Prime Minister's Decree on Water Resources. Country/Territory Italy Document type Regulation Date 1996 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana No. 62, 14 March 1996, Ordinary Supplement No. 47, pp. 1-54. Subject Water Keyword Water supply Water charges Water shortage/drought Water quality standards Policy/planning Priorities River basin institution EIA Geographical area Alps, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Mediterranean, Southern Europe Abstract Focal point of this Decree is the equal distribution and rational utilization of water resources. To these ends it supplements the provisions made by Decision of the Intergovernmental Committee for Water Protection of 4 February 1977 and establishes the guiding principles on matter pertaining to the following: Full text Italian References - Legislation Implements Act No. 36 on Water Resources, 1994 (Galli). Legislation | Italy | 1994 Keyword: Framework law, Basic legislation, Freshwater resources management, Water supply, Sewerage, Water abstraction, Priorities, Institution, Non-governmental entity, Effluent waste water/discharge, Water charges, Pollution control, Freshwater pollution Source: FAO, FAOLEX