The proclamation for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict and its first protocol was signed at Hague on the 14 days of May 1954. The powers and responsibility for implementation are placed on the authority for research and conservation of cultural heritage.

The decree recognises the growing use of pesticides for improving agricultural outputs. It highlights the need to ensure the damage or adverse effects of the utilization of these pesticides on humans, animals, plants, and the environment is reduced to the bearable minimum. It addresses prohibition, registration, packaging, labelling, storage, and disposal of pesticides. The proclamation addresses the need for comprehensive legislation to regulate the
manufacture, formulation, import, export, transport, storage, distribution, sale, use and disposal of pesticides and other related matters.

The Federal Urban Planning Institute is established as an autonomous public organ having its legal personality. The Institute shall be accountable to the Ministry of federal affairs. The institute is charged with achieving a balanced urban system driven by integrated urban plans that encompass socio-economic and land-use dimensions and that ensure developments that have strong linkages with their rural hinterlands.

The proclamation defines industrial chemicals as chemicals used for industrial, educational and training, research and transfer purposes. It excludes pharmaceuticals and medicals, food and food additives, agricultural, chemical weapons and radioactive chemicals. This Proclamation applies to any person who is engaged in the transaction of industrial chemicals. It details the objective, certification and registration, record keeping and reporting, importation, packing, labelling, transporting, and storage of chemicals.

A Proclamation for the Government ownership of urban lands and extra-urban houses. The Proclamation details: Introduction, Urban Lands, Urban Houses, Rent, Cooperative Societies of Urban Dwellers, Powers and Duties of the Ministry, and General Provisions. The constitution of Ethiopia vests all lands in the state to its people, and the Proclamation vests all urban lands in the Government.

The federal government has highlighted the development of the agriculture sector as a critical pre-requisite for poverty alleviation in the country. It thus seeks to facilitate an efficient marketing system for agricultural commodities. The Ethiopia commodity exchange is established as a wholly state-owned market institution having a legal personality. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall serve as the supervisory body. The proclamation sets out the purpose for establishment, capital, membership, organization, among others.

This policy pushes to address tax collection issues such as tax evasion and tax fraud in the country. It seeks to encourage voluntary payment of the right amount of taxes at the right time. This is to drastically minimize costs associated with the tax collection process both on the taxpayer’s end, and to the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) that manages tax collection and related issues.

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 policy is based on a study conducted by relevant stakeholders and youth associations passionate about youth development. It acknowledges the importance of youths to society and their inherent leadership roles and abilities. The policy contains principles to drive active and organized participation of youth in achieving good governance and general development of the society.

The proclamation amends the Ethiopia commodity exchange authority establishment proclamation

The micro-financing business shall see to the collection of deposits and issuance of credit to rural and urban farmers and people engaged in other similar activities as well as micro and small scale rural and urban entrepreneurs, the maximum amount of which may be determined by the National Bank. The proclamation also specifies other specific roles a micro-financing institution can take on. It contains other pertinent pointers ranging from licensing to operational and financial requirements and limitations.

The proclamation is to repeal the national research institute of health establishment proclamation of 1985. The proclamation transfers the rights and obligations of the institute to the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute.

The proclamation ratifies the Agreement for the Conservation of African Eurasian Migratory Water Birds Agreement signed in Hague Netherlands on June 16th 1995. The Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority is saddled with the power of implementation.

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.