Decree No. 6/2017 approving the Regulation on the Environmental Fund.

This Decree approves the Regulation on the Environmental Fund. This Regulation, consisting of 27 articles divided into five Chapters, aims at regulating the activities of the above mentioned Fund, as a legal entity governed by public law, whose mission includes the collection, management and application of financial resources to support the implementation and promotion of policies, plans, programmes, projects and other activities aimed at the protection, conservation and preservation of natural and environmental resources. This Fund also includes those activities aimed at preventing or rehabilitating damages produced in the environment, and contributing to National sustainable development. Composition, duties and structure of the Environmental Fund as well as, revenues and expenses, accounting and reporting procedures are specified in the text.