6. Who regulates and controls subsoil use operations in the Kyrgyz Republic?

- The Government administers and manages the state subsoil fund of the Kyrgyz Republic, approves technical regulations in mining, restrictions and prohibitions on the use of natural resources in order to ensure national security, public safety and environmental protection;
- Ministry of Economy is the authorized body for the development of public policy on subsoil use, including the legal acts in mining sector, investment policy in the subsoil;
- Geology Agency is the authorized body for the implementation of state policy on subsoil use, including a system of organizing the right to use natural resources and land, attracts investment, maintains the State balance of mineral reserves and State cadaster of deposits and occurrences of minerals, issues, suspends and terminates the subsoil use right, examines mining and geological projects, controls the use and protection of subsoil for geological study and industrial development of the subsoil;
- State Inspectorate for Environmental and Technical Safety is the authorized body that supervises environmental and industrial security within the geological, mining and land leases and controls enforcement of environmental laws and industrial safety in the geological study and development of the subsoil;
- State Agency on Environment Protection and Forestry is the authorized body for implementation of policy and the regulation of relations in the sphere of environmental protection and use of natural resources, environmental safety and environmental management.