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Article 54
The conditions for the construction of industrial plants, of facilities for storage, for
the handling, the incineration and for the removal of toxic, polluting or radioactive
waste produced by industrial units or workshops established on the national
territory are established by the law.
Any pollution or destruction resulting from an economic activity gives rise to
compensation and/or to reparation.
The law determines the nature of the compensatory measures and reparatory
[measures] as well as the modalities of their execution.
Article 55
The transportation, the importation, the storage, the spilling [or] the disposal in the
internal waters or maritime spaces under national jurisdiction, [or] the release into
the airspace[,] of toxic, polluting or radioactive waste or of any other dangerous
product, of foreign origin [provenance] or not, constitutes a crime punishable by the
law.
• International law
Article 56
Any act, any agreement, any convention, any arrangement or any other act which has
the consequence of depriving the Nation [or] physical or moral persons of all or part
of their means of existence drawn from their natural resources or their wealth, is
established, without prejudice to the international provisions on economic crimes, as
the crime of pillage punishable by the law.
Article 57
The acts referred to in the preceding article as well as the attempt of them, whatever
their modalities may be, if they are acts of a person invested with public authority[,]
are punishable as infractions of high treason.
Article 58
All Congolese have the right to enjoy the national wealth.
The State has the duty to redistribute it equitably and to guarantee the right to
development.
Article 59
All Congolese have the right to enjoy the common patrimony of humanity. The State
has the duty to facilitate the enjoyment of it.
Article 60
The respect of the rights of man and of the fundamental freedoms consecrated in the
Constitution is imposed on the public powers and on every person.
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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