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Constitution of the Republic of Cape Verde.
Date of original text: 1992 (03 May 2010)

Políticas

Resolution No. 114/2018 approving the National Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (ENRRD).
Date of text: 20 October 2018
Resolution No. 49/2018 approving the Strategic Plan of the National Agricultural Research System (PE-SNIA) - 2017-2024.
Date of text: 14 June 2018
Resolution No. 110/2017 approving the Emergency Programme for Mitigation of Drought and the Bad Agricultural Year 2017/2018 and creating the Technical Steering Team responsible for coordinating all emergency operations.
Date of text: 06 October 2017
Resolution No. 83/2015 approving the Plan of Action of the Fisheries Policy Chart (CPP).
Date of text: 24 August 2015
Resolution No. 68/2015 approving the National Action Plan for Food and Nutrition Security (PANSAN 2014-2016).
Date of text: 27 July 2015

Legislación

Desarrollo agrícola y rural

Decree-Law No. 57/2021 establishing structure, organization and functioning of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAA).
Date of text: 29 September 2021
Decree-Law No. 49/2021 approving the General Bases for the concession of the management, exploration and distribution of water resources for irrigation.
Date of text: 10 June 2021
Decree-Law No. 47/2021 approving the general bases for the concession of the management, exploration and distribution of water resources for irrigation.
Date of text: 10 June 2021
Decree-Law No. 33/2020 creating the irrigation Company "Água de Rega (ADR), S.A.".
Date of text: 23 March 2020
Decree-Law No. 36/2018 approving the Statute of the National Institute of Agricultural Research and Development (INIDA).
Date of text: 20 June 2018

Cambio climático

Resolution No. 36/X/2022 approving, for Accession, the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Date of text: 21 February 2022
Resolution No. 73/2019 creating the Interministerial Committee for the Fund on Climate.
Date of text: 14 June 2019
Resolution No. 35/IX/2017 implementing at National level the Agreement on Climate Change.
Date of text: 12 May 2017
Resolution No. 87/2014 creating the Steering Committee for the implementation of the project "Strengthening Capacity of Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change in the water sector in Cape Verde".
Date of text: 22 October 2014
Resolution No. 86/2014 creating the Technical Committee for the implementation of the project "Strengthening Capacity of Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change in the water sector in Cape Verde".
Date of text: 22 October 2014

Cultivos

Decree-Law No. 5/2016 regulating the production, certification, marketing, import, export and control of seeds and planting material within the national territory.
Date of text: 16 January 2016
Decree-Law No. 6/2016 establishing the Regulation on monitoring and quality control of production and marketing of agricultural fertilizers.
Date of text: 16 January 2016
Decree-Law No. 26/97 regulating use, trade and inspection of pesticides.
Date of text: 20 May 1997
Law No. 29/VIII/2013 establishing phytosanitary protection norms within the territory of Cape Verde.
Date of text: 13 May 2013
Decree-Law No. 41/2010 regulating agricultural products transport from Santo Antão island within the archipelago of Cape Verde.
Date of text: 27 September 2010

Gestión del riesgo de desastres

Law No. 100/V/99 on the Basic Civil Protection Act.
Date of text: 19 April 1999
Presidential Decree No. 06/2020 on the Declaration of State of Emergency Justified by Public Disaster.
Date of original text: 28 March 2020 (14 May 2020)
Decree-Law No. 51/2020 regulating the Declaration of State of Emergency.
Date of text: 14 May 2020
Decree-Law No. 59/2018 approving the Statute of the National Emergency Fund (FNE).
Date of original text: 16 November 2018 (27 July 2022)
Decree-Law No. 67/2009 regulating the declaration of public disaster.
Date of text: 28 December 2009

Medio ambiente

Law No. 86/IV/93 establishing the Environmental Policy.
Date of text: 26 June 1993
Decree-Law No. 27/2020 approving the Legal Framework for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
Date of text: 19 March 2020
Decree-Law No. 56/2015 establishing the general regime for prevention, production and management of waste.
Date of text: 15 October 2015
Decree-Law No. 81/2005 ruling on the Environmental Information System (SIA).
Date of text: 05 December 2005
Decree-Law No. 5/2003 defining the National system for air protection and control.
Date of text: 31 March 2003

Pesca

Legislative Decree No. 2/2020 approving the general regime regulating fishing activities in national maritime waters and the high seas.
Date of text: 19 March 2020
Decree-Law No. 15/2021 approving the General Regime for Installation, Licensing and Exploration of Aquaculture Production Establishments.
Date of text: 09 February 2021
Decree-Law No. 59/2021 establishing structure, organization and functioning of the Ministry of the Sea (MM).
Date of text: 29 September 2021
Resolution No. 63/2021 approving the suspension of closed seasons for mackerel and Atlantic horse mackerel for the year 2021.
Date of text: 18 June 2021
Decree-Law No. 13/2021 approving the Statute of the General Fisheries Inspection Staff (IGP).
Date of text: 05 February 2021

Alimentación y nutrición

Law No. 37/IX/2018 approving the principles, norms and procedures that guarantee the recognition and effective exercise of the Human Right to Adequate Food and defining the guiding principles of the Food and Nutrition Security policy.
Date of text: 16 August 2018
Decree-Law No. 25/2009 approving the Regulation on the General Hygiene Standards for Foodstuffs.
Date of text: 20 July 2009
Decree-Law No. 32/2010 establishing the objective and principles of the National System for Food Control (SNCA).
Date of text: 06 September 2010
Legislative Decree No. 3/2009 on general principles for the control of the safety and quality of food and feed
Date of text: 15 June 2009
Decree-Law No. 3/2022 amending Decree-Law No. 31/2021 establishing the general conditions that pre-packaged products must satisfy.
Date of text: 08 February 2022

Bosques

Law No. 48/V/98 regulating forestry activity.
Date of text: 06 April 1998
Order No. 24/2013 creating a Work Committee to guarantee necessary conditions to enforce Decree-Law No. 7/2013 on the National Society of Rural Engineering and Forests (SONERF, E.P.E.).
Date of text: 05 April 2013
Government Resolution No. 12/2004 on the National Institute for Rural and Forest Engineering (INERF).
Date of text: 19 February 2004
Decree No. 48.198 establishing the Statute of Overseas Services for Agriculture and Forests.
Date of text: 11 January 1968
Decree-Law No. 55/2013 amending the National Society of Rural Engineering and Forests (SONERF, E.P.E.).
Date of text: 26 December 2013

Género

Law No. 68/IX/2019 establishing the Equality between Men and Women.
Date of text: 28 November 2019
Resolution No. 43/2022 amending Resolution No. 103/2018 creating the Interministerial Commission for the Cross-cutting Gender Approach.
Date of text: 14 April 2022
Resolution No. 103/2018 creating the Interministerial Commission for the Cross-cutting Gender Approach.
Date of text: 11 October 2018

Tierra y suelos

Decree-Law No. 31-A/99 approving the Civil Code of Cape Verde.
Date of original text: 25 November 1966 (30 August 1999)
Law No. 60/VIII/2014 establishing the legal regime for urban land planning.
Date of text: 23 April 2014
Decree-Law No. 43/2010 approving the National Regulation for Land and Urban Planning (RNOTPU).
Date of original text: 27 September 2010 (10 December 2018)
Legislative Decree No. 2/2007 regulating land use.
Date of text: 19 July 2007
Legislative Decree No. 1/2006 approving the Territorial and Urban Planning.
Date of text: 13 February 2006

Ganado

Legislative Decree No. 3/2009 on general principles for the control of the safety and quality of food and feed
Date of text: 15 June 2009
Decree-Law No. 45/2018 creating the National Animal Identification and Registration System (SNIRA).
Date of text: 10 July 2018
Law No. 21/IX/2018 establishing the special regime of taxes, customs and non-fiscal incentives to be granted to importers of animal feed, veterinary medicines, materials and drip-irrigation equipment.
Date of text: 22 January 2018
Law No. 115/VIII/2016 creating the Category of Veterinary Doctors of Cape Verde.
Date of text: 22 March 2016
Decree-Law No. 11/2014 approving the Animal Identification, Registration and Circulation Scheme.
Date of text: 14 May 2014

Mar

Legislative Decree No. 14/2010 establishing the Maritime Code of Cape Verde.
Date of text: 15 November 2010
Law No. 44/VI/2004 on the maritime State Property.
Date of text: 12 June 2004
Decree-Law No. 59/2021 establishing structure, organization and functioning of the Ministry of the Sea (MM).
Date of text: 29 September 2021
Law No. 118/IX/2021 approving the legislative authorization to the Government to proceed with the approval of the General Legal Regime of Port Jurisdiction Zones.
Date of text: 11 February 2021
Decree-Law No. 69/2020 creating the Authority of the Special Economic Zone of Maritime Economy in São Vicente (AZEEMSV).
Date of text: 17 September 2020

Protección social

Law No. 131/V/2001 on the Basic Law of Social Protection.
Date of text: 22 January 2001
Decree-Law No. 33/2022 establishing the social income for emergency inclusion.
Date of text: 27 July 2022
Decree-Law No. 41/2020 creating the Social Inclusion Income.
Date of text: 02 April 2020
Resolution No. 28/2022 approving the adoption of public policy measures to strengthen the resilience of the country's oil/energy and food systems.
Date of text: 25 March 2022
Resolution No. 25/2013 creating the National Committee for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour (CNPETI).
Date of text: 22 February 2013

Agua

Legislative Decree No. 3/2015 approving the Water and Sanitation Code (CAS).
Date of text: 19 October 2015
Decree-Law No. 49/2021 approving the General Bases for the concession of the management, exploration and distribution of water resources for irrigation.
Date of text: 10 June 2021
Resolution No. 90/2020 creating a special Working Group to monitor the entire installation process of the Inter-municipal Water Supply and Sanitation Company on the island of Santo Antão, "Águas de Santo Antão, SA (AdSA, SA)".
Date of text: 01 July 2020
Decree-Law No. 33/2020 creating the irrigation Company "Água de Rega (ADR), S.A.".
Date of text: 23 March 2020
Decree-Law No. 26/2016 establishing Tariff Policy for the Water and Sanitation Sector.
Date of text: 12 April 2016

Especies silvestres y ecosistemas

Decree-Law No. 3/2003 establishing the legal regime for the management of protected areas.
Date of text: 24 February 2003
Decree-Law No. 67/2021 establishing structure, organization and functioning of the Ministry of Tourism and Transport (MTT).
Date of text: 05 October 2021
Decree-Law No. 22/2020 establishing the Tourism Utility Statute Regime and defining the criteria and requirements for its attribution, revocation, expiry and renewal.
Date of text: 13 March 2020
Law No. 25/IX/2018 on the legislative authorization to the Government to approve the special legal regime for the protection and conservation of sea turtles.
Date of text: 28 February 2018
Decree-Law No. 33/2006 declassifying Santa Maria Island from being a national protected area.
Date of text: 19 June 2006

Miscelanea

Decree-Law No. 54/99 establishing the basic law for the Electricity System of Cape Verde.
Date of original text: 30 August 1999 (20 February 2006)
Law No. 85/IX/2020 approving the Legal Regime for the Protection and Valorization of Cultural Heritage.
Date of text: 20 April 2020
Law No. 83/IX/2020 establishing Exceptional and Temporary Measures to Respond to the Epidemiological Situation Caused by Coronavirus Sars-Cov-2 and Covid Disease-19.
Date of text: 04 April 2020
Law No. 77/IX/2020 creating the Council for the Prevention of Corruption (CPC).
Date of text: 23 March 2020
Decree-Law No. 34/2022 authorizing Electra S.A. to proceed with the dissolution of Electra Sul and Electra Norte, and authorizes the constitution of new public limited companies, through a simple spin-off of Electra S.A.
Date of text: 27 July 2022

Acuerdos Internacionales

Decree No. 9/2022 approving the Trade Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Cape Verde and the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco.
Date of text: 30 May 2022
Decree No. 12/2022 approving the Agreement on Merchant Marine sector between the Government of the Republic of Cape Verde and the Government of Morocco.
Date of text: 30 May 2022
Decree No. 11/2022 approving the Agreement for Cooperation in Marine Fisheries between the Government of the Republic of Cape Verde and the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco.
Date of text: 30 May 2022