Starting in the 1980s, the Sudanese Environment Conservation Society (SECS) initiated a process to compile laws relating to the environment. In 1994, the Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources (HCENR) established a National Committee consisting of representatives from the Attorney General Chambers, the Faculty of Law, and SECS to collect the sectoral laws that have some bearing on the environment, review 
the MEAs to which Sudan is a party, and prepare a draft framework environmental law. A series of workshops discussed the findings of the National Committee, and several governmental organizations participated in these discussions, including the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Forest Corporation, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Animal Resources, as well as SECS. The HCENR solicited the assistance of UNEP, which provided a consultant in environmental law. The consultant visited Sudan twice, at which time he consulted various governmental and non-governmental organisations for their views on the needs, constraints, and context of the State. The consultant prepared a technical report about the environmental laws in Sudan based on the work of the National Committee and assisted in the compilation of a framework environmental legislation. This framework law was discussed in a 1996 workshop in Khartoum.
These efforts culminated in the enactment of the Environmental Protection Act in 2001. The Act includes a provision on compliance with international conventions. It states that the HCENR is the authority charged with undertaking to apply the rules of the international conventions, bilateral and international protocols, which the government has ratified, is about to ratify, or will join in the future. The HCENR is also responsible for collaborating with the appropriate authorities to ensure that national laws conform with MEAs.
For more information, contact Mr. Adil Ali at hcenr@sudanmail.net