ai) Legislative and regulatory provisions on requirements for reporting
to legislative and local council bodies and the public on the profits
of extractive industries, the revenues that the authorities collected
from extractive industries;
aj) Information on the mechanisms put in place for the judicious and
transparent administration of the revenues collected;
ak) Information on reporting to parliament and the public on how the
revenues received are being managed and utilized;
al) Establishment of standards that guarantee reasonable revenue
sharing arrangement between national government and local
authorities in the affected areas, to ensure that the people meaningfully
benefit from the operations of multinational companies engaged in
extractive industries, and to cooperate with other State Parties in
eliminating foreign economic exploitation.
In relation to Article 24 the state report should include the
following information:
Background
a) Information on how the rights under Article 24 of the African
Charter are given recognition in the laws of the country as required
under Article 1 of the Charter
b) Information on guarantees for judicial enforcement of the right to
environment as per Article 1 of the African Charter which requires
giving effect to the rights in the Charter;
c) The applicable laws and regulations, including administrative laws,
on the protection of the environment, as well as the nature of
environmental issues that the applicable legal regime covers;
d) The institutions and regulatory bodies responsible for inspection,
monitoring and enforcement of environmental laws, as well as their
competencies;
Implementation
e) The mechanisms put in place for undertaking or overseeing the
conducting of internationally accepted environmental risk assessment
prior to implementation of industrial scale economic projects;
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