Michael Kirk (1996):
Land Tenure Development and Divestiture in Lao P.D.R.

Appendix 2 : (Contents)

I. Information on the Consultancy

1. Terms of Reference

2. Itinerary of the Consultancy in Laos PDR

3. Preliminary Findings

4. Preliminary Findings of a related consultancy on "Land Tenure, Use Rights and Titling of Agricultural and Forestry Land" for NAWACOP-Project (Graham Gaston)

5. Short-Term Consultancy on "Land Tenure, Use Rights and Titling...", Report 1: General Findings (Graham Gaston)

6. Short-Term Consultancy on "Land Tenure, Use Rights and Titling...", Report 2: Specific Suggestions (Graham Gaston)

II. Resource Tenure Related Legislation

7. Constitution of the Lao PR

8. Property Law

9. Decree on Land (No. 99)

10. Decree Concerning Land of Persons who fled Lao PDR (No. 129)

11. Decree on Land Tax

12. Decree on the Management and Use of Forests and Forest Land (No. 169)

13. Decree regarding the Allocation of Land and Forest Lands for Tree Plantation and Forest Protection (No. 186)

14. Decree on Document Registration

15. Temporary Provisions of the Management and Use of Agricultural Land in Lao PDR (No. 22)

III. Environmental Legislation

16. Water Law (Draft)

17. Adoption of the Tropical Forestry Action Plan

18. Industrial Waste Discharge Regulation

19. Decree on the Management and Protection of Wild Animals, Fisheries and on Hunting and Fishing (No. 188)

20. Decree on the Establishment of National Biodiversity Conservation Areas (No. 194) (-missing-)

21. Draft Bill for the Electricity Act

22. MoU between Lao PDR and S.P. Hydropower Company Limited, Concession for Namtha Hydropower project (in part)

IV. Further Legal and Regulatory Framework

23. Contract Law

24. Law on Inheritance

25. Family Law

26. New Foreign Investment Law

27. Implementing Decree for the New Lao Foreign Investment Law (revised draft)

V. Implementing Regulations for Land Titling Procedures

28 Decree on the Organization of the Ministry of Finance

29. Provisional Ministerial Direction on Adjudication of Land Possession and Use Rights (No. 990)

30. Instruction of the MoF on the Implementation of the Decree n Land Tax (No. 50)

31. Household Sheet for Land Tax Collection

VI. Implementation of Resource Legislation and Coordination of Administration

32. National Agencies- Land Management and Administration: Responsibilities and Issues

33. Decree on the Rules of Civil service in the Lao PDR (No. 171)

34. Tasks, Duties and Rights of the Department of Forestry

35. Tasks, Duties and Rights of the Department of Forestry (rev. version from 1995)

36. Decree on the Organization and Administration of Villages (No. 102)

37. Guideline for Action to the Order No. 16 (on logging)

38. Order on Logging

39. Implementation guidelines on Modification of Logging Management Systems (Ref. No. 16)

40. Agreement of Long Kone Quarter on the Natural Resource Use Management (draft for Forest Management Contracts, Luang Prabang Province)

41. Basic Guiding Manual on Initial Land and Forest Allocation in Luang Prabang Province for Leading Committee and Technical Staff (1995)

42. Provincial Instruction on Implementation of the State Decree on Land and Land Taxation

43. Provincial Instruction on Land and Forest Allocation to the Local People, Sayabouri Province

44. Table for land and forest given in the village.... in Sayabouri district

45. Household Sheet

VII. Customary Rights

46. Order on Customary Rights (Draft, Version 5. April 1995)

47. Order on Customary Rights (Draft, no date different version)

VIII. Background Information on NGO and donor work

48. Open letter of NGOs to the Department of Forestry on Customary Rights

49. Internal NGO-discussion paper on Land Titling

50. NAWACOP-Project: Project Profile

51. FOMACOP-Project: Project Profile