Legal Regulation of the Subsoil Use in Arctic Region

Abstract

Recently interest in Arctic areas show not only the eight Arctic countries. Its presence in the Arctic claim other countries in Europe, Asia, America, even those that are geographically located in a different hemisphere and are very difficult to call circumpolar. For example, the readiness to develop fields in the Arctic shelf areas declared Germany, Japan, India, South Korea, China, Brazil and about 20 more countries. Moreover, China, India, Singapore and some other countries are already developing strategies to use Arctic Northern Sea route. It is necessary note that at the constitutional level all Arctic countries in different ways (both directly and indirectly) regulate issues related to the Arctic. In particular, the provisions on the rights of indigenous peoples take place in most constitutions and are equally applicable to the Arctic region, as the number of indigenous peoples of the Arctic is about 400 thousand people. Besides that at the national level in each of the Arctic countries are the main program "Arctic Documents "and special" Arctic "legislation (except Finland and Sweden). In this study we considerate the main basic program documents and legal regulations governing this sector in Russia.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s1p63