Legislation in force

Of the forest heritage and wild fauna and their contraventions

The purpose of the Environmental Law is to establish the principles that govern environmental policy and the basic standards to regulate the State’s environmental management. As well as, the actions of citizens and society in general, in order to protect the environment and contribute to achieving the country’s sustainable development goals.

This Law aims to:

a) Establish the principles and general regulations for the protection, increase and sustainable development of the nation’s forest heritage.

b) To control the resources of the forest heritage by means of the established regulations and the competent bodies and agencies.

c) Promote and encourage reforestation for economic, protection or social purposes, as well as silvicultural management in plantations and natural forests.

d) Conserve the resources of biological diversity associated with forest ecosystems.

e) Protect forests against clearing, irrational logging, forest fires, free grazing, pests and diseases, as well as other actions that may affect them.

f) Regulate the multiple and sustainable use of the forest heritage and promote the rational use of non-wood forest products.

The purpose of this Decree-Law is to develop the basic principles established in Article 17 of the Constitution of the Republic and the Law for the Protection of the Environment and the Rational Use of Natural Resources, in relation to terrestrial waters, both surface and underground.

The purpose of this Decree-Law is to establish applicable violations in environmental matters, without prejudice to the provisions in force or those that are established from time to time, in relation to certain sectors of environmental protection.

The purpose of this Decree-Law is to establish the provisions for the delimitation, protection and sustainable use of the coastal zone and its protection zone, in accordance with the principles of the integrated management of the coastal zone.

«The Prioritized Zone for Conservation Includes World Heritage, plus the expansion areas of the walls up to the Paseo del Prado, including its two sidewalks and the Parque de la Fraternidad, and to the north, the coastal strip of the Malecón in Havana its two sidewalks, from the Castillo de la Punta to the Maceo Park, including from it, to the south along Calle San Lázaro on both sidewalks until it intersects again with the Castillo de la Punta ”.

This Decree-Law aims to establish the bases that govern the conservation and access to biological diversity, as well as to define the legal framework of the actions carried out by all natural and legal persons, national and foreign, that in the national territory have access to biological diversity.

This standard establishes the sound level measurement method used as an indicator of environmental noise together with possible forecast models and maximum permissible and tolerable levels in habitable areas, both inside the home and in surrounding urbanized areas.

The objective of this regulation is to establish, for the national territory, the requirements and technical procedures of biological safety that must be fulfilled in the facilities, in which the use of animals and plants with biological risk is made.

This Regulation aims to establish, for the national territory, the requirements and technical and administrative procedures of biological safety that must be fulfilled in the facilities, in which use of biological agents and their products, organisms and fragments of these with genetic information is made. , that affect or may affect man, animals and plants, taking into account the official list of biological agents and the classification of facilities, both established in current legislation.