Decree-Law No. 8/2021 establishing the Legal Regime for Soil Classification and Qualification. País/Territorio Timor-Leste Tipo de documento Legislación Fecha 2021 Fuente FAO, FAOLEX Fuente original Jornal da República, Série I, No. 27. Materia Tierra y suelos Palabra clave Subdivisión de tierras Manejo de tierras Procedimientos judiciales/procedimientos administrativos Clasificación/declasificación Terrenos urbanos Terrenos agrícolas Cuestiones de procedimiento Área geográphica Asia, Asia y Pacifico, Océano Índico, Países menos desarrollados, Pequeños estados insulares en desarrollo, Asia Sudoriental Entry into force notes This Decree-Law enters into force the day after its publication. Resumen 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. Texto completo Portugués Página web www.mj.gov.tl