Regulation on Clean Development Mechanism Projects. Country/Territory Iran, Islamic Republic of Document type Regulation Date 2009 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Official Journal No.18881, 23 December 2009. Subject Environment gen. Keyword Climate change Authorization/permit Business/industry/corporations Monitoring Geographical area Asia, Caspian Sea, Middle East, Near East and North Africa, Persian Gulf, Southern Asia Abstract The Regulation, which consists of 8 articles, provides for clean development mechanism projects based on article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol (1997) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Department of Environment (DoE) is the responsible authority to accept and monitor the clean development projects. All companies and agencies willing to plan and implement the clean development projects should send their plan to the afore-mentioned Department which shall assess the plan and announce its final decision within thirty days; if the plan meets the requirements, the said Department shall issue a license to start the project. Full text Farsi Website www.dastour.ir