South Africa - Standard Template for Legislation to Set Up an Autonomous Road Authority

This template was prepared for the Southern Africa Transport and Communications Commission (SATCC) in 1998. It is a comprehensive template that could be used as the basis for drafting legislation for a specific country. It not only covers road management, but also deals with road financing and the regulation of roads and road transport.

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UNCITRAL 1985 Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, with amendments as adopted in 2006

The Model Law is designed to assist States in reforming and modernizing their laws on arbitral procedure so as to take into account the particular features and needs of international commercial arbitration. It covers all stages of the arbitral process from the arbitration agreement, the composition and jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal and the extent of court intervention through to the recognition and enforcement of the arbitral award.

Electrification and Regulation: Principles and a Model Law

The paper presents one of the first systemmatic attempts at defining workable regulatory systems that will “help” rather than “hinder” electrification with emphasis on offgrid electrification. It does this by first presenting four general principles that would need to be satisfied by such a regulatory system:
Principle 1—Adopt light-handed and simplified regulation.
Principle 2—Allow (or require) the regulator to “contract out” or delegate, either temporarily or permanently,
regulatory tasks to other government or nongovernment entities.

Draft UNECE/EBRD People-first PPP Model PPP law and commentary

Takes into account the challenges that have arisen when attracting private business to infrastructure in connection with the SDGs, and in particular with the Guiding Principles on People-First Public Private Partnerships (the “People-First PPP Principles”). Principle No. 7 of the People First PPP Principles refers specifically to resilience and climate change.

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