A/HRC/25/64 (b) Ensure that the draft association law is amended to remove criminal sanctions and replace the registration procedure with a voluntary notification procedure, and ensure the concomitant review/abolition of the Act relating to the Formation of Organizations and the Unlawful Associations Act; (c) Invite the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association to visit the country, and ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 79. In relation to human rights concerns in the context of development, the Government should: (a) Establish a system of individual titling and tenure rights for smallholders to protect people against land appropriation and forced evictions; (b) Put in place a collective or communal tenure system for land, fisheries and forests to protect the access of local communities to common goods and ensure that the land can be converted to new uses only with their free, prior and informed consent; (c) Abide by the basic principles and guidelines on development-based evictions and displacement (A/HRC/4/18, annex I); (d) Ensure that people peacefully protesting forced evictions and land confiscations are not subjected to excessive use of force by the police or arbitrary detention and criminal prosecution; (e) Ensure that the recommendations from the Letpadaung parliamentary commission and the environmental and social impact assessment are fully implemented; (f) Make environmental and social impact assessments a legal requirement for all large-scale development projects in Myanmar and ensure that human rights impact assessments are incorporated; (g) Abide by the guiding principles on human rights impact assessments of trade and investment agreements (see A/HRC/19/59/Add.5); (h) Continue the good progress in preparing for Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative candidature. 80. The Special Rapporteur also calls on all investors and businesses to abide by the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. 81. Regarding the situation in ethnic border areas, the Government and, where applicable, the ethnic armed groups should: (a) Abide by humanitarian and human rights law in areas where armed conflict continues; (b) Establish a comprehensive system for monitoring the implementation of ceasefire and political agreements, which includes representation from civil society, community-based groups and the international community, and guarantee the freedom of movement of monitors; (c) Set a clear time frame for prompt progress towards political talks following the signing of a national ceasefire accord, and stick firmly to that timetable; (d) Ensure that political negotiations abide by the principles of participation, transparency, accountability, equality and non-discrimination, and 19