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
Subsoil Type of Legal Artefact Archives
1996 Law on the Environment and Natural Resources (No. 217)
Law on the Environment and Naturual Resources (No. 217), approved on 27 March 1996, published in the Gazette No. 105, dated 6 June 1996
Guatemalan Environmental Protection Law
Law on the Protection and Improvement of the Environment, Decree No. 68-86, 5 December 1986 (Spanish)
2018 Draft Bill on Indigenous Consultation Procedures
National Congress of Guatemala, “Iniciativa que dispone aprobar ley que garantiza el derecho de consulta de buena fe, libre, previa e informada a pueblos indígenas”, dated 7 August 2018
1998 Honduran Mining Law
General Mining Law, Decree No. 292-98 and published in the Official Gazzette No. 28, 785 on 6 February 1999.
1990 Honduran Law on Municipalities
Law on Municipalities, Decress No. 134-90 and published in the Official Gazzette No. 26, 292
Government Version of Draft Consultation Law
Proposal: Draft of Framework Law on the Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consultation of Indigenous and Afro-Honduran Peoples (Spanish)
2002 Guatemalan Municipal Code
Municipal Code, Decree No. 12-2002
2013 Honduran Mining Law
General Mining Law, Decree No. 238-2012 and published in the Official Gazette No. 33, 088 on 2 April 2013.
1997 Guatemalan Mining Laws and Regulations (English)
Mining Law, Decree No. 48-97, approved 11 June 1997 and published in the Central American Journal on 17 July 1997, and Regulations thereunder, Government Decree No. 176-01, 11 May 2001


