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(15) kilometers internal waters, the Central Government and the BJE shall exercise
joint jurisdiction, authority and management over areas and all natural resources x x
x.
[16] Paragraph 2.h., Territory. Sharing of Minerals on Territorial Waters: Consistent
with paragraphs 5 and 6 of the provisions on Resources, all potential sources of
energy, petroleum in situ, hydrocarbon, natural gas and other minerals, including
deposits or fields found within territorial waters, shall be shared between the Central
Government and the BJE in favor of the latter through production sharing agreement
or economic cooperation agreement.
[17] Paragraph 1, Resources. The BJE is empowered with authority and responsibility
for the land use, development, conservation and disposition of the natural resources
within the homeland. Upon entrenchment of the BJE, the land tenure and use of
such resources and wealth must reinforce their economic self-sufficiency. x x x
[18] Paragraph 2, Resources. The Bangsamoro People through their appropriate
juridical entity shall, among others, exercise power or authority over the natural
resources within its territorial jurisdiction:
1. To explore, exploit, use or utilize and develop their ancestral domain and
ancestral lands within their territorial jurisdiction, inclusive of their right of
occupation, possession, conservation, and exploitation of all natural resources
found therein;
2. x x x
3. To utilize, develop, and exploit its natural resources found in their ancestral
domain or enter into joint development, utilization, and exploitation of natural
resources, specifically on strategic minerals, designed as commons or shared
resources, which is tied up to the final setting of appropriate institutions;
To revoke of grant forest concessions, timber license, contracts or agreements in the
utilization and exploitation of natural resources designated as commons or shared
resources, mechanisms for economic cooperation with respect to strategic minerals,
falling within the territorial jurisdiction of the BJE; x x x
[19] Article VII, Section 21. No treaty or international agreement shall be valid and
effective unless concurred in by at least two-thirds of all Members of the Senate.
[20] Article X, Section 4. The President of the Philippines shall exercise general
supervision over local governments. x x x
[21] Article X, Section 5. Each local government unit shall have the power to create
its own sources of revenues and to levy taxes, fees, and charges subject to such
guidelines and limitations as the Congress may provide, consistent with the basic
policy of local autonomy. Such taxes, fees and charges shall accrue exclusively to
the local government.
[22] Paragraph 2.e, Resources states that the BJE shall have the power: e. To enact
agrarian laws and programs suitable to the special circumstances of the Bangsamoro
people prevailing in their ancestral lands within the established territorial boundaries
of the Bangsamoro homeland and ancestral territory within the competence of the
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