| Spanish | English |
| aplicación de ley | law enforcement |
| aplicación de ley | law enforcement Any variety of activities associated with promoting compliance and obedience to the binding rules of a state, especially the prevention, investigation, apprehension or detention of individuals suspected or convicted of violating those rules |
| gestión de reciclaje y ley de residuos | recycling management and waste law |
| gestión de reciclaje y ley de residuos | recycling management and waste law A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by government to establish and regulate provisions for the minimization of waste generation through recovery and reprocessing of re-usable products |
| ley de Amagat | Amagat's law |
| ley de buys ballot | buys ballot's law |
| ley de control de emisiones | immission control law |
| ley de disposición de residuos | waste disposal act |
| ley de disposición de residuos | waste disposal act Law that settles the rules concerning the disposal, recycling and treatment of wastes |
| ley de ejecución | implementation law |
| ley de explotación minera | mining law |
| ley de explotación minera | mining law A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by a government to regulate the potentially harmful activity of enterprises concerned with the extraction and processing of precious or valuable metals |
| ley de fertilizantes | fertiliser law |
| ley de forraje | forage law |
| ley de independencia natural | natural independence law |
| ley de independencia natural | natural independence law The inviolable, moral claim of non-human organisms and their habitats to exist unharmed or unchanged by human activity as postulated by certain environmental ethicists |
| ley de la pesca | fishing law |
| ley de la pesca | fishing law Rules concerning fishing activities; in international law the matter is ruled by the 1958 Geneva Convention |
| ley de planificación | planning law |
| ley de planificación | planning law A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by a government to organize, designate and regulate land use within its domain through zoning laws, subdivision regulations, rent and sign controls, growth management and other measures designed to protect human health and ecological integrity |
| ley de plomo en gasolina | lead-in-petrol law |
| ley de plomo en gasolina | lead-in-petrol law A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by a government to reduce or eliminate the lead content in petroleum fuels used in vehicular and other engines that pollute the air with lead-carrying exhaust |
| ley de policía | police law |
| ley de policía | police law A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by a government to regulate the employment and tactics of police or other civil agents organized to maintain order, prevent and detect crimes and promote obedience to civil regulations and authority |
| ley de protección contra la radiación | radiation protection law |
| ley de protección contra la radiación | radiation protection law A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by government to establish measures to keep humans and natural resources safe from harmful exposure to energy waves released by nuclear materials, electromagnetic current and other sources |
| ley de protección de la naturaleza | Nature Conservancy Act 1967 |
| ley de transporte | transport law |
| ley de transporte | transport law Rules concerning the movement of goods or persons by sea, railway or road |
| ley de urgencia | emergency law |
| ley de vecindad | neighbourhood law |
| ley de vecindad | neighbourhood law A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by a government to protect human health and the environment, manage growth and development or enhance the quality of life in small geographical and social areas within cities where residents share values and concerns and interact with one another on a daily basis |
| Ley EIA | EIA law |
| Ley EIA | EIA law Law concerning the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, based on the EC Directive n. 85/337 |
| ley federal | federal law |
| ley federal | federal law A binding rule or body of rules established by a government that has been constituted as a union of independent political units or states |
| Ley federal de control de emisión | Federal Immission Control Act |
| ley federal para la protección contra las emisiones | federal law for the protection against emissions |
| ley municipal | municipal law |
| ley municipal | municipal law Broadly, a law or body of laws that pertains solely to the citizens and inhabitants of a state; narrowly, a law or body of laws pertaining to towns, cities, villages and their local governments |
| ley normativa | regulative law |
| Ley por la que se establecen disposiciones generales en materia de higiene del medio ambiente | Environmental Protection General Provisions Act |
| ley provincial/regional D | provincial/regional law D |
| ley provincial/regional | provincial/regional law D (D) |
| ley rural | rural law |
| ley rural | rural law A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by a government pertaining to matters of importance to residents of sparsely populated regions, especially agricultural and other economic issues |
| proyecto de ley | law draft The form in which proposed statutes, resolutions or special acts are introduced into a legislative body, before they are enacted or passed |
| un protocolo, otro instrumento jurídico o de un resultado acordado con fuerza de ley en el marco de la Convención | a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention |
