Regulatory system for minerals exploitation
Official consideration and approval before mining
may commence
Exploration permits
More about exploration permits
Exploration work is not permitted
Contact with landowners
Official consideration and approval before
mining may commence
| 1. |
Exploration permit (undersökningstillstånd)
(survey of the bedrock) |
Mining Inspector |
| 2. |
Exploration work (undersökningsarbete)
(when the environment or land use is affected) |
County Administrative Board
etc.
Landowner |
| 3. |
Exploitation concession
(bearbetningskoncession)
(with environmental impact assessment and approval under chapters
3–4 of the Environmental Code) |
Mining Inspector
County Administrative Board etc.
(Government in case of disagreement) |
| 4. |
Permission under the Environmental
Code
(Chapter 9 of the Code) |
Environmental Court |
| 5. |
Designation of land (markanvisning)
|
Landowner
Mining Inspector |
| 6. |
Building permit etc. under
the Planning and Building Act |
Local authority |
Exploration permits
Longer-term exploration is subject to increasingly strict requirements:
| Years |
Conditions |
Annual
fee per hectare |
| 1–3 |
Reason, intention,
possibility |
SEK 4, 6 and 10, respectively |
| 4–6 |
Appropriate
exploration work carried out during years 1–3 |
SEK
21 |
| 7–10 |
Special grounds |
SEK 50 |
| 11–15 |
Exceptional
grounds |
SEK 100 |
An exploration report, with results (raw data), must be submitted to
the Mining Inspector.
More about exploration permits
An exploration permit entails:
- A preferential right to an exploitation concession
- Access to land for exploration work that does not damage the environment
or land use.
An exploration permit does not entitle the holder to undertake exploration
work that damages
- the environment – as assessed by the County Administrative
Board, or
- land use – the consent of the landowner is required if no security
is provided
Exploration work is not permitted, or is permitted
only on the basis of an exemption,
- in a national park (exploration work may not be permitted),
- in a nature or cultural reserve, contrary to the reserve regulations,
- in undisturbed mountain areas (obrutna fjällområden),
- if a "significant change to the natural environment" could
occur,
- if it entails cross-country driving on snow-free ground or across
snow-covered fields or sapling woods that could be damaged,
- if ancient monuments could be destroyed, altered or damaged,
- closer than 100 metres to the boundary of a site with a building,
- closer than 30 metres to a public highway, railway or airport,
- in an area covered by a detailed development plan or area regulations,
- in a militarily sensitive area,
- in an area designated for certain purposes,
- if security for compensation for encroachment has not been given,
and the landowner has not given consent.
Contact with landowners in connection with exploration
under the Minerals Act
- Every landowner in the area is to be notified of the decision to
grant a permit.
- The permit holder must give at least two weeks' notice of the exploration
work.
- Right to full compensation for damage and encroachment. The authorities
are to decide if agreement cannot be reached.
- The permit holder must provide security for compensation unless
otherwise agreed by the landowner.
- No exploration work closer than 100 metres to a site with a building.
Otherwise the landowner must be asked.
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