UNEP would like to thank the World Resources Institute, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University and the University of Strathclyde for their invaluable assistance with the collation of these laws, as well as its long-standing partner FAOLEX.

 

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| 2024 |
Chad
Loi n° 23/CNT/2024 du 15 octobre 2024 portant protection de l’environnement

Aux termes du Titre I, l'environnement constitue en République du Tchad un patrimoine national faisant partie intégrante du patrimoine mondial. Sa conservation, sa protection et l'amélioration de ses ressources sont d'intérêt général et résultent d'une politique dont l'élaboration et l'application incombent à l'Etat. Tout Tchadien, tout habitant au Tchad a droit à un environnement sain dans les...

Legislation
| 2024 |
Mauritius
The Environment Act (No. 3 of 2024).

This Act, divided into eighteen Parts, and consisting of 151 sections, provides for a modern legislative framework that ensures better protection, management and conservation of the environment. The Act defines the following relevant terms: accredited laboratory, to provide environmental data and conduct analyses of environmental samples; Central Water Authority; circular economy; climate change...

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Impacts, Plastic waste, Waste, Circular economy, Pollutants, Hazardous waste, Integrated coastal zone management, Dumping, Open dumping
Legislation
| 2024 |
Cabo Verde
Law No. 43/X/2024 amending Law No. 22/X/2023 on the Legal Regime for the commercialization, importation, distribution and production of single-use plastic.

This Law establishes the amendment of articles 3, 4 and 26 of the Legal Regime for the Marketing, Import, Distribution and Production of Single-Use Plastic materials and objects produced with plastic materials. Amended articles deal with placing on the market, possession of plastic materials and objects for the purpose of sale; requirements for the list of usable plastic objects and standards...

Regulation
| 2023 |
Czechia
Decree on the implementation of certain provisions of the Act on limiting the impact of certain plastic products on the environment.

This Decree of the Ministry of Environment, which is composed of nine articles and six Annexes, establishes, in accordance with the legislation of the European Community: (a) scope and method of keeping records of selected plastic products placed on the market by the manufacturer and reporting data from these records; (b) the minimum scope and method of educational activities of the manufacturer...

Regulation
| 2023 |
Solomon Islands
Environment (Single Use Plastic Ban) Regulations 2023.

These Regulations prohibit the importation, manufacturing and distribution, supply and sales of single use plastic products, and impose penalty for the contravention to this prohibition. The provisions of this Regulations shall be enforced by the environment officers, customs officers, police officers, enforcement officers, authorised officers of the Solomon Islands Maritime Authority, and...

Legislation
| 2023 |
Mauritius
The Waste Management and Resource Recovery Act, no. 3 of 2023.

This Act, consisting of 55 articles and divided into nine Parts, provides for a regulatory framework in order to ensure the environmentally safe and sound management of solid and hazardous wastes and a sustainable waste management system through the adoption of a circular economy approach focusing on waste reduction, reuse, material recovery and recycling. The Act concerns: commercial waste; waste...

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Waste, Waste management, Hazardous waste, Domestic waste, Recycling, Resource recovery, Waste prevention, Circular economy, Reuse, Waste minimization, Impacts, Waste management facilities
Legislation
| 2023 |
Cabo Verde
Law No. 22/X/2023 establishing the Legal Regime for the commercialization, importation, distribution and production of single-use plastic.

This Law, consisting of 27 articles and one Annex, establishes the Legal Regime for the Marketing, Import, Distribution and Production of Single-Use Plastic materials and objects produced with plastic materials. This Law applies to all sectors of economic and industrial activity and to all economic agents engaged in both wholesale and retail trade, formal or informal, and to all stages of...

Regulation
| 2023 |
Ireland
Repealed
Circular Economy (Environmental Levy) (Plastic Bag) Regulations 2023 (S.I. No. 343/2023).

These Regulations establish that from the 1st day of July 2023 there shall be charged, levied and paid a levy (which shall be known as an ‘environmental levy’ and in these Regulations referred to as ‘the levy’) in respect of the supply to customers, at the point of sale to them of goods or products to be placed in the bags, or otherwise of plastic bags in or at any supermarket, service station or...