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National Environmental Policy of Myanmar 2019

The Policy provides long-term guidance for government organizations, civil society, the private sector and development partners on the achievement of environmental protection and sustainable development objectives in Myanmar. This Policy builds on Myanmar’s 1994 National Environment Policy, the 1997 Myanmar Agenda 21, the 2009 National Sustainable Development Strategy, the 2008 Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the 2012 Environmental Conservation Law, the 2015 National Comprehensive Development Plan and the 2018 Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Myanmar
Issuing agency/parties
  • The Union of Myanmar
Language
  • English
  • Burmese
Formal type of document Policy
Alternative/short title NEP 2019
Topics Environment and natural resources policy and administration
License

No license given

Copyright To be determined
Status Adopted, validated, in effect
Version date (of draft) March 29, 2019
Adoption date/Enacted/Promulgation date/Signing date June 5, 2019
Effective/Enforced Date June 5, 2019
Publication reference website of President Office of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar https://www.president-office.gov.mm/en/?q=briefing-room/speeches-and-remarks/2019/06/07/id-9394
Links to source http://www.ecd.gov.mm/sites/default/files/Law%20PDF/NEP.pdf, https://www.mm.undp.org/content/myanmar/en/home/library/environment_energy/national-environmental-policy-of-myanmar.html
Date uploaded January 13, 2020, 07:25 (UTC)
Date modified February 3, 2020, 03:08 (UTC)