Mining Law Committee home

• Model Mining Development Agreement Project
• Featured publications - committee newsletter; article about the committee from African Power, Mining and Oil Review
• North Sea Energy Law Programme - advanced teaching programme for practitioners 

Model Mining Development Agreement Project

• The Model Mining Development Agreement (MMDA) Project is an effort by the committee to prepare a tool to improve transparency, quality and results of contract negotiations between host states and mining companies. It intends to take into account the experience of practitioners on all sides, and insights from academics, government and industry.
  
  Access the MMDA website and a preliminary draft outline of the agreement  - we are actively seeking comments.
  Username: mmda
  Password: pr00f ('00' is two zeros)
  The committee aims to present version 1.0 of the MMDA at the IBA's Annual Conference in Vancouver.
  
  Two international consultations have taken place in 2010; the first at the World Mines Ministries Forum in Toronto in March and the second, a civil society forum held in Toronto immediately before the SEERIL biennial meeting. The consultations have served to clarify the vision and purpose of the project. Further consultations are due to take place in Kazakhstan and Ethiopia.

Featured publications:

• Mining Law Committee Newsletter August 2010
  The committee publishes a quarterly newsletter on matters of current interest, to which contributions are most welcome. In order to contribute, please contact the newsletter editor, handredumont@mcguirewoods.com.
  Newsletter guidelines for authors
  
• Article on Committee Chair, Peter Leon and the Mining Law Committee in African Power, Mining and Oil Review, second quarter 2009
  Chair Peter Leon announces the committee's new project on a best practice regulatory model for the international mining industry and describes the connection of the project to security of tenure, a need for such model in Africa as well as to the sustainability of the industry.

North Sea Energy Law Programme

• The North Sea Energy Law Programme is an advanced programme for practitioners covering all aspects of energy law. It is offered by the Universities of Groningen (the Netherlands), Oslo (Norway), Aberdeen (UK) and Copenhagen (Denmark). The programme is structured to accommodate the busy professional through concentrated periods of teaching. Each of the four courses is taught in two-week blocks. Click here for more information