Question 1.1.9a: Is the government required to publicly disclose all signed licenses/contracts with extractive companies?,
1.2.5e: For countries using production sharing agreements, do rules specify the company and government production shares?,
1.3.1a: Are extractive companies required to prepare an EIA and/or SIA prior to development?,
1.1.5a: Following each licensing process, is the licensing authority required to disclose the list of companies that submitted license applications (in the case of a first-come, first served; or negotiation round) or bids (in the case of an auction)?,
1.2.5b: Do rules specify the royalty rate(s) applying to extractive companies?,
1.2.5c: Do rules specify the level of state equity (or options for state equity such as carried interest) in extractive companies ?,
2.2b: Are there specific rules governing the transfer of extractive resource revenues (i.e. are these rules distinct from those governing other types of transfers)?,
2.2c: Do rules specify that subnational governments of producing areas should receive a higher share of extractive resource revenues than those of non-producing areas?,
2.2a: Does the central government transfer extractive resource revenues to subnational governments?,
1.1.3b: Prior to each licensing process, is the licensing authority required to disclose a list of biddable terms or negotiable terms?,
1.3.7a: Are there rules governing compensation to landowners or land users when project development interferes with their access to or use of land?,
1.1c: What licensing process does the licensing authority follow?,
1.1a: How does the country legally define the ownership of subsoil extractive resources?,
2.2.5a: Were transfers of extractive resource revenues to subnational governments externally audited over the most recently completed audit timeframe?,
1.1.5b: Following each licensing process, is the licensing authority required to publicly disclose the identity of the winning bidder or applicant?

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