditions to protect cetaceans/marine mammals (as whales, dolphins and sea lions).
Date of text: 25 November 2014
Decision No. 1045/1 of 2014 on General conditions to protect sharks/dogfish.
Date of text: 25 November 2014

Food and nutrition

Law No. 284 of 2022 establishing a mandatory Union for Nutrition and Meal Planning specialists in Lebanon.
Date of text: 12 April 2022
Law No. 183 of 2020 Incentivizing Food Donations.
Date of text: 16 June 2020
Food Safety Act No.35 of 2015.
Date of text: 13 April 2018
Law 178/2011: The addition of Potassium Iodide or Potassium Iodate and Potassium Fluoride to table salt or kitchen salt.
Date of text: 29 August 2011
Law No. 47 of 2008 regulating the marketing of Infant and newborn Nutrition Products and their accessories (and tools).
Date of text: 11 December 2008

Forestry

Forestry Law of 1949.
Date of text: 07 December 1949
Law No.131 of 2019 regarding the protection of the Beirut Forest.
Date of text: 30 April 2019
Law No.92 of 2010 on Preservation of burnt green spaces and ban to change their land use.
Date of text: 06 March 2010
Law No. 558 of 1996 on forest protection.
Date of text: 24 July 1996
Law No. 85 of 1991 on the protection of forests and forestry resources.
Date of text: 07 September 1991

Land and soil

Decree No 2366 of 2009 defining the Comprehensive Plan for Lebanese Territory Arrangement.
Date of text: 20 June 2009
Real Estate Ownership Law issued by Resolution No. 3339 of 1930.
Date of text: 12 November 1930
Resolution No.507/1 of 2012 - Conditions for registration of fertilizers and soil improvers traded in Lebanon.
Date of text: 08 June 2012
Decree No. 4122 concerning the transfer of a part of the public property river (irrigation canal) as State private property and substituting it by a concrete channel in the region of Ain Saade - Matn District.
Date of text: 28 May 2010
Resolution No. 46/1 of 2009 on the mechanism for arranging and settling lands.
Date of text: 17 June 2009

Livestock

Law No. 47 of 2017 - Animal Protection and Welfare.
Date of text: 05 September 2017
Resolution No. 16/1 of 2001 defining the environmental requirements for licence for cattle farms, domestic birds and domestic animals like rabbits and pigs.
Date of text: 21 March 2001
Resolution No. 221/1 of 2022 banning the Import, Circulation, and Use of Colistin in the Veterinary Sector in Lebanon.
Date of text: 20 April 2022
Decree No.884 of 2017 on conditions to be met in imported fodder and grain.
Date of text: 16 November 2017
Resolution No.487/1 of 2014 on Export and re-export of live cattle.
Date of text: 11 June 2014

Mineral resources and energy

Offshore Petroleum Resources Law No.132 of 2010.
Date of text: 24 August 2010
Electricity Sector Regulatory Law No. 462 of 2002
Date of text: 02 September 2002 (2019)
Law No. 318 of 2023 - Distributed Renewable Energy Production Law.
Date of text: 22 December 2023
Law No. 320 of 2023 - Lebanese Sovereign Wealth Fund Law.
Date of text: 22 December 2023
Decree No.43 of 2017 including the Tender Protocol (TP) related to the offshore licensing round, and the Exploration and Production Agreement (EPA).
Date of text: 19 January 2017

Sea

Decree No. 6433 on delineation of the boundaries of the exclusive economic zone of Lebanon.
Date of text: 01 October 2011
Law No.571 of 2004 enforcing the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area.
Date of text: 11 February 2004
Law No.67 of 1999 enforcing enforcement of the Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses.
Date of text: 31 March 1999
Legislative Decree No. 138 of 1983 concerning the territorial waters and sea areas.
Date of text: 07 September 1983
Decree No.4810 of 1966 - Regulation of Maritime public domain.
Date of text: 24 June 1966 (16 October 1980)

Water

Law No. 192 of 2020 to amend Law No. 77 of 13/4/2018 “Water Law”.
Date of text: 16 October 2020
Decree No. 2773 of 2009 authorizing the exploitation of the water of the two springs located in the zone of Tannourin Attahta for industrial uses.
Date of text: 30 October 2009
Law No.221 of 2000 on Water Sector Organization.
Date of text: 26 May 2000 (14 December 2001)
Law No.67 of 1999 enforcing enforcement of the Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses.
Date of text: 31 March 1999
Decree No.9631 of 1996 regarding additional Assignments to the Litani National Authority.
Date of text: 13 December 1996

Wild species and ecosystems

Hunting Law No. 580 of 2004.
Date of text: 25 February 2004
Law No. 47 of 2017 - Animal Protection and Welfare.
Date of text: 05 September 2017
Protected Areas Law No.130 of 2019.
Date of text: 30 April 2019
Law No. 202 of 2020 establishing the Mount Hermon Nature Reserve.
Date of text: 30 December 2020
Law No. 170 of 2020 establishing the Abbassia Beach Nature Reserve.
Date of text: 08 May 2020

Miscellaneous

Law No.175 of 2020 on Combating Corruption in the Public Sector and establishing the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
Date of text: 08 May 2020
Law 659 of 2005 on Consumer Protection as amemded by Law 265 of 2014.
Date of text: 04 February 2005 (15 April 2014)
Law 281/2022 - Competition Law.
Date of text: 15 March 2022
Public Private Partnership (PPP) Law 48 of 2017.
Date of text: 07 September 2017
Law No. 253 of 2022 establishing the National Drug Agency.
Date of text: 05 January 2022

International Agreements

Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and the Republic of Lebanon setting out the terms and conditions for the participation of the Republic of Lebanon in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA).
Date of text: 27 February 2018
Memorandum of Understanding on environmental cooperation between the Government of the Republic and the Government of the Republic of Lebanon.
Date of text: 09 December 2011
Memorandum of Understanding between Lebanon and Jordan on agricultural research cooperation.
Date of text: 23 July 2010

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