Decree-Law No. 8/2021 establishing the Legal Regime for Soil Classification and Qualification. Country/Territory Timor-Leste Document type Legislation Date 2021 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Jornal da República, Série I, No. 27. Subject Land & soil Keyword Subdivision of land Land-use planning Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Classification/declassification Urban land Agricultural land Procedural matters Geographical area Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Indian Ocean, Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States, South-Eastern Asia Entry into force notes This Decree-Law enters into force the day after its publication. Abstract This Decree-Law, consisting of 30 articles divided into three Chapters, establishes the Legal Regime for Soil Classification and Qualification. It establishes the criteria for classification and qualification of soils and the qualification categories of rural and urban soils within the national territory. These apply to the procedures for drawing up, amending and revising municipal territorial plans, in accordance the Basic Law for Land Use Planning. Administrative easements and public utility restrictions that affect the discipline of occupation, use and transformation of land from their own legal frameworks and which have territorial impact are duly integrated and represented in the territorial municipal plans. In areas covered by administrative easements and public utility restrictions, the respective regimes prevail over other provisions of the land use regimes of the categories to which they belong. Soil classification represents a planning option by which a fundamental distinction is made between the classes of rustic soil and urban soil, considering the nature, functions, potential and basic destination of the soil, which are defined in the municipal territorial. Full text Portuguese Website www.mj.gov.tl