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Palau - Country Profiles

Constitution of Palau.
Date of text: 1981

Policies

Palau Sustainable Tourism Strategy 2025-2028.
Date of text: 2025
The Palau Water Policy (2025-2045).
Date of text: 04 December 2024
Strategic Plan for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Prevention and Control 2025-2030.
Date of text: 01 April 2024
Palau National Environmental Management Strategy 2022-2030.
Date of text: 2023
Palau Development Plan 2023-2026.
Date of text: 2022

Legislation

Agricultural and rural development

Farm Loan Program Act (RPPL No. 9-13 2013).
Date of text: 20 August 2013

Cultivated plants

Biosecurity Act of 2014 (P.L. No. 9-58).
Date of text: 24 February 2016
Pesticides Regulations (Chapter 2401-33).
Date of text: 26 May 1996
Amendment to the Pesticides Regulations (Chapter 2401-33): General prohibitions and Miscellaneous.
Date of text: 12 March 1999

Disaster risk management

Executive Order No. 448 to establish the Project Steering Committee for the Disaster Resilient Clean Energy Financing.
Date of text: 28 May 2021
Executive Order No. 397: Adopting the 2016 Palau National Disaster and Risk Management Framework.
Date of text: 10 May 2017

Environment

Environmental Quality Protection Act (Title 24 - Division 1 - Chapter 1 - Subchapters I-IV).
Date of text: 1981 (1999)
Amendment to Protected Areas Network and Micronesia Challenge (RPPL 7-42 of 2008).
Date of text: 2008
Environmental Impact Statement Regulations (Chapter 2401-61).
Date of text: 26 May 1996
Air Pollution Control Regulations.
Date of text: 26 May 1996 (23 September 2021)
Plastic Bag Use Reduction Act (RPPL No. l0-14)
Date of text: 08 November 2017

Fisheries and aquaculture

Palau National Marine Sanctuary Act (RPPL No. 9-49 of 2015).
Date of text: 28 October 2015
Fishery Zone Law (Public Law No. 6-7-14).
Date of text: 02 December 1978
Act for banning the export of reef fish (RPPL No. 10-54 of 2017).
Date of text: 26 March 2020
Act for establishing a landing fee for transshipment of tuna or billfish caught outside of Palau (RPPL No. 10-57 of 2020).
Date of text: 24 March 2020
An Act to amend RPPL No. 9-49 and Titles 27 and 24 of the Palau National Code to rename the Environmental Impact Fee the Pristine Paradise Environmental Fee, provide additional time for its implementation, and for other related purposes (RPPL No. 10-02).
Date of text: 29 March 2017

Food and nutrition

Food and Drug Safety Act of 2009 (RPPL No. 8-13).
Date of text: 05 February 2010
Act on School Wellness and Nutrition Standards (RPPL No. 10-13 of 2017).
Date of text: 08 November 2017
Act to encourage the local production of fresh, local meat and seafood products (RPPL No. 10-37 of 2018).
Date of text: 12 June 2019
Republic of Palau Labeling Act (RPPL No. 9-56).
Date of text: 10 February 2016
Public Health, Safety and Welfare – Chapter 10 of Title 25 of the Palau National Code.
Date of text: 1966

Forestry

Koror State: KSPL No. K6-110-00 Mangroves Act.
Date of text: 29 March 2000

Land and soil

Act on administration and management of state public lands (RPPL No. 10-48 of 2019).
Date of text: 06 February 2020
Condominium Property Act of 2010 (RPPL No. 8-19).
Date of text: 17 November 2010
Executive Order No. 415 to amend Executive Order No. 271 to clarify the organization of the Bureau of Lands and Surveys.
Date of text: 18 June 2018
Executive Order No. 414 establishing an ad hoc task force to address issues surrounding the recent return of public lands throughout Palau, including especially those in Koror State.
Date of text: 16 April 2018
Earthmoving Regulations (Chapter 2401-1).
Date of text: 26 May 1996

Livestock

Biosecurity Act of 2014 (P.L. No. 9-58).
Date of text: 24 February 2016
Plant and Animal Control – Chapter 20 of Title 25 of the Palau National Code.
Date of text: 1966

Mineral resources and energy

Palau Energy Act (RPPL No. 9-54).
Date of text: 05 February 2016
An Act to amend Chapters 4, 6 and 7 of Title 37 of the Palau National Code conferring on the Palau Energy Administration regulatory authority concerning power production, and to implement additional determinations of the 2017 Palau Energy Summit and Paris Agreement Implementation Workshop (RPPL No. 10-23).
Date of text: 17 April 2018
Executive Order No. 448 to establish the Project Steering Committee for the Disaster Resilient Clean Energy Financing.
Date of text: 28 May 2021

Sea

Fishery Zone Law (Public Law No. 6-7-14).
Date of text: 02 December 1978
An Act to amend Section 1405 of Title 40 of the Palau National Code to restructure the cost, duration of validity, and classification of vessels for the tax assessed for foreign owned private yachts and cruise ships entering the Republic, and for other related purposes (RPPL NO. 10-38).
Date of text: 11 July 2019
Open Ship Registry Act (RPPL No. 8-17).
Date of text: 20 September 2010
Subchapter III: Fishery Zones of Chapter 1: Fishery Zones and Regulation of Foreign Fishing
Date of text: 1990
Fishery Zones and Regulation of Foreign Fishing (Title 27 of Palau National Code, Division 1, Chapter 1).
Date of text: 0000

Water

Water Abstraction Act (RPPL No. 9-19 of 2013).
Date of text: 29 November 2013
Executive Order No. 401 Establishing Water Use and Conservation Policies.
Date of text: 28 June 2017
Utilities Consolidation Act (RPPL No. 9-04 2013).
Date of text: 23 May 2013
Water & Sewer Corporation Act of 2010 (RPPL No. 8-31).
Date of text: 2010
Chapter 2401-51 Public Water Supply and Drinking Water Regulations.
Date of text: 14 January 2021

Wild species and ecosystems

Act on Access and Benefit Sharing (RPPL No. 10-28 of 2018).
Date of text: 22 August 2018
Palau National Marine Sanctuary Act (RPPL No. 9-49 of 2015).
Date of text: 28 October 2015
Endangered Species Act of 1975 (Chapter 10 of Title 24 of Palau National Code).
Date of text: 1975
Responsible Tourism Education Act of 2018 (RPPL No. 1-30).
Date of text: 25 October 2018
Moratorium on taking of any hawksbill turtle (RPPL No. 10-24 of 2017).
Date of text: 17 April 2018

Miscellaneous

Foreign Investment Act 2014 (CAP. 1).
Date of text: 2014
Executive Order No. 419 Establishing a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
Date of text: 28 December 2018
Standards for Tourism (RPPL No. 9-53 of 2015)
Date of text: 16 November 2015

International Agreements

Convention for the Conservations and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific.
Date of text: 05 September 2000
Federated States of Micronesia Arrangement for Regional Fisheries Access.
Date of text: 14 November 1994
Palau Arrangement for the Management of the Western Pacific Purse Seine Fishery.
Date of text: 02 October 1992

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