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Somalia - Country Profiles

Provisional Constitution of the Federal Republic of Somalia.
Date of text: 01 August 2012

Policies

Somalia's Third Generation Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0).
Date of text: 2025
National Solutions Pathways Action Plan 2024 - 2029.
Date of text: 2024
Strategic Plan 2024-2028.
Date of text: 01 November 2023
Somalia’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Framework.
Date of text: 01 February 2022
National Water Resource Strategy 2021-2025.
Date of text: 01 August 2021

Legislation

Disaster risk management

Somaliland: National Environment Research and Disaster­-preparedness (NERAD) Agency Law – Law No. 35 of 2006.
Date of text: 2006

Environment

Environmental Protection and Management Act 2024.
Date of text: 01 April 2024
Environmental And Social Impact Assessment And Audit Regulations (ESIA) 2024.
Date of text: 2024
Law ratifying the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973 (MARPOL)(No. 71 of 1989)
Date of text: 01 November 1989
Somaliland: Somaliland Environmental Management Law No. 79 of 2018.
Date of text: 02 August 2018
Somaliland: Waste Management and Urban Sanitation Law No.83 of 2018.
Date of text: 15 December 2018

Fisheries and aquaculture

Fisheries law of the Federal Republic of Somalia (Review of 2016).
Date of text: 2016
Fisheries Joint Venture Guidelines, 1985.
Date of text: 01 April 1985
Somaliland: Somaliland Fishery Law No. 84/2018.
Date of text: 07 October 2018
Somaliland: Somaliland Fishery Law (No. 24 of 1995)
Date of text: 24 November 1995
Somaliland: Regulations on Registration and Licensing of Fishing Vessels (No. 1/08/2012).
Date of text: 05 August 2012

Food and nutrition

Somaliland: National Dairy Act.
Date of text: 2015

Forestry

Law on Fauna (Hunting) and Forest Conservation (No. 15 of 1969).
Date of text: 25 January 1969
Somaliland: Forestry and Wildlife Conservation Law No. 69/2015.
Date of text: 21 December 2015
Somaliland: Law on the Prevention of Deforestation and Desertification (Law N: 04/1998).
Date of text: 1998

Land and soil

Interim Protocol on Land Distribution for Housing to Eligible Refugee-Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons, 2019.
Date of text: 2019
Somaliland: Urban Land Management Law – Law No: 17/2001 as amended in 2008.
Date of text: 2001 (2008)
Somaliland: Somaliland Agricultural Land Ownership Law (No:08/99).
Date of text: 1999
Puntland: Regulation of Land Dispute Tribunal (LDT) of Puntland 2017.
Date of text: 2017

Livestock

Veterinary Law Code 2016.
Date of text: 2016
Law on prohibition of grazing in military zones (No. 72 of 1970).
Date of text: 10 December 1970
Livestock Development Agency Law (No. 34 of 1970).
Date of text: 26 June 1970
Decree of the President of the Supreme Revolutionary Council on the Organization and Establishment of the Ministry of Rural Development of Livestock (No. 263 of 1970).
Date of text: 25 November 1970
Somaliland: National Dairy Act.
Date of text: 2015

Mineral resources and energy

Somali Petroleum Law.
Date of text: 01 February 2020
Somaliland: Energy Law No. 81/2018.
Date of text: 01 March 2018

Sea

Law No. 37 of 1972 on the Somali Territorial Sea and Ports.
Date of text: 10 September 1972
Maritime Code.
Date of text: 21 March 1959
Somaliland Ports Authority, Law No. 94/2021
Date of text: 12 April 2021
Proclamation by the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia of 30 June 2014 on the EEZ.
Date of text: 30 June 2014
Law on the Somali Territorial Sea and Ports, 1972 (Articles 1 to 5).
Date of text: 1972

Social protection

Interim Protocol on Land Distribution for Housing to Eligible Refugee-Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons, 2019.
Date of text: 2019

Water

Law No. 28 of 20 February 1971 Governing the Water Development Agency.
Date of text: 20 February 1971
Somaliland: National Water Act (No. 49 of 2011).
Date of text: 28 March 2011
Puntland: Puntland Water Resources Act.
Date of text: 01 September 2018
Puntland: Puntland State Water and Land Resources Data Management Law No. 2 of 2021.
Date of text: 08 April 2021

Wild species and ecosystems

Law on Fauna (Hunting) and Forest Conservation (No. 15 of 1969).
Date of text: 25 January 1969
Law on the establishment of the National Parks Agency (No. 34 of 1971).
Date of text: 01 March 1971
Decree of the Supreme Council concerning trophies (No. 3 of 1969).
Date of text: 16 December 1969
Somaliland: Forestry and Wildlife Conservation Law No. 69/2015.
Date of text: 21 December 2015
Amendment to the Law on Fauna (Hunting) and Forest Conservation (No. 65 of 1971).
Date of text: 13 October 1971

Miscellaneous

Somali Civil Code.
Date of text: 02 June 1973
Law No. 40 of 4 October 1973 on Cooperative Development in the Somali Democratic Republic.
Date of text: 04 October 1973
Law on the Registration of Commercial Companies at the Duty Free Zones, Law No. 96/2021
Date of text: 12 April 2021
Somaliland Special Economic Zones Law, No: 93/2021
Date of text: 06 February 2021
Law on the Delineation of the Organization of the Government and of Independent Public Bodies - Law No.71/2015.
Date of text: 08 February 2016

International Agreements

African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Revised version).
Date of text: 11 July 2003
African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption.
Date of text: 11 July 2003
Treaty establishing the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.
Date of text: 05 November 1993

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