Executive Regulation for the Environmental Law for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification.
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Type of law
Regulation
Abstract
This Executive Regulation is enacted in accordance with the Environmental Law. The Executive Regulation shall apply to all persons and all vegetation cover lands including degraded lands, as well as lands and coasts within the territory of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
A person must obtain a license, permit, or approval (according to the classification specified by the Center) to allocate or use the vegetation cover lands for activities (art.10). Article 3 provides for the scope of work of the National Center for Vegetation Cover and Combating Desertification, including: (1) Inventorying and classifying vegetation cover lands; (2) Inventorying and classifying desertified lands; (3) Developing and protecting vegetation cover lands, their living and non–living content, and supervising their quantitative and qualitative improvements; (4) Supervising the rehabilitation of desertified sites and degraded vegetation lands; (5) Sustainably establishing, investing in, and managing the forests, grazing pastures, national, terrestrial, and geological parks, in accordance with adopted systematic procedures; (6) Managing the Center's nurseries, herbariums, and seed banks for the production of seedlings for wild and coastal plants (plants and mangrove trees); (7) Regulating activities pertaining to the local plant genetic resources and their vegetative or reproductive parts; (8) Regulating grazing in vegetation cover lands; etc.
The Center shall develop and implement a national plan for sustainable management of forests. Grazing is prohibited in the following areas: a. Protected forests. b. Degraded forests designated by the Center. c. Forests designated by the Center for development considerations or research purposes. d. Reforested forests. It is prohibited to perform any activity in forest lands that were subject to fires without a permit from the Center.
The Executive Regulation further makes provisions for: surveying, inventorying and classifying vegetation cover lands, controls pertaining to rangelands, controls pertaining to national, wild, and geological parks, investing in vegetation cover development activities, offences ad penalties, etc.
A person must obtain a license, permit, or approval (according to the classification specified by the Center) to allocate or use the vegetation cover lands for activities (art.10). Article 3 provides for the scope of work of the National Center for Vegetation Cover and Combating Desertification, including: (1) Inventorying and classifying vegetation cover lands; (2) Inventorying and classifying desertified lands; (3) Developing and protecting vegetation cover lands, their living and non–living content, and supervising their quantitative and qualitative improvements; (4) Supervising the rehabilitation of desertified sites and degraded vegetation lands; (5) Sustainably establishing, investing in, and managing the forests, grazing pastures, national, terrestrial, and geological parks, in accordance with adopted systematic procedures; (6) Managing the Center's nurseries, herbariums, and seed banks for the production of seedlings for wild and coastal plants (plants and mangrove trees); (7) Regulating activities pertaining to the local plant genetic resources and their vegetative or reproductive parts; (8) Regulating grazing in vegetation cover lands; etc.
The Center shall develop and implement a national plan for sustainable management of forests. Grazing is prohibited in the following areas: a. Protected forests. b. Degraded forests designated by the Center. c. Forests designated by the Center for development considerations or research purposes. d. Reforested forests. It is prohibited to perform any activity in forest lands that were subject to fires without a permit from the Center.
The Executive Regulation further makes provisions for: surveying, inventorying and classifying vegetation cover lands, controls pertaining to rangelands, controls pertaining to national, wild, and geological parks, investing in vegetation cover development activities, offences ad penalties, etc.
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Repealed
No
Source language
English
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No