Federal Law "On Subsoil"

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Field Value
Sector Oil and Gas
Country Russian Federation
Year
RGI Edition Year 2017
Topic Contract transparency and monitoring, Legislation and regulation, Licensing and negotiation, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Open data, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, Subnational governance
Document Type Statute
RGI Sub-component Licensing
RGI Questions 1.1a: How does the country legally define the ownership of subsoil extractive resources?,
1.1.9a: Is the government required to publicly disclose all signed licenses/contracts with extractive companies?,
1.1.3b: Prior to each licensing process, is the licensing authority required to disclose a list of biddable terms or negotiable terms?,
1.1.5c: Following the licensing process, is the licensing authority required to publicly disclose the list of areas or blocks allocated?,
1.1.10d: Is the legislature required to ratify licenses/contracts?,
1.3.4a: From 2015 onwards, have environmental mitigation management plans been publicly disclosed?,
2.2c: Do rules specify that subnational governments of producing areas should receive a higher share of extractive resource revenues than those of non-producing areas?
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Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice Law and
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Publisher Official Russian legislation
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Maintainer Natural Resource Governance Institute
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