In implementing provisions of the Minerals Act, this Regulation provides for the application for an exploration permit, decision concerning exploration permit, extension of the period of exploration, fees, granting of exploitation concessions, and proceedings for the designation of land, and contains detailed provisions regarding restrictions on to exploration works. An application for an exploration permit shall be made in writing and shall be submitted to the Mining Inspector in accordance with article 1 and following.

The present Law shall define organizational, economic and legal terms and conditions of foreign concessions in Turkmenistan. A concession shall provide for the right given by the state to a foreign legal entity or a natural person – a concessionaire – to use plots of land, natural resources, enterprises and other assets on the basis of an agreement for a specified period of time and in return for a payment. Concession activity in Turkmenistan is carried out in accordance with the following principles: rational use of natural resources, ensuring ecological, sanitary and hygienic safety.

This Decision of the Minister of Finance provides for issuing the Regulation on rents applicable to foreign investors who rent land, or water expanses or sea areas in order to conduct their operations (agricultural, infrastructure etc. etc.) Rent Coefficients shall be calculated for urban, non urban land, water( meaning river and lakes) and sea on specific parameters.

The Act is divided in the following Chapters for a total of 66 Articles: (I) General Provisions; (II) Control and Management; (III) Upstream Business Activities; (IV) Downstream Business Activities; (V) State Earnings; (VI) Relationship between the oil and natural gas business activities and the right on land; (VII) Development and Supervision; (VIII) Executive body and regulating body; (IX) Investigation; (X) Criminal Provisions; (XI) Transitional Provisions; (XII) Concluding Provisions.

The Government, for the purpose of stimulation of carrying out arrangements for protection and reproduction of wildlife species by the hunters at their own expenses, recommends regional executive bodies to concede to the hunters hunting grounds for hunting management for a period of not less than 25 years; to concede to the hunting associations free-of-charge out of the stock of public land and state stock of forest plots of land and hayfields calculated in proportion of 1 hectare for 10 thousand hectares of allotted hunting grounds; to issue to the hunters permits (licences) free-of-charge

La presente Ley de tierras baldías y ejidos establece que son baldíos todos los terrenos que no sean ejidos ni propiedad particular ni pertenezcan legítimamente a corporaciones o personas jurídicas, considerando también como baldíos, y la Nación entra desde luego a poseerlos, los terrenos ejidos que han quedado abandonados por la extinción, comprobada oficialmente, del dominio que en ellos ejercía el Municipio.

This Dispatch, composed of 2 articles, institutes the Unit for the Coordination and Technical Assistance for the production units’ concession. This Unit, a body of the Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries, is responsible for the organization and direction and control of all the processes dealing with citizen’s involvement in the management of production units.

Implements: Decree-Law No. 32/87 on State’s withdrawal from the management of production units. (1987-12-17)

This Decree, composed of 10 articles, implements some principles set forth under the Decree-Law No. 32/87 on State’s withdrawal from the management of production units. In particular, the Decree regulates: the procedures for the production units’ assignment to collective or individual users, the contracts, the procedures for requesting a concession. Finally, it indicates the related managing authorities.

Implements: Decree-Law No. 32/87 on State’s withdrawal from the management of production units. (1987-12-17)

This Decree-Law, composed of 4 articles, indicates the dependencies to be detached from their respective companies for the purposes of the Policy for Citizen’s Involvement in the Country’s Economic Reconstruction and the related land concession programme.

This Decree-Law, composed of 39 articles, rules on State’s withdrawal from the management of production units. To this end, it stipulates that the Government shall implement development programmes, as well as define the guidelines for the zoning of the production units to be assigned. The Decree-Law indicates the procedures for State withdrawal, the applicable concession regime, the forbidden property concessions, and the admitted applicants.

This Resolution is composed of 11 articles. The High Committee for Agricultural Dispute-Settlement established by Cabinet Resolution No. 49 of 1990 shall carry out the implementation of this Resolution (art. 1).

The present Law regulates legal relations in the sphere of privatization of state property including privatization of unfinished constructions. Unfinished constructions are considered objects that have validated project and allotted plot of land on which construction has not started. Object of privatization is also the right to prospect the stock of subsoil and natural resources. The document consists of VII Secs. that contain 35 Arts. Section I (arts. 1-11) lays down general provisions. Section II (Arts. 12-13) establishes competence of state bodies in the sphere of privatization.