Legal Basics of Mineral Policy in Europe

Günter Tiess graduated as an Engineer in Natural Resources Management from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria. Then he obtained a Ph.D. degree at the same University, title of dissertation "Mining Law in the stress field between environmental protection and land use planning ". He is currently working at the University of Leoben, his main research topics are international mineral policy, mining and sustainability (legal, ecological, technological aspects). Since it was always his great interest he started study of law at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz (Styria). During his work in Leoben his interest in the topic of legal basis principles in the field of minerals exploration and exploitation, and subsequently, for minerals policy grew. The study of law and the research in the field of mineral resources and mineral policy, led to the publication of "Legal Basics of Mineral Policy in Europe"and, in due course, to his second book "General and International Mineral Policy". If interested persons wish to contact him, he will be pleased if they contact him through his homepage (www.rohstoffpolitik.com).

1 Introduction 1.1 Importance of the Minerals Supply 1.2 Legal basic 1.3 Requirements of a Mining Law 2 Albania 2.1 General Facts 2.2 Raw Material production 2.3 Normative Basics 3 Austria 3.1 General 3.2 Raw Material production 3.3 Normative Basics 4 Belarus 4.1 General Facts 4.2 Raw material production 4.3 Normative Basics 5 Belgium 5.1 General Facts 5.2 Raw material production 5.3 Normative Basics 6 Bulgaria 6.1 General 6.2 Raw Material production 6.3 Normative Basics 7 Croatia 7.1 General Facts 7.2 Raw material production 7.3 Normative Basics 8 Cyprus 8.1 General Facts 8.2 Raw material production 8.3 Normative Basics 9 Czech Republic 9.1 General Facts 9.2 Raw material production 9.3 Normative Basics 10 Denmark 10.1 General Facts 10.2 Raw material production 10.3 Normative Basics 11 Estonia 11.1 General Facts 11.2 Raw material production 11.3 Normative Basics 12 Finland 12.1 General 12.2 Raw Material Production 12.3 Normative Basics 13 France 13.1 General Facts 13.2 Raw material production 13.3 Normative Basics 14 Germany 14.1 General 14.2 Raw Material Production 14.3 Normative Basics 15 Greece 15.1 General Facts 15.2 Raw material production 15.3 Normative Basics 16 Hungary 16.1 General 16.2 Raw Material production 16.3 Normative Basics 17 Iceland 17.1 General Facts 17.2 Raw material production 17.3 Normative Basics 18 Ireland 18.1 General 18.2 Raw Material Production 18.3 Normative Basics 19 Italy 19.1 General Facts 19.2 Raw material production 19.3 Normative Basics 20 Kosovo 20.1 General 20.2 Raw Material production 20.3 Normative Basics 21 Latvia 21.1 General Facts 21.2 Raw material production 21.3 Normative Basics 22 Lithuania 22.1 General Facts 22.2 Raw material production 22.3 Normative Basics 23 Luxembourg 23.1 General Facts 23.2 Normative Basics 24 Macedonia 24.1 General Facts 24.2 Raw material production 24.3 Normative Basics 25 Malta 25.1 General Facts 25.2 Raw material production 25.3 Normative Basics 26 Moldavia 26.1 General Facts 26.2 Raw material production 26.3 Normative Basics 27 Netherlands 27.1 General Facts 27.2 Raw material production 27.3 Normative Basics 28 Norway 28.1 General 28.2 Raw Material production 28.3 Normative Basics 29 Poland 29.1 General 29.2 Raw Material production 29.3 Normative Basics 30 Portugal 30.1 General Facts 30.2 Raw material production 30.3 Normative Basics 31 Romania 31.1 General 31.2 Raw Material production 31.3 Normative Basics 32 Russian Federation 32.1 General 32.2 Raw Material production 33 Serbia 33.1 General 33.2 Raw Material production 33.3 Normative Basics 34 Slovakia 34.1 General Facts 34.2 Raw material production 34.3 Normative Basics 35 Slovenia 35.1 General Facts 35.2 Raw material production 35.3 Normative Basics 36 Spain 36.1 General Facts 36.2 Raw material production 36.3 Normative Basics 37 Sweden 37.1 General 37.2 Raw Material production 37.3 Normative Basics 38 Switzerland 38.1 General 38.2 Raw Material production 38.3 Normative Basics 39 Turkey 39.1 General Facts 39.2 Raw material production 39.3 Normative Basics 40 Ukraine 40.1 General 40.2 Raw Material production 40.3 Normative Basics 41 United Kingdom 41.1 General Facts 41.2 Raw material production 41.3 Normative Basics 42 References