Law No. 12.217 creating the Ceará Water Resources Management Company (COGERH). Pays/Territoire Brésil Sous-division territoriale Ceará Type du document Législation Date 1993 (2018) Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Eau Mot clé Institution Procédures judiciaires/procédures administratives Droits d'utilisation de l'eau Ouvrages Autorisation/permis Gestion des resources en eau douce Utilisation durable Aire géographique Amazone, Amériques, Amérique latine et Caraïbes, Atlantique Nord, Amérique du Sud, Atlantique Sud Entry into force notes This Law enters into force on the day of its publication. Résumé This Law, consisting of 11 articles divided into four Chapters, the Ceará Water Resources Management Company (COGERH). It establishes composition, duties and responsibilities of COGERH, entitled to manage the supply of the water resources in the surface and groundwater bodies of the State for monitoring water resources use. In particular, it aims to fulfill the following activities: develop studies to quantify the availability and demands of waters for multiple purposes; implement a system of information on water resources,in order to subsidize decision-making; develop actions to subsidize the improvement of legal support for the exercise of water management, embodied in Law No. 11.996 of 24 July 1992; develop actions that preserve water quality, according to the standards required for multiple uses; develop actions so that the Management of Water Resources is decentralized, participatory and integrated in relation to other natural resources; adopt the river basin as a base and consider the hydrographic cycle, in all its phases; perform other activities that, directly or indirectly are related to its objectives. Texte intégral Portugais Site web www2.al.ce.gov.br