According to the joint executive decree consulted by Lusa this Thursday, companies, public entities or citizens who "on their own initiative and for different purposes, intend or request the execution of the demining action with the National Demining Institute" will have to share the costs, which vary depending on the area to be demined.
The diploma, signed by the ministers of Finance and Social Action, Family and Women Promotion, states that the execution of demining actions has resulted in "significant financial burdens for the national treasury, requiring today the financial co-participation of interested parties in general".
The payment of this benefit will be mandatory from now on, excluding people who find or locate mines or isolated explosive devices in a given area, mines that are located during awareness-raising activities, as well as devices that are found by Organs of defense and security or as a result of collaboration with local authorities.
Contributions focus on demining, technical and non-technical survey of the areas, and detection, removal, deactivation and destruction of 'stock' of mines and other devices, as well as the issuance of the respective proof.
The amount resulting from this charge reverts to the National Demining Institute to guarantee the operationalization of the actions of public operators.
Demining costs vary between 160 kwanzas per square meter for areas between one and 1000 square meters and five kwanzas for areas over 100,000 hectares.
