Law No. 01/99/NA on the Processing Industry. Country/Territory Lao, People's Dem. Rep. Document type Legislation Date 1999 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Agricultural & rural development, Forestry Keyword Processing/handling Subsidy/incentive Business/industry/corporations Offences/penalties Agro-forestry Geographical area Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, Least Developed Countries, South-Eastern Asia Entry into force notes This Law enters into force ninety days from the date of the promulgating Decree (26 April 1999). Abstract This Law establishes principles, regulations, and measures relating to the establishment, operations, and administration of industrial and handicrafts processing activities in order to expand the processing and handicrafts industry, [and] interrelate the processing industry with agro-forestry, transform the natural economy of farmers into a goods-based economy, interrelate the economic structures of the agro-forestry, industry and services [sectors] to increase the living standards of the multi- Full text English Website www.mfa.gov.sg