The Petroleum Mining Code is adopted to govern the exploration, development and exploitation of Petroleum within the JPDA, as well as the export of Petroleum from the JPDA.

The Treaty establishes the Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA). The Governments of Timor-Leste and Australia jointly control, manage and facilitate the exploration, development and exploitation of the petroleum resources of the JPDA for the benefit of their peoples.

A tax to establish wide and fair burdens for the use of all the fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal, depending on environmental load (CO2 emissions). The policy addresses the following topics: 1. Background and Purpose of CarbonTax; 2. Mechanism of CarbonTax; 3. Household Burden due to CarbonTax; 4. Efforts to Reducethe Economic Burden and CO2; 5. Revenue of Carbon Tax; 6. CO2 Reduction Effects of CarbonTax; 7. Considerable Measures Related to CarbonTax.

The document provides a table with details on energy and vehicle taxations. It outlines details on items subject to tax, their tax rate, tax revenue for FY 2012 and how Tax Revenue is to be spent.

A plan to require all taxpayers, including businesses and households, to be involved in a fair contribution to climate change measures according to their volume of emissions. It aims to promote large emitting businesses to take measures by enlightening tax rate on those which make efforts to reduce emissions.

The present document approved four rules: 1) the rules for non-discriminatory access to power transmission services and rendering of these services, 2) the rules for non-discriminatory access to dispatching services in the electric power industry and rendering of these services, 3) the rules for non-discriminatory access to services rendered by the Administrator of Trading System functioning within the wholesale power market and rendering of these services, and 4) the rules for technological connection of power receiving devices (power plants) owned by legal entities and natural persons to power grids. The rules provided equal rights for all the consumers of electricity and services regardless of their organizational form and relations with the service provider.

The implementation of the Government's political agenda is based on the structure and vision of the Strategic Development Plan 2011-2030, and in particular: Social Development; Infrastructure Development; Economic Development; Governance Development Using short, medium and long term measures we will, by 2030, transform Timor-Leste from a low income country into a medium-high income country, with a healthy, educated and safe population and a society that is prosperous and self-sufficient in terms of food.

The Government Program is based on the Strategic Development Plan 2011-2030 , which is built upon the foundations we have been laying since 2002, and which took into account a broad public consultation conducted through the 65 sub-districts, including villages and sucos throughout the nation. All strategies and actions considered in this Plan, which was approved by Parliament in July 2011, seek to transform Timor-Leste from a low income country to a medium-high income country by 2030, with a healthy, educated and safe population that is prosperous and self-sufficient.

The Programme of the IV Constitutional Government reflects the Government's commitment with Timor-Leste. The programme is, first and foremost, a fundamental tool to fulfill the pact of stability, loyalty, honesty, solidarity, steadfastness and mutual respect that the political parties making up the Alliance for a Parliamentary Majority (APM) have celebrated with the Timorese nation at the general election. The programme is also a tool to guarantee national stability and promote development and prosperity in Timor-Leste, a pledge we made on 8 August 2007 when this Government was sworn-in.

The Government hereby creates TIMOR GAP - Timor Gás & Petróleo, Empresa Publica (TIMOR GAP, E.P.) for the purposes of holding and managing, under a corporate structure and in accordance with business principles, the assets owned by the State of Timor-Leste in the oil sector assigned by law.