Shore Protection Procedures

Article 56

Establishing any facilities on the lands that are within the prohibition scope referred to in article 86 of the Irrigation and Drainage Law shall not be allowed without the approval of the Egyptian Public Authority for Shore Protection.

Engineers of the Egyptian Public Authority for Shore Protection who are designated as investigation officers shall have the right to access the lands referred to and the facilities set on them for inspecting the works conducted. If it turns out that violative works have been conducted or embarked on, the engineers shall have the right to cease these works by the administrative way at the expense of the violator and seize the machines and devices used.

Article 57

Submission of an application bearing the official stamps to the General Director of Shore Protection shall be stipulated for obtaining the approval referred to in article 56 of this regulation. The following should be enclosed in the application:

1. A survey map with a scale of 1/2500 or 1:5000 of three copies and a blueprint taken from a map illustrating the borders of the lands owned by the person applying for the approval, as well as the location and the survey lengths for the work required to be established, of which one is signed by a syndicate engineer.

2. A title deed of the lands for which the approval for establishing the facilities on them is required if these lands are private property, otherwise the allotment decree.

3. A statement of utilization of the facilities for which approval is required.

4. A detailed design and an estimate of the facilities required to be established.

5. A statement of the main geometric specifications, conditions and technical specifications regarding the facilities requiring the approval.

6. A pledge to implement the conditions set by the Egyptian Public Authority for Shore Protection and not to infract these conditions and technical specifications regarding the facilities for whose establishment the approval is required.

The approval shall be issued by the president of the Egyptian Public Authority for Shore Protection in two months from the date of submission of the necessary documents. The applicant should be notified with the approval given to him as soon as it is issued.

The competent engineers of shore protection public departments shall supervise implementation of the conditions of the approval.

In case of rejection of establishment of any of the facilities referred to, the applicant shall be notified with a registered letter of the reasons of rejection within two months from the date of submitting the application.