A task force to advise on ASM legal and regulatory framework was established by an Order by the Minister of Minerals and Energy. The task force includes representatives from government, non-governmental organizations, and international programmes and projects. Main objective of the task force is to assist the Government of Mongolia (the Ministry of Minerals and Energy) in the development of ASM policy and regulatory environment and identification of gaps existing in the current legal and regulatory framework in the country. Please download its proposed tasks and work schedule.

In September 2007, the Communities and Small-scale Mining Initiative (annual CASM-7) was hosted in Mongolia. During the conference the Government of Mongolia organized a roundtable for the participants including international experts, national government officials, and Parliamentarians with the objective to exchange experiences related with the proposed Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASSM) regulatory framework. The meeting gave the opportunity for international experts to learn about the current initiative of Mongolia government to develop a specific law for the Small Scale Mining sector. As part of this meeting the international experts had the opportunity to express opinions and recommendations based on their experiences. One of the experts attended the roundtable discussion, Maria Laura Barreto, PhD Director of Materials Efficiency Research Group - MERG, has provided her comments to the draft ASM law in Mongolia (to download detailed comments in English).     

Revisions made to the draft ASM law -/draft law revised  - татаж авах/

Final discussion of the draft law by the Standing Commitee
Draft law /төсөл татаж авах/ incorporated with the comments by the Parliament discussion

11 Parliament Members initiated a draft Law on Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) and submitted it to the Parliament for discussion. Following its submission, another draft Law on Artisanal Mining was developed and submitted by the Government to the Parliament. Both the drafts were accepted and discussed on the Parliament session and a decision to combine the drafts into one draft law was made. 

The draft laws were presented and discussed by the Standing Committee on Economics and the Mongolian People's Revolution Party Group members and combined into a draft Law on ASM. The combined draft Law on ASM was submitted to a Parliament session for its first discussion.