Juridical actualities on the use of the resourses of the entrails of the earth

Abstract

Mineral resources occupy significant part in the national property of the state and should be properly recorded, protected, rationally used, their territories should be properly planned and society should be acquainted with the problems of the use of mineral resources. Only with reliable information on the underground resources, their use, processes and problems occurring in them it is I possible to properly improve their territory planning. Territory planning is one of the first works preserving and using the underground resources. Possibilities to properly use underground resources depend upon the quality of the fulfilment of these works. The aim of the article was to analyse the territory planning of the deposits of mineral resources as well as problems that persons, wishing to use mineral resources, deal with. The object of the investigation was the territory of the Republic of Lithuania and mineral resources. Tasks to be sold were as follows: to analyse restoration of ownership rights in the territories of mineral resources, the territory planning of the deposits of mineral resources as well as problems connected with it, legal acts regulating these processes; to discuss permissions for the location and extraction of mineral resources; to discuss the Registry of underground resources; to discuss the fertile soil layer preservation and the recultivation of quarries.