MANE MARKOSYAN
Ph.D. Student at the Chair of Civil Law,
Faculty of Law, YSU,
Prosecutor General’s Office of the RA,
Adviser to the Prosecutor General of the RA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59546/18290744-2025.7-9-36
Annotation.
In the article, the author discussed the concept of a subsoil use contract, the legislative regulation issues and characteristics of contractual relations in subsoil use, directions for the development of legislation in this context, as well as the elements of a subsoil use contract.
As a result of studying the RA Subsoil Code, the author concluded that under the current domestic legal regulations, the term «subsoil use contract» is used as a collective concept for all contracts concluded for the purpose of granting the right to use subsoil and does not have an independent meaning.
Based on the study of the essential terms of subsoil use contracts, the author identified the common essential terms that apply to all such contracts. The peculiarities of systematizing the essential terms of subsoil use contracts by law, as well as defining essential terms specific to particular types of subsoil use contracts were also addressed. Furthermore, the author examined the legal significance of the terms comprising the content of subsoil use contracts, as approved by the annexes to the RA Government Decision No. 437-N of March 22, 2022.
The author proposed to unify the legal norms regulating contractual relations in the field of subsoil use under the RA Subsoil Code by including a separate chapter dedicated to contracts concluded in the subsoil use sector, and to systematize the essential terms of subsoil use contracts based on the analysis presented in the study.
