Complementary Law No. 0005 on the Environmental Protection Code of Amapá State. Country/Territory Brazil Territorial subdivision Amapá Document type Legislation Date 1994 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen., Water Keyword Framework law Institution Classification/declassification Ecosystem preservation EIA Environmental planning Environmental standards Hazardous substances Hazardous waste Land-use planning Monitoring Noise pollution Pollution control Protected area Protection of habitats Public land Research Soil pollution/quality Solid waste Special fund Use restrictions Waste management Zoning Policy/planning Standards Protection of environment Groundwater Water quality standards Surface water Freshwater pollution Geographical area Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic Entry into force notes This Law enters into force on the day of its publication. Abstract This Complementary Law, consisting of 124 articles is structured in nine main Titles and several Chapters. The State Environmental Policy comprises the set of administrative and technical directives with the purpose of guiding governmental actions for the rational use of environmental resources, as well as for the preservation, improvement and recovery of environmental quality conducive to life, ensuring conditions for socio-economic development, security interests and protection of the dignity of human life, observing the following basic principles: governmental action in maintaining the ecological balance, considering the environment as a public patrimony to be necessarily secured and protected, with a view to collective use; rational use and exploitation of natural resources so as not to jeopardize the ecological balance; plan and monitor the use of natural resources; protect of ecosystems, including specially protected territorial areas and their representative components through planning, zoning and control of potentially or effectively degrading activities; monitoring the state of environmental quality; recovery of degraded areas; protection of areas threatened with degradation; promote environmental education at all levels, etc. Full text Portuguese Website www.al.ap.gov.br References - Legislation Implemented by Law No. 1.089 providing for the the revision of the State Planning for Coastal Management. Legislation | Brazil | 2007 Keyword: Basic legislation, Coastal zone management, Environmental planning, Classification/declassification, Ecosystem preservation, EIA, Institution, Land-use planning, Monitoring, Pollution control, Research, Soil pollution/quality, Policy/planning Source: FAO, FAOLEX Amended by Complementary Law No. 0091 adding provisions to Complementary Law No. 005 of 18 August 1994 on the Environmental Protection Code of Amapá State. Legislation | Brazil | 2015 Keyword: Authorization/permit, Pollution control, Classification/declassification, Ecosystem preservation, EIA, Environmental planning, Environmental standards, Research, Policy/planning, Standards, Protection of environment Source: FAO, FAOLEX