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Decree No. 7/2017 approving the Statutes of the Water and Sanitation Fund (FASA).

Country/Territory
Cabo Verde
Document type
Regulation
Date
2017
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Boletim Oficial, Série I, No. 76.
Subject
Water
Keyword
Institution Special fund Freshwater resources management Water supply Authorization/permit Water quality standards Sustainable use
Geographical area
Africa, Atlantic Ocean Islands, North Atlantic, Sahel, Small Island Developing States, Western Africa
Entry into force notes
This Decree enters into force on the day after its publication.
Abstract

This Decree approves the Statute of the Water and Sanitation Fund (FASA). This Statute, consisting of 45 articles divided into seven Chapters, establishes composition, duties and responsibilities of the above mentioned Fund, as a public institute integrated in the State Indirect Administration, whose function is to support political, legislative and institutional reform in the water and sanitation sector. It also establishes a regulatory mechanisms through the financing of studies, projects and works that promote the expansion and improvement of water supply and sanitation services and institutional strengthening of the organizations that intervene in the sector, encourage the implementation of good governance and the sustainable environmental sustainability, with an emphasis on transparency and accountability, in order to make water and sanitation projects attractive to the most diverse funding and donor agencies, to provide financial and technical support for the transformation and strengthening of service operators public water and sanitation to ensure investments to improve the quality of existing water and sanitation infrastructure, to support measures to universalize public water and sanitation services, which categorize the actions, studies and investments that the FASA can finance.

Full text
Portuguese
Website
www.legis-palop.org

References - Legislation

Implements

Legislative Decree No. 3/2015 approving the Water and Sanitation Code (CAS).

Legislation | Cabo Verde | 2015

Keyword: Framework law, Basic legislation, Freshwater resources management, Institution, Water supply, Water rights, Irrigation, Right to water, Authorization/permit, Effluent waste water/discharge, Freshwater pollution, Offences/penalties, Water quality standards, Surface water, Sustainable use, Groundwater, Royalties/fees, Pollution control, Human rights

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Repealed by

Decree-Law No. 59/2020 approving new Statutes of the Environment Fund, extinguishing the Water and Sanitation Fund and, furthermore, amending Legislative Decree No. 14/97 of 1 July

Legislation | Cabo Verde | 2020

Keyword: Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Monitoring, Environmental planning, Environmental standards, Special fund, Policy/planning, Standards, Protection of environment, Sustainable development

Source: FAO, FAOLEX