Applying for a transfer of the mining license

• You can apply for the transfer of your permit online via the "BergPass" platform or in writing to your competent mountain authority.
• Apply for a permit transfer online:
• Go to the "BergPass" online platform and log in.
  • To register, you will need a BundID and an identity card or residence permit with an active online ID function.
• Call up the application form and fill it out completely and truthfully.
• Upload the required documents as a file and send the application.

Apply for the transfer of a permit in writing:

• Contact your responsible mining authority and coordinate the required application documents.

• The competent authority will check your application and the documents submitted. If any documents are missing, they will contact you.
• You will receive a notification by post informing you of the decision on your application. In addition, the decision will be sent electronically to the relevant mailbox (BundID or ELSTER company account) in advance and information will be displayed in BergPass.
• You will also receive a notification of costs. Pay the fees.

Please contact the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Geology and Mining (LGB).

• Third parties must undertake, at the request of the competent mining authority
  • disclose the results of your exploration work to the authority immediately after its completion, at the latest when the permit expires (annual report or final report),
  • to involve other organizations that also have an exploration permit and are searching for the same mineral resource in your commercial exploration areas in your exploration project or to be represented in this,
    • if your project serves scientific purposes: the holders of a permit for exploration for commercial purposes,
    • if your project is for large-scale exploration: the holders of a permit for exploration for commercial purposes or an authorization or the owners of mines,
• You, or your representatives, must have the necessary legal reliability.
• You must demonstrate that you can provide the necessary financing for proper exploration.
• You must be able to demonstrate that your exploration project will not jeopardize the exploration and extraction of non-mining or mined natural resources.
• Your exploration project must not impair any mineral resources whose protection is in the public interest.
• Your exploration project must not affect any overriding public interests that preclude the search in the entire field to be allocated, for example environmental and animal protection.

• Contract of sale
• Obligation,
  • to disclose the results of your exploration work to the authorities immediately after its completion, at the latest when the permit expires (annual report or final report),
  • to involve other organizations that also hold an exploration permit and are searching for the same mineral resource in your commercial exploration areas in your exploration project or to be represented in this,
    • if your project is for scientific purposes: the holders of a permit for exploration for commercial purposes
    • if your project is for large-scale exploration: the holders of a permit for exploration for commercial purposes or an authorization or the owners of mines,
• Documents proving the necessary financing for proper exploration.

• § Section 22 (1) of the Federal Mining Act (BBergG)
• § Section 11 numbers 4 to 10 of the Federal Mining Act (BBergG)
• § Section 12 (1) sentence 1 of the Federal Mining Act (BBergG)

• Objection processed by the competent mining authority
• If necessary, subsequent appeal to the administrative court

09.12.2024