The Awash Basin Water Resources Administration Agency is established as an autonomous public agency accountable to the ministry of water resources. The agency is saddled with the responsibility of coordination, harmonising, and regulating the utilization of the surface water resources of the basin. It highlights the powers and duties of the agency, organization structure, the board members and their powers and duties, and other miscellaneous provisions.

The proclamation applies to cooperative societies established in the country. It has several objectives, ranging from collective solving of members’ social and economic problems to promotion of self-reliance and saving culture, and to providing loans to members and promotion of investment. The proclamation expressly states that membership shall be voluntary, without recourse to any discriminatory bias. It highlights other guiding principles, values, formation and registration procedures, and other key pointers.

This proclamation is an amendment to the Commercial Registration and Business Licensing (amended) Proclamation of 2010.

This proclamation amends the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange Proclamation of 2007.

The Proclamation seeks to ensure that all surface and ground waters of Ethiopia are properly protected and managed. The proclamation sets out the general provisions, Supervising body, Inventory of water resources and registry of actions, permits and professional licenses, Fees and water charges, servitude, water banks and harmful effect of water, the association of water users, and transitory provisions. The proclamation declares all water resources of Ethiopia as common property.

A proclamation to further amend the commercial registration and business licensing proclamation of 1997, as a matter of necessity.

This Proclamation shall apply to geothermal resources development activities within the territory of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Its objectives include; promoting the use of grade II geothermal resources, encouraging a sustainable carbon-neutral Ethiopian economy, and ensuring the security of tenure of investors.

This Proclamation shall apply to any person directly or indirectly involved in live animals marketing within the country. The proclamation stipulates that the Marketing of live animals shall be carried out at the first level and the second level lives animals market centres under Article 5 and Article 6 of this Proclamation. It specifies details about the levels of market centres, live animals health control, transportation of live animals, as well as the duties and obligations of market actors.

The proclamation has the following objectives: to protect consumers’ rights and benefits; to ensure the suitableness of the supply of goods and services to human health and safety; ensuring that manufacturers, importers, service dispensers and persons engaged in commercial activities adhere to the required regulations; and preventing and eliminating trade practices that damage the interests and goodwill of business persons.

The proclamation defines a condominium as a “building for residential or another purpose with five or more separately owned units and common elements, in a high-rise building or a row of houses, and includes the landholding of the building”. It sets out registration and certificate procedures, ownership, an association of unit owners, and their powers and duties, sales and leases, and other provisions.

The proclamation defines the basic principles to be taken into consideration in the determination of the compensation to a person whose landholding has been expropriated to the government needs for the use of land for public services. It also defines the organs with the powers to determine the amount to be paid in compensation.

A proclamation to provide for the ratification of the Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilization at the tenth meeting held on 29 October 2010, in Nagoya, Japan. The Institute of Biodiversity Conservation is equipped with the power of implementation.

These sets of guidelines push towards effectively driving and improving the general use of Anti-Retroviral drugs. They seek to complement other national implementation guidelines. The guidelines have an overall goal of improving general service deliveries at all levels.

The proclamation establishes a Maritime Affairs Authority as an autonomous public authority having its judicial personality. The powers and duties of the authority, the organization and management, and miscellaneous provisions are specified. The objectives of the authority include; “ensure that the transport operations and movement of goods in import and export of the country are economical; plan, coordinate and enforce such operation; reduce the transit time of import-export of goods, and coordinate the concerned Government bodies to care for goods at port”.

This Proclamation shall apply to all raw-hide and skin marketing participants. It highlights key pointers like the certificate of competence, processing and transportation of raw hides and skins, marketing, prohibitions, marketing information, and inspection and administrative measures.

The Authority is established as an autonomous federal government public institution, accountable to the office of the prime minister, and with powers and duties spelt out in this proclamation. The objective of the Authority is to “formulate policies, strategies, laws and standards, which foster social and economic development in a manner that enhance the welfare of humans and the safety of the environment sustainable, and to spearhead in ensuring the effectiveness of the process of their implementation”.

The proclamation is for the consolidation of peasant associations. “The Proclamation addresses; objectives, powers and duties of Peasant Associations, organization and method of work of Peasant Associations, membership. The Proclamation deals with judicial tribunals, the Revolution Defence Committee and the Permanent Secretariat.

The proclamation to ratify the Basel Protocol on Liability and Compensation Damage Resulting from transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal. The adoption of the protocol was held at the fifth meeting of the conference of the parties to the Basel Convention, on the 10th December 2000. The environmental protection agency is granted powers of implementation.

The proclamation to ratify the convention on migratory species of wild animals was adopted in Bonn, Germany, on 23 June 1979. The Ethiopian wildlife development and conservation authority are granted powers of implementation.

A proclamation to amend the commercial registration and business licensing proclamation of 1997, as a matter of necessity.