Registration of Rights to Public Land Plots for the Purposes of Development of Mineral Resources: Practical Aspects

The author comes to the conclusion that current problems associated with the registration of rights to a land plot are largely provoked by conflict of laws rules or gaps in the legislation. We are talking, first of all, about determining the spatial boundaries of a land plot that a subsoil user can lease without bidding, as well as about transferring an agricultural land plot into industrial land. In the latter case, difficulties arise due to the wording of the Law “On Transfer” regarding references to town-planning documents, as well as the need to provide a reclamation project. The article highlights the changing approach of judicial practice to the interpretation of the term “exclusive right” and the negative consequences of the lack of support from Rosnedra when registering rights to a land plot.