identification of property and property owners throughout the entire country; as such it maintains the national register of all acts and relating to registration of property and ownership, including the listing, recognition, transmission, transfer, modification, taxation and cancellation of property rights. 4.2.5 Ministry of Employment and Social Security (STSS) The STSS has overall responsibility for employment policy and social protection systems for welfare and social security for workers and employers. 4.2.6 Honduran Institute of Social Security (IHSS) The Honduran Institute of Social Security is an autonomous entity, with legal personality and its own assets, independent of the national tax authority. Since its creation, it has been responsible for guiding, directing, providing and administering social security services to the working population of Honduras. Under the Constitution of the Republic, the Government, employers and workers are obliged to contribute to the funding, improvement and expansion of the social security system. Social security for the working class in Honduras primarily rests on the coverage offered by the IHSS, hence its major influence on governance in health and social security matters. Outside the country’s main cities (Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, Ceiba and Puerto Cortés) where the largest forest operators are located, the IHSS is not represented in the other population centres of the country, and even less so in rural areas, where most forest operators work. 4.2.7 Ministry of Energy, Natural Resources, Environment and Mines (MiAmbiente) MiAmbiente is responsible for the formulation, coordination, execution and assessment of policies relating to the environment, ecosystems, the protection and use of resources, coordination, the protection of flora and fauna, and compliance with the Environmental Impact Assessment on primary and secondary forest product companies.
identification of property and property owners throughout the entire country; as such it maintains the national register of all acts and relating to registration of property and ownership, including the listing, recognition, transmission, transfer, modification, taxation and cancellation of property rights. 4.2.5 Ministry of Employment and Social Security (STSS) The STSS has overall responsibility for employment policy and social protection systems for welfare and social security for workers and employers. 4.2.6 Honduran Institute of Social Security (IHSS) The Honduran Institute of Social Security is an autonomous entity, with legal personality and its own assets, independent of the national tax authority. Since its creation, it has been responsible for guiding, directing, providing and administering social security services to the working population of Honduras. Under the Constitution of the Republic, the Government, employers and workers are obliged to contribute to the funding, improvement and expansion of the social security system. Social security for the working class in Honduras primarily rests on the coverage offered by the IHSS, hence its major influence on governance in health and social security matters. Outside the country’s main cities (Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, Ceiba and Puerto Cortés) where the largest forest operators are located, the IHSS is not represented in the other population centres of the country, and even less so in rural areas, where most forest operators work. 4.2.7 Ministry of Energy, Natural Resources, Environment and Mines (MiAmbiente) MiAmbiente is responsible for the formulation, coordination, execution and assessment of policies relating to the environment, ecosystems, the protection and use of resources, coordination, the protection of flora and fauna, and compliance with the Environmental Impact Assessment on primary and secondary forest product companies.
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