Law on Mineral Resources in the Russian Federation

Subsoil is part of the earth's crust, which is located beneath the soil layer. If there is none, the location of the subsoil is below the surface of the earth, and also below the watercourses and the bottom of the reservoirs, which extend to the depths available for exploration and geological study.

The current Law on Subsoil controls the relations that arise as a result of geological study, protection and use of subsurface resources in the territory of the Russian Federation, its shelf, and also as a result of the use of waste from mining and associated processing industries (sapropels, peat and other resources, including brine limes and lakes , As well as groundwater).

The current law contains economic and legal bases for the protection of subsoil and integrated rational use thereof. This Subsoil Law provides both protection of Russian citizens and the state itself, including the rights of subsoil users. The effect of this law is widespread throughout the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as on its continental shelf.

The Law on the Subsurface of the RF is based on the Constitution and consists both of the current law with other federal laws adopted in accordance with it, as well as of other normative acts, as well as of laws and other legal acts of the subjects of our country.

Ownership of subsoil

The property of the state is not only the sites located on the territory of the Russian Federation and the corresponding underground space, but also in the bowels of energy and other resources, as well as minerals. Ownership, disposal and use of subsoil is carried out jointly by the Russian Federation and its subjects.

The subsoil law says that subsoil plots can not be sold, bought, donated or inherited, or invested or alienated in any other way. The rights to use subsoil may be transferred from one entity to another or be alienated exclusively in cases that the Federal Subsoil Law may permit.

Minerals and other resources that were extracted from the bowels, under the terms of licensing can be both in the ownership of the subjects of the Russian Federation, as well as in private, municipal, federal state property, as well as in other possible forms of ownership.

What is the reserve fund for?

The reserve reserve fund is formed in order to ensure in the future the needs of the Russian Federation in both strategic and deficit types of fossils from those subsoil plots that have not yet been provided for use. The Subsoil Law does not allow the use of those sites that are part of the reserve fund until such time as a decision is made to exclude them from the reserve fund.

Decisions on the inclusion or exclusion of subsoil plots from the federal fund shall be made by the Government of the Russian Federation upon submission by the executive authority - in the event that the other is not established by federal law.

Gosnadzor for the study, protection and rational use of mineral resources

The main task of state supervision is the prevention, detection and suppression of violations of users of mineral resources, as required by international treaties of the Russian Federation and the RF legislation on subsoil, as well as rules, norms, standards in the field of geological studies, protection and rational use of mineral resources approved by the law of the Russian Federation in accordance with the established procedure.

The state supervision is exercised by the executive power, or rather by an authorized federal body - such as federal state supervision, and also by regional state supervision, according to their competence, in the manner established by the supreme executive body of the state power of our country and its government.