Subsoil Type of Legal Artefact Archives

Format for Mining Concessions (Ministerial Agreement 533-RN-MC-2006), approved on 4 January 2006, published in the Gazette No. 36, dated 20 February 2006

Special Law on Mining Exploration and Exploitation (No. 387), approved on 26 June 2001, published in the Gazette No. 151, dated 13 August 2001

Regulations under Law No. 387, Special Law on Mining Exploration and Exploitation, Decree No. 119-2001, approved on 18 December 2001, published in the Gazette No. 4, dated 7 January 2002

Regulation establishing Rules for the Discharge of Waste Water (Decreto No. 21-2017), approved on 28 November 2017, published in the Gazette No. 229, dated 30 November 2017

Law on the Environment and Naturual Resources (No. 217), approved on 27 March 1996, published in the Gazette No. 105, dated 6 June 1996

Special Law on Crimes against the Environmental and Natural Resources (No. 559), approved on 26 October 2005, published in the Gazette No. 225, dated 21 November 2005

General Water Law (No. 260), published in the Gazette No. 169, dated 4 September 2007

Environmental Evaluation System of Permits and Authorizations on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (Decree No. 20-2017), published in Gazette No. 228, dated 29 November 2017

Law on the Creation of Nicaraguan Mining Companies (No. 953), approved on 21 June 2017, published in the Gazette No. 127, dated 6 July 2017

Law on Access to Public Information (No. 621), dated 16 May 2007, published in the Gazette on 22 June 2007