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Production licence

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Bewilligung (deutsche Version)

Whoever wishes to mine freely mineable resources requires a production licence according to § 8 of the Mining Law or the mining proprietorship (more recently) according to § 9 of the Mining Law. Licences are granted by the responsible authorities. For the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen, the German continental shelf of the North Sea and a part of the German continental shelf of the Baltic Sea this is the State Authority for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG). Both the production licence as well as the mining proprietorship guarantees the exclusive right to explore and mine mineable resources within a certain site (licence area) as well as acquire the mineable resources as property. The licence area has limited aboveground sites but extends to an "eternal depth" and theoretically to the centre of the earth.

The granting of a production licence does not entitle the holder to actual exploration or mining activities but solely provides a legal right with which he on the grounds of proving suitability can solely carry out exploration and mining activities in the allocated licence area. Actual exploration and mining activities may only be carried out on the grounds of authorized operation plans (§ 51 ff of the Mining Law).

The requirements for the application for production licences are to be taken from Appendix 2 of the decreed directives.

Legally binding information from the mining authorizations book and the mining authorizations map (§ 75 of the Mining Law) can be obtained from the section 2.7 – faculty mine surveying.

An overview on the mining licences granted (spatial extent, holder, allocation time periods etc.) can be found on our NIBIS® MAPSERVER.

Bewilligung

Production licence

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