Where can information about granted licences be found?
Register of licences
Legal base
- Owner
- Extraction sites to which the mining right refers
- Date of the application and granting of the right
- Term
- Natural resource(s) to which the mining right refers
Permits and authorisations for mining exploration can also be inspected as a result of the legal amendment.
All hydrocarbon-segment mining licences in Germany can also be viewed in the annual publication “Erdöl und Erdgas in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland” (Crude oil and natural gas in the Federal Republic of Germany).
You can find an overview of all mining rights at:
view data
Example of an online system: the NiBiS map server
One good example of the publication of information on mining rights on the Internet is the NIBIS map server of the Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG). On this website, citizens can obtain information about 400 specialist maps on topics such as contaminated sites, mining, soil science, erosion, geology, geothermal energy, geophysics, hydrogeology, geologic engineering, climate and natural resources. With regard to mining rights, the NIBIS regularly makes the following data available for viewing by the public on the map server for the Federal States of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein:
- Information about the licence holder
- Coordinates of the licensed area
- Date the licence was granted and term of the licence.
- Type of natural resource
Mining rights in the NiBiS map server
