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Law No. 2665-III on oil and gas.

Pays/Territoire
Ukraine
Type du document
Législation
Date
2001 (2005)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Sujet
Énergie
Mot clé
Législation de base Hydrocarbures Gaz naturel Normes environnementales Autorisation/permis Enregistrement Éco-audit Normes Protection de l’environnement
Aire géographique
Mer Noire, CEI (Communauté des États indépendants), Europe de l'Est, Europe, Europe et Asie Centrale
Entry into force notes
The Law enters into force from the date of its official publication.
Résumé

The present Law establishes legal, economic and organizational basis for the functioning of oil and gas industry, regulates the relations in the sphere of management of oil-and-gas bearing subsoil, extraction, transportation, conservation and management of oil and gas and the derivates thereof. The present Law is applicable to the relations originating from geological study of oil-and-gas bearing subsoil, management of oil and gas fields, conservation, transportation and trade of oil, gas and derivates thereof by the participants of the aforesaid relations irrespectively of their form of property (art. 2). The state policy in the sphere of oil and gas shall be based upon the following principles: 1) state management and regulation; 2) safe exploitation of the objects of oil and gas sphere; 3) exploitation of the objects of oil and gas industry in conformity with environmental standards (art. 5). The right of ownership of oil and gas resources available within the territorial boundaries of Ukraine, its territorial waters and EEZ pertains to the people of Ukraine (art. 10). Management of oil and gas fields, prospecting and extraction of oil and gas shall be carried in conformity with special authorization issued by the authorized institution (art. 11). Special authorization for geological study of oil and gas fields shall be issued for the period of up to five years on land and for the period of up to 10 years for carrying out the aforesaid activity on the continental shelf and in the EEZ; for the industrial extraction of oil and gas on land for the period not exceeding twenty years and for the same activity carried out on the continental shelf and in the EEZ for the period not exceeding thirty years (art. 17). The authorized institution in the sphere of mining shall carry out the state inspection in the sphere of geological study and exploitation of oil-and-gas fields (art. 29). Activity related to geological study of subsoil shall be subject to the compulsory registration (art. 31). Underground deposits of oil and gas and derivates thereof shall pertain to the state property (art. 40). The projects of prospecting of oil and gas on the land of protected areas, recreational land and land of cultural heritage shall be subject to the compulsory environmental audit (art. 45).

Texte intégral
Ukrainien
Site web
www.rada.kiev.ua

Références - Législation

Implementé par

Ministerial Decree No. 57 validating the Regulation on the modalities of putting out of operation oil-trunk pipelines assigned to the state enterprises of gas-and-oil producing industry.

Législation | Ukraine | 2005

Mot clé: Hydrocarbures, Transport/dépôt, Autorisation/permis, Risques

Source: FAO, FAOLEX