Problems of Legal Regulation of Associated Petroleum Gas Processing. Legislation, Jurisprudence and Proposals de Lege Ferenda

This article is devoted to the problems of legal regulation of relations between participants in the process of associated petroleum gas processing, current legislation, their reflection and ways of resolution in judicial practice and in doctrinal sources. Russian legislation attaching legal significance to processing - in particular, processing is a legal basis for the acquisition of ownership either by the person who owns the primary raw materials or other materials for processing, or by the person who carried out the processing (Article 220 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation), refrains from specifying this concept. Questions are raised by the legal content of the processing process. Therefore, if the utilization of associated gas is processing, then its flaring cannot be called such. This article also reflects the problem of the courts' qualification of exceeding the quota for associated gas flaring as an administrative offense. Exceeding this quota is subject to administrative responsibility - this act constitutes an administrative offense provided for in part 1 of Article 8.10 of the Administrative Code. At the same time, part 2 of Article 7.3 of the same regulatory legal act provides for liability for committing a similar offense. However, the courts make decisions based on Part 1 of Article 8.10 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, which currently does not have a high-quality legal basis.

civil law, gas extraction, gas production, associated gas , recycle, gas burning, gas utilization , liability for non-rational subsoil use, fundamental violation of mining license terms, mining license (permit)

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