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Law No. 775/2006 - Temporary Generation-Licensing Authority

Temporarily allowed the Council of Ministers to authorise electricity generation on a proposal from the Minister of Energy and Water while the permanent regulatory framework remained incomplete.

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Official recordLaw No. 775/2006 - Temporary Generation-Licensing Authority
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Scope and applicability

Historic temporary generation-permit authority.

Why it matters

It began the sequence of exceptional licensing bridges later continued through Laws 288, 54 and 129.

Core provisions

The operative ideas to understand before reading the full text.

  1. 01

    Created a temporary Cabinet route for authorising generation.

  2. 02

    Operated pending the permanent regulator and Law 462 implementation.

  3. 03

    Preceded later temporary-authority laws with different proposal and duration rules.

Engineering lens

  • Enabled permits but not automatic grid access.
  • Technical approvals remained project-specific.

Economic and investment lens

  • Reduced one approval barrier temporarily.
  • Expiry and legal succession affect project-title risk.

From text to operation

Implementation gates

These conditions must be evidenced before treating the instrument as operational for a project, tariff or market transaction.

  1. 1Historical Cabinet approval
  2. 2Separate licence and contract evidence
  3. 3Successor-law analysis

Documented relationships

  • This instrument creates an early temporary exception to Law 462
  • Linked instrument continues the exceptional licensing route Law 288

Primary sources

  1. National Renewable Energy Action Plan 2025-2030 Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026