REGULATIONS TO IMPLEMENT GOVERNMENT ORDER TO HALT AND SCREEN GRANTING ELC 7 May 2012: DOCUMENT  COLLECTION AND UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION

Following is the translation of the documents obtained from the Ministry of Land Management 

 

Kingdom of Cambodia

Nation Religion King

 

Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction

Manual On Implementation of Order 01 dated 07 May, 2012 On Measures Strengthening and Increasing Effectiveness of ELC Management

 

Prepared and Documented by Secretariat for Implementing Order 01 BB

2012

Content

 

1- Order 01BB on the Measures Strengthening and Increasing the Effectiveness of the Management of Economic Land Concessions (ELC) dated 7 May 2012.

 

2- Notification 666 dated 26 June 2012 on Request in principle for land registration in target areas to implement the Order 01BB dated 07 May 2012 on Measures Strengthening and Increasing Effectiveness of ELC Management.

 

3- Notification 684 dated 02 July 2012 on request in principle to limit the land size which is actually cultivated and which is to be donated as ownership to the people.

 

4- CLP instruction 015 SNN/MLMUPC/CLP dated 4 July 2012 on the implementation of RGC Order 01 on the Measures Reinforcing and Increasing the Effectiveness of the Management of Economic Land Concessions (ELC) dated 7 May 2012 In relation with the indigenous communities‟ areas, jungle, semi-jungle, Prey Long forest areas, national defense base and historical and cultural areas.

 

5- Instruction 017 SNN/CLP dated 13 July 2012 on the implementation of Royal Government Order 001 dated 7th May 2012 on Strengthening and Increasing the Effectiveness of ELC Management in relation with roads, railways, paths, lakes, rivers, beaches and public service sites.

 

6- Instruction 018-SNN/KKD dated 20 July 2012 on Land identification, People Identification and Issuance of Primary Land Title The implementation of Royal Government Order 01 dated 7th May 2012on Reinforcing and Increasing the Effectiveness of ELC Management.

 

7- Instruction 019-SNN/KKD dated 26 July 2012 on the strengthening of the effectiveness of the implementation of the existing policy by new actions of the RGC with regard to land reform.

 

8- Instruction 020-SNN/KKD dated 26 July 2012 on the implementation of RGC Order 01BB dated 7 May 2012 in relation with areas of indigenous communities.

 

9- Instruction 022 SNN/KKD dated 02 August 2012 on certification of the civil status and determination of the poverty status by the local authorities, in order to be able to implement Social Land Concession (SLC) Programs in the framework of the implementation of existing policies by new actions with regard to land reform.

 

10- Notification 024 KKD/SCN dated 05 September 2012 on the issuance of final ownership title to citizens on land surveyed during the campaign implementing existing policies by new actions with regard to land reform, following the RGC Order 01.

 

11- Notification 997 dated 07 September 2012 on provision of final ownership right to the citizens on land already surveyed for implementing existing policies by new actions with regard to land reform.

 

12- Notification 1446 dated 05 December 2012 on request in principle to register parcels excluded (leopard skin parcels) as State land with the PSLMC as the Representative.

 

CONTENT

 

Unofficial Translation

Kingdom of Cambodia

Nation Religion King

Royal Government of Cambodia

 

Order 01BB on the Measures Strengthening and Increasing the Effectiveness of the Management of Economic Land Concessions (ELC) dated 7 May 2012

On the basis of the policy on strengthening of the land management, distribution and use stipulated in the Rectangular Strategy, the 2ndPhase of the RGC and also on the basis of the plenary session of the Council of Ministers dated 27 April 2012, especially seeing the need and urgency ahead in order to equity, strengthen and increase the effectiveness of ELCs Management the RGC issues the order for ministries, institutions and competent authorities concerned to implement as follows:

1- Provisionally suspend the granting of ELC;

2- Ministries, institutions and concerned competent authorities shall very effectively implement the policy and all the conditions of the RGC decisions on the granting of ELC and pay attention to the implementation of the ELC contracts, and in particular implement the policy of the “leopard skin formula”, without affecting community land of indigenous minorities and local people‟s livelihood, with the aim to have these ELC provide real and sustainable benefits to the country and its citizens

3- RGC shall seize ELC where companies/concessionaires that have already been given agreements from the RGC have not complied with the existing legal procedure or with the contract, in particular by having cut trees for sale but not having done the concession developments, having encroached on additional land, having let part of the land unexploited for sale, having undertaken business deals that violates the conditions of the contract, having taken land from local people or indigenous community. The reverting concessions shall be under the direct management of the State.

4- In case an ELC has received agreement in principle from the RGC before the date of this order, the additional legal principles and existing procedures shall be implemented.

 

Ministries, Institutions and competent Authorities concerned shall carry out this Order very thoroughly and effectively from the date of signature onward.

                                                                                                                                Signed and Sealed by Prime Minister Hun Sen

Cc: – Ministry of Royal Palace

– General Secretariat of Constitutional Board

– General Secretariat of Senate

– General Secretariat of National Assembly

– Cabinet of SamdechTecho PM

– General Secretariat of Royal Government

– Every Ministry and Institution

– Every Capital and Provincial Hall

– Archive

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Council of Ministers

Letter 666 SCN dated 26 June 2012 from Deputy PM Minister in charge of Council of Ministers to The Senior Minister of LMUPC

 

Subject: Request in principle for land registration in target areas to implement the Order

01BB dated 07 May 2012 on Measures Strengthening and Increasing Effectiveness of ELC Management

Reference: – Letter 737 MLMUPC/KorKorRor dated 22 June 2012 of MLMUPC

– Written note of the Prime Minister dated 24 June 2012

 

As stated in the subject and reference above, Council of Ministers would like to inform Excellency that the request for land registration in the target areas for the implementation of Order 01BB dated 07 May 2012 on Strengthening and Increasing the effectiveness of ELC management is decided by the RGC as below:

– 1- Within the areas that were excluded according to the existing procedures and regulations from forest concessions, economic land concessions, land areas managed by the Ministry of Environment and State land confiscated by a Deyka from provincial authorities, the following measures shall be implemented:

o 1.1- Agree to donate ownership, for the requests of people who actually occupy the land not exceeding 5 hectares. In this case, in order to favor the conditions of land development, the land registration procedure shall be undertaken in 2 steps.

§ 1st step: a primary title shall be provided. The title‟s value can be equivalent in use to a final ownership title until the delivery of such final title. When final title is delivered, the primary title shall be collected in exchange and attached with a sub-decree or decision.

§ 2nd step: the final title shall be provided. This can be done after all the data of the donated parcel has duly been collected. As the registration procedure does not take too long, the land sale or land transfer shall be forbidden until the delivery of the final title

o 1.2- For people occupying more than 5 hectares, whether the land contains a residence or not, the part of the land that has truly been cultivated shall be donated as ownership. Parts of the land claimed that has not been developed shall be registered as State private land and the claimant shall be given the right of “small economic concession”. In such case, the land shall be registered in the name of the Governor as the chairman of the Provincial State Land Management Committee, and the Governor shall be granted the mandate to establish the contract of “small economic concession” with the concessionaire.

§ The validity of the “small economic concession” contract can be of maximum 99 years

§ From the date the contract is signed, it is obligation of the concessionaire to cultivate the whole land within 5 years. Parts of the land that will not have been cultivated after this term shall revert to the State.

§ Fees shall be collected according to the determination of the Ministry of Economy and Finance from the 6th year on.

§ The “small concessionaire” cannot transfer the right of “small economic concession” to any third party unless such transfer results from the establishment of a new “small economic concession” contract with the competent authority. The “small concessionaire” cannot use the land in a way that affects the public interest or endangers the environment or damage potentials of the land.

– 2. For citizens who received social land concessions with the legal condition to stay on the land for 5 years before they can receive the ownership, during this transitional period, it is agreed they can have a title acknowledging their right of social concession so that they can use it as collateral to borrow money in exchange of the documents previously provided by the authorities. At the same time, RGC decided to approve the primary title model, the title model acknowledging the right of social land concession and the contract model of small economic concession.

 

As indicated above, please, Excellency, kindly be informed and arrange the implementation accordingly.

 

On behalf of Minister in charge of CoM

Acting Minister

Prak Sokhon

Cc:

– Ministry of Interior

– Ministry of Finance and Economy

– Ministry of Environment

– Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery

– Cabinet of Samdach Techo PM

– Capital, Provinces

– Archive

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Council of Ministers ,  Letter N. 684 SCN dated 02 July 2012 From Deputy PM in charge of Council of Ministers To Senior Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction

 

Subject: request in principle to limit the land size which is actually cultivated and which is to be donated as ownership to the people

Reference: – letter No. 770 MLMUPC/KorKorRor dated 28 June, 2012

– written note of Samdach Techo PM dated 29 June, 2012

 

As indicated in the subject and reference above, Council of Ministers would like

to inform Excellency that the request in principle to limit the land size being actually cultivated and which is to be donated as ownership to the people is approved by the Government as below:

1- For people occupying more than 5 hectares, whether it includes their residence or not, the size of the land that is actually cultivated shall be donated to them as their ownership. However, such donation cannot exceed 200 hectares.

2- As far as land provided as „small concession‟ is concerned, collection of „small economic concession‟ fees shall be determined and distributed, as a source of income to the sub-national level, by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

 

As informed above, please, Excellency, be informed and arrange the implementation accordingly.

On behalf of Minister in charge of CoM

Acting Minister

Prak Sokhon

Cc:

– Ministry of Interior

– Ministry of Finance and Economy

– Ministry of Environment

– Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery

– Cabinet of Samdach Techo PM

– Capital, Provinces

– Archive

 

Supreme Council for State Reform Council for Land Policy – Instruction 015 NN/MLMUPC/CLP dated 4 July 2012 on the implementation of RGC Order 01 on the Measures Reinforcing and Increasing the Effectiveness of the Management of Economic Land Concessions (ELC) dated 7 May 2012 In relation with the indigenous minorities‟ areas, jungle, semi-jungle, Prey Long forest areas, national defense base and historical and cultural areas

 

In order to implement the RGC order 001 on the Measures Strengthening and Increasing the Effectiveness of the Management of Economic Land Concessions (ELC) dated 7 May 2012 and in order to promote the tenure security in the areas in which indigenous minorities are living, or within forest concessions, ELCs or state land confiscated by provincial authority, as well as in order to protect and enhance national natural resources, the CLP chairman instructs ,in addition to existing guidelines, the chairmen of the Provincial State Land Management Committees in relation with the indigenous minorities‟ areas, jungle, semi-jungle, Prey Long forest areas, national defense areas and historical and cultural zones areas as follows:

I. Areas in which indigenous minorities are living

 

1. Indigenous minorities groups registered as „community‟ in the Ministry of Interior

 

The land identification process shall be done in the same working spirit as the one prevailing in the GDCG instructions on the implementation of RGC order 001BB and the land shall be registered as collective ownership of the „community‟ according to the request of its traditional authorities or the chairman of the indigenous minorities committee in the respect of the categories and extents determined in the Sub-decree 83 dated 09 June 2009 on Procedures of Registration of Land of Indigenous Communities and Sub-Decree 46 dated 31 May 2002 on the Procedure for Establishing the Cadastral Index Map and Land Register

After having done the land identification and following the working process above-mentioned, a primary title shall be issued to the indigenous community, attached witha primary map acknowledging the location and categories of land belonging to the community.

On the primary ownership title, it shall be filled as follows:

– On the point “II. Identity of land possessor”, shall be written the name of the indigenous minority community possessing the land (for example: II.Tompoun indigenous minority of …village ….commune ….district ….province)

– On the point “III. Property category” shall be written “collective ownership of the ….indigenous minority of the…. village”(for example: III. Property category: collective ownership of Tompoun indigenous minority of La Oen village).  At the time of issuing the final ownership title, the registration shall be done in the Land Register Book in the name of the indigenous community and issue a collective ownership title in accordance with the spirit of Sub-Decree 83 dated 9 May 2009 on Procedures of Registration of Land of Indigenous Communities.

2. Indigenous minorities community presently requesting to be registered as legal entity in the Ministry of Interior

 

It shall be implemented exactly as the indigenous minorities community had been registered already.

3. Indigenous minority individuals who do not want to be part of the„community‟ and want to live as any private person

 

It shall be implemented as for any other Khmer citizen and she/he receives private ownership on the piece of land that s/he had and still presently possesses and cultivates. In such case, if the concerned land is part of the public domain of the State, the PSLMC shall request transfer of this land to the private domain.

II. land located in jungle areas, semi-jungle areas, Prey Long forest areas, national defense areas and historical and cultural zones areas

 

In the identification process, if there are claims from the citizens and/or if there are requests over specific pieces of land located in jungle areas, semi-jungle areas, Prey Long forest, national defense areas and historical and cultural zones areas, such claims and requests shall NOT be checked.

If a piece of land related to any contract is deemed to be located in an area that is considered as in jungle areas, semi-jungle areas, Prey Long forest, national defense areas or historical/cultural following identification process by the Provincial State Land Management Committee, then the concerned PSLMC shall request the RGC decision.

Signed by H.E. ImChhun Lim

Senior Minister of LMUPC

Chairman of CLP

Cc:

-Ministries/Institutions as Members of CLP

-Cabinet of Samdach Techo PM

-Cabinets of H.E./Lok ChumTeav DPM

-Capital/Provinces

-GDs and Units of MLMUPC

-Capital-Provincial DLMUPCC

-Archive

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Supreme Council for State Reform Council for Land Policy Instruction 017-SNN/CLP signed by the Senior Minister of LMUPC on 13 July 2012 on the implementation

of Royal Government Order 001 dated 7th May 2012 on Strengthening and Increasing the Effectiveness of ELC Management In relation with roads, railways, paths, lakes, rivers, beaches and public service sites

 

In order to implement the Royal Government Order 01 on Measures Strengthening and Increasing the Effectiveness of ELC Management and ensure the compliance with land management and urban planning regulations and also maintain the physical infrastructure, socio-economic purpose in accordance with the existing legal framework, the chairman of the Council for Land Policy and also of the National Land Management Committee would like to give additional instructions relating to the identification and survey of State land to be donated to the citizens as below:

1. The necessary appropriate reserves for public roads shall be kept to serve the community and general public interest.

2. The natural lakes, sea beaches, river banks, canals and other waterways such as creeks, streams, tributaries shall be registered as public State land and their boundaries shall be determined according to the existing practice of boundary demarcation.

3. The community forest, the indigenous minorities‟ land shall be preserved in order to protect the public interest in the future.

4. In areas where the occupation is concentrated enough to constitute a village, reserves shall be organized for public interest, in particular keeping space to establish schools, health centers, monasteries, worship sites, recreation parks, etc.

The determination of such reserved areas shall be based on the agreement of the local people and the sub-national administration and shall be kept as State public land.

Provincial Governor, Chairman of PSLMC and Municipal, District and Khan Governor, Heads of Municipal, District and Khan State Land Working Groups shall be responsible for the above-mentioned determination.

The instruction is effective to be implemented from the date of signature onwards.

Signed by H.E. Im Chhun Lim, Senior Minister of LMUPC

Chairman of CLP

Cc:

-Ministries/Institutions as Members of CLP

-Cabinet of SamdachTecho PM

-Cabinets of H.E-LokChumTeav DPM

-Capital/Provinces “for info”

-GDs and Units of MLMUPC

-Capital-Provincial DLMUPCC

-Archive

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Supreme Council for State Reform Council for Land Policy Instruction 018-SNN/KKD signed by the Senior Minister, Minister of LMUPC on 20 July 2012 on Land identification, People Identification and Issuance of Primary Land Title The implementation of Royal Government Order 01 dated 7th May 2012on Reinforcing and Increasing the Effectiveness of ELC Management

 

In order to effectively implement the RGC order 01 on the Measures Strengthening and Increasing the Effectiveness of the Management of Economic Land Concessions, the chairman of the Council for Land Policy would like to give additional instructions relating to the donation of land to the citizens, in addition to the existing documents, to the chairmen of all the Provincial State Land Management Committee (PSLMC) and to the technical surveying teams as follows.

 

1. Within the implementation operations of the Order 01BB, the Sub-Decree (Anukret) 118 dated 7 October 2005 on State Land Management, the Sub-Decree (Anukret) 46 dated 31 May 2002 on Procedures to Establish Cadastral Index Map and Land Register (Systematic Registration), the Circular 02 dated 26 February 2007 on Measures Against Illegal Holding of State Land, the provincial Governor as chairmen of the PSLMC and of the Administrative Commission (AC) shall organize the information campaign on media and shall instruct the District Working Groups (DWG) with the assistance of the technical survey teams and the youth volunteer groups in order to disseminate the public information of this campaign through loud speakers within the targeted districts, communes and villages. At the same time, in order that the information dully reaches the people, informative boards shall be installed at the place where the team stays as well as at the place that shall be registered.

 

2. Identification of the area actually occupied by the citizens and of the citizens

– The PSLMC, the District State Land WG and the various commune field groups determine:

   (1) the area and size of land that shall be cut off from the forest concession, the ELC and state land that was already seized by a provincial Deyka

    (2) The number of families who affirm that they actually possess and cultivate this land

– After determination of the location and size of the land and the number of families actually possessing and cultivating the land, the PSLMC shall request the RGC to prepare a draft Anukret of reclassification of this land from State public to State private land (if the concerned land is State public land), or, a RGC decision (if the concerned land is State private land) and attached to the request a primary map of the concerned area.

– In the above-mentioned Anukret or decision, the following shall be specified: the land location (Phum, Khum, Srok/Krong, Khet), the actual number of families, the area size, the land coordinates, the categories of land use such as „public land‟, „residential land‟, „agricultural land‟, „land for reserve‟, …

– According to the necessity and in order to help the PSLMC in its work, the technical surveying teams can begin the survey of the land parcels actually occupied and cultivated by the citizens at the same time that they proceed with the identification of the land area and determination of area size. In such case, only area actually occupied by the citizens and not subject to any dispute can be surveyed.

 

3. Identification of the land parcels, Identification of the citizens and Survey of the parcels in order to issue the primary/provisional ownership title.

– The technical surveying teams shall inform the citizens about their passage to survey the parcel one week before.

– The land survey technical teams are composed of professional cadastral officers with support of youth volunteers who go together to survey parcels that citizens actually occupy and cultivate in order to gather the data used as the basis to issue the primary/provisional titles. In this process, detailed information on the citizens shall be collected including their names, photos, thumbprints, a family book, ID card, the various members of the family as well as the data of actually occupied parcels.

– Once these data have been collected, they shall be publicly displayed during 30 days with early announcement at least 7 days before the beginning of the public display. At the time the public display is taking place, there shall be a community meeting so that all can together check carefully the name list of the citizens and the parcel data.

– After the public display and the community meeting to carefully check the data together with agreement, the PSLMC shall issue the primary/provisional ownership titles to the land occupants for every parcel that is not disputed, in accordance with the decision of the RGC and while waiting for the issuance of final title. The PSLMC shall alternatively issue the letters acknowledging the use of State land in the framework of „small economic concession‟ while waiting for the issuance of contract of „small economic concession‟ in the future.

– Regarding decision on the adjudication documents relating to the right that shall be provided to the citizens, the PSLMC and the AC can check and request the decision of RGC to provide the ownership right to people through the following options:

— A- Ownership right over residential parcel and over parcels actually occupied and cultivated, whether seasonal crops or long-term crops, for a size that cannot exceed 200 hectares, or,

— B-Land use right of State land under the form of „small economic concession‟ for land that has been cleared but not yet cultivated

— A+B- In the process of deciding the rights to be provided, priority shall be given to the citizens who physically and permanently stay in the target village. As far as land parcels bigger than 10 hectares are concerned, they shall be kept for sporadic registration later.

 

4. In the case that a citizen is claiming a piece of land that has already been developed and clearly cultivated by an investor, the following principles shall be implemented:

– For citizens that have already received compensation previously following a resolution process, such claim cannot take place again,

– For citizens who had to leave the place they used to occupy because the competent authority, institution or a private business implemented the resolution properly, in accordance with the decision of RGC and the legal procedure. Then, the claim was not able to be solved. In such case, the provincial authorities can implement a social concession program in favor of the concerned citizens, which involves the confirmation of civil status from the local authorities in charge of civil status of the place where the concerned citizens originate as well as evidence of their poverty from the Provincial Land Use and Allocation Committee of their birth place.

 

5. For citizens who came to encroach on new land after the 7thMay 2012, there is no possibility to solve their issue. The setting up of a pole to encroach on State land shall be strictly forbidden. Concerned civil servants, concerned competent sub-national authorities as well as armed forces shall implementthe law and existing regulations as well as the RGC orders with high effectiveness, consciousness and responsibility.

Signed by H.E. Im Chhun Lim, Senior Minister of LMUPC

Chairman of CLP

Cc:

-Ministries/Institutions as Members of CLP

-Cabinet of Samdach Techo PM

-Cabinets of H.E-LokChumTeav DPM

“for information”

-Capital/Provinces

-GDs and Units of MLMUPC

-Capital-Provincial DLMUPCC

-Archive

“for information”

 

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Annex Instruction No. 22 dated 02 August, 2012

 

 

Model

Annex Instruction No. 22 dated 02 August, 2012

Kingdom of Cambodia

Nation Religion King

Province:…………………

District:……………………

 

“Announcement relating to the installation of boundary markers”

The technical surveying teams would like to inform the citizens actually occupying or cultivating land in the target village….. commune…….. to install markers at all the boundary corners of these parcels, using solid and big stick of wood or solid stone of cement markers in order to facilitate the surveying work of the technical surveying teams. In case such solid markers would have not been installed, the technical surveying group cannot survey the parcel to your benefit.

Done in…………. on the date of ………………..

Signed by the Field Manager of the technical surveying team”

 

 

 

Kingdom of Cambodia

Nation Religion King

Province:…………………

District:……………………

“Announcement relating to the installation of boundary markers”

The technical surveying teams would like to inform the citizens actually occupying or cultivating land in the target village….. commune…….. to install markers at all the boundary corners of these parcels, using solid and big stick of wood or solid stone of cement markers in order to facilitate the surveying work of the technical surveying teams. In case such solid markers would have not been installed, the technical surveying group cannot survey the parcel to your benefit.

Done in…………. on the date of ………………..

Signed by the Field Manager of the technical surveying team”

Annex2  

Kingdom of Cambodia

Nation Religion King

Small-scale ELC Contract

The small-scale ELC Contract is undertaken on the date of……………………………….

Between PSLMC………………Representative of the State, which shall be called from now on “State”

and the name of the occupant‟s small ELC…………..sex……date of birth………nationality…………ID No…………name of spouse……..ID No……..No. of family members(family booklet attached) which shall be called from now on “small ELC Occupant”

Provisions of Small ELC are as follows:

Article 1: State decides to grant land in the form of ELC to a small ELC Occupant with the parcel certificate number………….size…………..located in the village………….commune…………district……………province, given to the small ELC Occupant for agri-industrial development.

Article 2: A small ELC Occupant shall pay a deposit of 10 USD per ha of the parcel size given. The 70% of the deposit will be returned by the State when the cultivation is completed as planned. The remaining 30% will reimburse the cost of ELC at the end of the contract.

Article 3: The ELC tax is favored for the first five years. From the year 6th onward, the small ELC Occupant shall pay the annual ELC tax of 5 USD per ha and the tax will increase by 5% annually. If necessary, the ELC tax will be revised once per year.

Article 4: The duration of small ELC is 99 years counting from the day…month…year to the day…month…year.

Article 5: The small ELC Occupant shall exploit the land to the best and direction of its potentials, without leaving the land idle.

Article 6: For the duration of the contract, the small ELC Occupant has the following rights and obligations:

6.1. shall use the land for agricultural purpose by selecting a crop corresponding to the soil type.

6.2. The small ELC Occupant shall display a land use plan and carry out the entire land use plan for 5 years at the latest. In case the entire land size cannot be implemented, the part of undeveloped land shall revert to the State.

6.3. the land shall be utilized in compliance with the land management plan, master land use plan, or land use plan if it exists.

6.4. cannot sell or transfer the right to any other individual except that the transfer is undertaken through the establishment of another new small ELC contract together with the competent authority signing.

6.5. shall not utilize the land, which affects the public interest or the environment, or damage the land potentials.

Article 7: If the household head of the small ELC occupant passes away while implementing the contract, the spouse who is alive or a relative can continue implementing the small ELC contract.

Article 8: The small ELC Occupant has read or has been read and understands the whole content of the small ELC contract. The contract is made in 5 copies, one for the small concessionaire, one kept at the Capital/Provincial hall; one at the municipal district or Khan hall; one at the commune/Sangkat hall; and one at the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Article 9: the contract is effective to be implemented from the date of thumbprint and signature onwards.

Name and thumbprint of small concessionaire

Husband ( to be signed)                Wife ( to be signed)

On behalf of SLMC

Chairman and Governor of Provincial-Capital Governing Board ( TB signed and stamped)

 

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Kingdom of Cambodia

Nation Religion King

 

Supreme Council for State Reform Council for Land Policy Instruction 019-SNN/KKD on the strengthening of the effectiveness of the implementation of the existing policy by new actions of the RGC with regard to land reform signed by the Senior Minister of LMUPC on 26 July 2012

 

In order to strengthen the effectiveness of the survey activities of the land given to the citizens following Order 001BB dated 7 May 2012, the chairman of the Council for Land Policy and also chairman of the Committee in charge of checking the implementation of existing policies by the new actions with regard to the land reform would like to give additional instructions relating to the donation of land to the citizens to the chairmen of all the Provincial State Land Management Committee (PSLMC), to the chairmen of the Administrative Commissions (AC), the Provincial Department Directors of LMUPCC and to the technical surveying teams.

-1. Provincial Department Directors shall take an initiative to the provincial governors (who chair PSLMC and AC) about the planning to determine the areas to be registered according to a priority

-2. The Field Managers of the technical surveying teams shall record the daily attendance of the working forces engaged in the surveying work, the results achieved, challenges, and requests and then shall report to the Provincial Department Directors before 18h00 in order to report the results at last by 20h00 to the regional chairmen. Concomitantly, the Provincial Department directors shall check the report of the previous day transmitted by the GDCG through the regional chairmen in order to certify the accuracy of the report and send it back together with the daily report.

-3. All the technical surveying teams shall plan their working activities in the target villages which shall be implemented, by doing the estimation of the number of families (who live in and outside the target villages), the number of parcels and check the geographical situation.

-4. The Field Managers of the technical surveying teams shall meet with teams of youth volunteers every evening in order to discuss the measures to implement the planning of the following day, the work to be done, the number of workers necessary for implementation, the location of the places to be implemented, the way to implement and to solve the problems that have been met or to exchange pieces of information.

-5. The Field Managers of the technical surveying teams shall meet every day with their team members in order to provide instructions, solve problems and gather requests to be reported to the higher level for resolution.

-6. The Field Managers of the technical surveying teams shall meet with the Provincial Department Directors once or twice in a month according to the real situation in order to report the results of the work, the problems met, the requests and the steps forward.

-7. The Provincial Department Directors shall meet with the provincial head of the youth volunteers once every 2 weeks in order to exchange information, solve the problems met and conciliate the work.

-8. The Provincial Department Director or his representative shall meet once a month at the central level in order to report the results, the challenges, the requests and the steps forward.

 

 

Cc:

-Ministries/Institutions as Members of CLP

-Cabinet of Samdach Techo PM

-Cabinets of H.E-LokChumTeav DPM“for information”

-Capital/Provinces

-GDs and Units of MLMUPC

 

 

 

Signed by H.E. Im Chhun Lim

Senior Minister of LMUPC

Chairman of CLP

 

-Capital-Provincial DLMUPCC

“for information and implementation”

-Archive

Kingdom of Cambodia

Nation Religion King

Supreme Council for State Reform

Council for Land Policy Instruction 020-SNN/KKD on the implementation of RGC Order 01BB dated 7 May 2012 in relation with areas of indigenous communities signed by the Senior Minister of LMUPC on 26 July 2012

 

In order to implement the RGC Order 01BB dated 07 May 2012 on Measures Strengthening and Increasing Effectiveness of ELC Management and to strengthen the land tenure security in the areas occupied by indigenous communities, and because the campaign of existing policies by new actions and allocated budget is planned within the year 2012, the chairman of the Land Policy gives the following additional instructions relating to the indigenous minorities‟ land to the chairmen of all the Provincial State Land Management Committee (PSLMC) as follows:

-1. Determination of the boundaries of the all the parcels being the collective ownership of indigenous communities, particularly those related to shifting cultivation that are part of the State public domain, relates to many different places, requires a long time as well as extensive budget spending. Therefore, registration of collective ownership right of indigenous community shall be postponed to be implemented later in the framework of SD 83 dated 9 June 2009.

-2. The case in which indigenous individual who does not want to be part of an indigenous community and wants to live as a private person are concerned shall be implemented as stated in the Instructions 015SNNDNS/KKD dated 04 July 2012 in its point I-3. In addition to these instructions, it is also necessary to have the concerned individuals thumbprint a contract acknowledging their volunteer willingness to live as private individuals. These contracts shall be kept as evidence for the future.

Signed by H.E. Im Chhun Lim, Senior Minister of LMUPC

Chairman of CLP

Cc:

-Ministries/Institutions as Members of CLP

-Cabinet of SamdachTecho PM

-Cabinets of H.E-LokChumTeav DPM

“for information”

-Capital/Provinces

-GDs and Units of MLMUPC

-Capital-Provincial DLMUPCC

“for implementation”

-Archive

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Kingdom of Cambodia

Nation Religion King

Contract of willingness to live as individual person

I, the undersigned named ……….. sex:………. born on the date of ……….., being of ……….. nationality and holding the ID number……………. being married with……………… holding ID number…………… and having a family of ……….. members (attached Family Book) and being originated from the indigenous community of …………… from…………. village…………commune

………….district…………….province

wishes to certify voluntarily and in writing that:

Myself and my family are really willing to live as private individuals outside of the indigenous community and guarantee that we are not claiming the rights and/or any benefit over the properties belonging to the indigenous community such as shifting cultivation land, spiritual land, burial land, …etc.

This contract is established with free willingness and no constraint. Myself and my family have read, listened to what has been read, understood the translation made in our native language and understood clearly the meaning of this contract.

This contract is made in 3 copies (1 for the individual, 1 for the village chief, 1 for the concerned commune/Sangkat).

This contract is made in……………………dated…………………….…

Name and thumbprint by Husband and Wife and by the Witness of same ethnicity or by community head.  

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Kingdom of Cambodia

Nation Religion King

 

Supreme Council for State Reform Council for Land Policy Instruction 022 SNN/KKD dated 02 August 2012 on certification of the civil status and determination of the poverty status by the local authorities of the place where the concerned persons come from in order to be able to implement Social Land Concession (SLC) Programs in the framework of the implementation of existing policies by new actions with regard to land reform

 

In order to implement effectively the RGC Order 01BB on the Measures Strengthening and Increasing the Effectiveness of the Management of Economic Land Concessions (ELC) dated 7 May 2012 and the CLP instructions 018 dated 20 July 2012, the chairman of the CLP who is also chairman of the National Social Land Concessions Committee provides additional instructions to the existing ones to the chairmen of the Provincial State Land Management Committees (PSLMC) who are also chairmen of the Provincial Land Use and Allocation Committees (PLUAC) as follows:

 

1- In the case that the citizens who have left the place they used to occupy and that the competent authorities, institutions or companies have done properly according to the RGC instructions and legal procedures, then the citizens‟ claims cannot be solved. In such case, the provincial authorities can implement a SLC program to help all these citizens, according to the following procedure:

1.1. The PSLMC shall record the concrete data concerning the number of actual claimants related to specific land and transmit the list of names to the corresponding authorities of the provinces where these citizens originate (They can be citizens from the province where the SLC program is implemented but they can also come from another province) in order to check and certify their civil status and determine the extent of their poverty. These data will serve as the basis to determine whether they are entitled to benefit from the SLC program or not.

1.2. The certification of the extent of poverty shall be implemented according to the spirit of the SD 291 ANKr.BK dated 27 December 2011 on the Identification of Poor Families and on the Manual on the procedures of identification of poor families of the Ministry of Planning.

1.3. The data on civil and poverty status already certified by the PLUAC of the province where the concerned citizen originates shall officially be transmitted to the province where the SLC program is implemented (for the citizens coming from another province)

1.4. The PLUAC of the province where the SLC program is implemented shall transmit the data on the implementation of such program to the General Secretariat of the National Social Land Concession Committee and request its opinion on the implementation

 

2. In the spirit of the Notification No. 666 SCN dated 26 June 2012 of Council of Ministers, the chairman of the PLUAC shall issue SLC certificates (as annexed) to the persons benefiting from SLC of RGC so that they can use these certificates as surety of a loan during the 5 years during which they legally must possess the land before they can get the final ownership title. Persons who have benefited from SLC program and have occupied the land 5 years as requested and have respected the conditions as stated in the SLC contract acquire the right of ownership and can request the ownership title.

 

These instructions shall be implemented from the date of the signature.

 

Signed by H.E. Im Chhun Lim

Senior Minister of LMUPC

Chairman of CLP

Cc:

-Ministries/Institutions as Members of CLP

-Cabinet of Samdach Techo PM

-Cabinets of H.E-Lok Chum Teav DPM

“for information”

-Capital/Provinces

-GDs and Units of MLMUPC

-Capital-Provincial DLMUPCC

“for implementation”

-Archive

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Kingdom of Cambodia

Nation Religion King

SLC Certificate

No.:………….

Province : …………… Map Sheet:………

District : …………… Parcel No.: (Ex. 002)

Commune : …………… Size:……………..

Village :…………… Land Use: agricultural and/or residential land

Characteristic of Land Use: SLC

Reference: SLC Contract dated…………