Environmental Laws - SE

PD 198

Provincial Water Utilities Act of 1973

PD 281

Creation of Pasig River Development Authority

PD 424

Creation of the National Water Resources Council (NWRC)

PD 442

Labor Code of the Philippines

PD 552

Creation of the National Irrigation Administration

PD 522

Prescribing Sanitation Requirements for the operation of Establishments and facilities catering to Traveling Public

PD 601

Revised Coast Guard Law of 1974

PD 704

Fisheries Decree of 1975

PD 705

Revised Forestry Code of the Philippines

PD 825

Providing Penalty for Improper Disposal of Garbage

PD 856

Code on Sanitation of the Philippines

PD 972

Coal Development Act of 1976

PD 979

Marine Pollution Decree of 1976

PD 984

National Pollution Decree of 1976

PD 1067

Water Code of the Philippines

PD 1096

National Building Code of the Philippines

PD 1144

Creating the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority and Abolishing the Fertilizer Industry Authority

PD 1151

Philippine Environmental Policy (June 1977)

PD 1152

Philippine Environmental Code

PD 1160

Vesting Authority in Barangay Captains to Enforce Pollution and Environmental Control Laws

PD 1185

Fire Code of the Philippines

PD 1219

Coral Resources Development and Conservation Decree

PD 1586

Establishment of Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) System

RA 1364

Sanitary Engineering Law

RA 1378

Plumbing Law of the Philippines

RA 3720

An Act Creating the Food and Drugs Administration

RA 3844

Agricultural Land Reform Code of 1963

RA 3931

An Act Creating the Water and Air Pollution Control Commission (Pollution Control Law)

RA 4850

An Act Creating the Laguna Lake Development Authority

RA 6234

Creating the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System

RA 6425

Dangerous Drug Act of 1972

RA 6657

Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988

RA 6675

Generics Act of 1988

RA 6969

Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990

RA 7156

Mini-Hydro Law

RA 7160

Local Government Code of 1991

RA 7586

National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992

RA 7718

Build-Operate-Transfer Law

RA 7900

High Value Crops Development Act of 1995

RA 7907

Code of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines

RA 7924

An Act Creating the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority

RA 8041

National Water Crisis Act of 1995

RA 8293

Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines

RA 8435

Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act of 1997

RA 8550

Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998

RA 8749

Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999

RA 9003

Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

RA 9072

National Caves and Cave Resources Management and Protection Act

RA 9147

Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act of 2001

RA 9275

Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004

RA 9367

Biofuels Act of 2006

RA 9372

The Human Security Act of 2007

RA 9513

Renewable Energy Act of 2008

RA 9729

Climate Change Act of 2009

RA 10068

Organic Agriculture Act of 2010

RA 10121

Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010

RA 10354

Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012

RA 10747

Rare Diseases Act of the Philippines

Stockholm Convention

A 2001 agreement among 127 nations concerning 12 chemicals to be banned, phased out, or reduced.

Vienna Convention

A framework convention adopted in 1985 to regulate activities, especially emissions of CFCs, that damage the ozone layer.

Basel Convention

A treaty developed in 1989 by the UN Environment Program to restrict the international transport of hazardous waste. It allows couries to export hazardous waste only with the prior informed consent of the importing country as well as of any countries that the waste passes through in transit.

Montreal Protocol

(1987) phase-out of ozone depleting substances

Kyoto Protocol

controlling global warming by setting greenhouse gas emissions targets for developed countries

Article 1

National Territory

Helsinki Convention

the first time that marine environmental issues were addressed; countries signed papers to protect the marine life and the Baltic Sea Area

Helsinki Protocol

dealt with emissions of sulfur compounds

Rotterdam Convention

1998 - United Nations treaty designed to promote shared responsibilities with the import and exportation of hazardous chemicals and pesticides

Art 2 Sec 15

Right to health

Art 2 Sec 16

Right to nature (healthful ecology)

Art 12 Sec 2

Natural Resources

Art 12 Sec 5

Right of the Indigenous Cultural Community to their Ancestral Lands

Art 13 Sec 7

Rights of fishermen