Regional Law No. 334-OZ “On state regulation of subsoil management”. Country/Territory Russian Federation Territorial subdivision Omsk Document type Legislation Date 2001 (2009) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Mineral resources, Water Keyword Exploration Mining Minerals Authorization/permit Groundwater Geographical area Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Entry into force notes This Regional Law enters into force on 1 January 2002. Abstract All the mineral deposits, including groundwater, present on the regional territory, shall be public property. This Regional Law delimits plenary powers of the regional state bodies in the sphere of subsoil management of plots of subsoil of local significance containing common widespread minerals, including groundwater, as follows: (a) Regional Legislative Assembly shall be responsible for law-making; (b) Regional Government shall be responsible for validation of rules and regulations in the sphere of exploration and mining with a view of extraction of common widespread minerals; and (c) authorized regional executive body shall be responsible for public expertise of geological data, issuance of exploration and mining authorization and exploration and mining licences. Full text Russian Website www.regionz.ru References - Legislation Amended by Regional Law No. 1728-OZ amending Regional Law No. 334-OZ “On state regulation of subsoil management”. Legislation | Russian Federation | 2015 Keyword: Concession, Exploration, Mining, Groundwater Source: FAO, FAOLEX Regional Law No. 1751-OZ amending Regional Law No. 334-OZ “On state regulation of subsoil management”. Legislation | Russian Federation | 2015 Keyword: Mining, Minerals Source: FAO, FAOLEX Regional Law No. 1816-OZ amending Regional Law No. 334-OZ “On state regulation of subsoil management”. Legislation | Russian Federation | 2015 Keyword: Data collection/reporting, Access-to-information Source: FAO, FAOLEX