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; 16 |  African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights