概要

This working paper examines whether new rules from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could help bring transparency to Uganda’s oil industry.

执行摘要

乌干达在编纂获得信息的权利（ATI）和参与方面取得了重大进展，并为石油部门的机构基础设施（包括监管框架）建立了适当的进展。然而，政治上的后卫在政府行政部门重新集中权力以及已知的石油储量规模不断增长，可能会危及这些进步。

在这种情况下，在美国，一项新法律的通过，要求向美国证券交易委员会（SEC）提交年度报告的公司披露他们向东道国付款的付款，以提取石油，天然气和矿物质，could help shore up transparency around investment in Uganda’s extractives industry and avoid the failures in governance that have exposed other countries to the “resource curse.”

更新

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更新：On 21 April 2011, the government of Uganda signed into law new regulations for implementing Uganda’s Access to Information (ATI) Act of 2005. The ATI Regulations were long awaited and widely welcomed, since many local and international advocates believed their absence had hindered full implementation of the Act, and stymied efforts to increase transparency and accountability. The Regulations support implementation of the ATI Act in a number of important ways. For example, they establish procedures for citizens to request government-held information and for government to respond to citizen requests. But the Regulations also include a number of burdensome provisions that make access unnecessarily costly and difficult and, as such, they are not in the spirit of the strong right to information provision found in Uganda’s Constitution.