SVC-031 / Specialist intake
Certify a material recovery loop
Decision owner: Resources & Circular Industry Commission
REScommissionUnion-wide competence
Material custody without territorial ownership
Resources and Circular Industry governs accountable extraction, processing, recovery and closure. It serves community resource councils, operators, worker cooperatives and downstream material users. It is designed to replace a simple extraction licence with a full chain of material and public responsibility.
Choose your route
Office output: Extraction finding
Companies and cooperatives
SVC-030 / Specialist intake
License asteroid extraction activity
Decision owner: Resources & Circular Industry Commission
SVC-045 / Competent referral
Request public records
Decision owner: Archives, Libraries & Memory Commission
SVC-041 / Competent referral
Obtain legal aid remotely
Decision owner: Justice & Legal Cooperation Commission
People and households
SVC-045 / Competent referral
Request public records
Decision owner: Archives, Libraries & Memory Commission
SVC-041 / Competent referral
Obtain legal aid remotely
Decision owner: Justice & Legal Cooperation Commission
Research and civic organisations
SVC-045 / Competent referral
Request public records
Decision owner: Archives, Libraries & Memory Commission
SVC-041 / Competent referral
Obtain legal aid remotely
Decision owner: Justice & Legal Cooperation Commission
Public administrations
SVC-031 / Specialist intake
Certify a material recovery loop
Decision owner: Resources & Circular Industry Commission
SVC-030 / Specialist intake
License asteroid extraction activity
Decision owner: Resources & Circular Industry Commission
SVC-045 / Competent referral
Request public records
Decision owner: Archives, Libraries & Memory Commission
SVC-041 / Competent referral
Obtain legal aid remotely
Decision owner: Justice & Legal Cooperation Commission
Extraction, recovery and funded closure duties
Teams examine mining standards, custody ledgers, circular manufacturing, industrial chemistry, mine closure and community benefit agreements. A record follows material through blending, processing and transfer. It also preserves who must rehabilitate or safely retire the originating operation, even after the cargo has been sold or the sponsor changes.
The powers we hold and the powers we refer
An activity permission does not grant ownership of a celestial body or control over its residents. Labor & Livelihoods Commission protects workers, Environment & Commons Commission cumulative impacts, Planetary Protection Authority scientific protection and Trade & Single Market Commission market interfaces. A resource finding must disclose conditions that require a revised operating scope.
A case in practice
Illustrative case / RES
An asteroid processor mixes material from several cooperatives. The custody review checks whether each batch's provenance, quality and closure duties remain recoverable. A certified recovery loop names the actual return pathway and rejects claims based only on a planned recycling percentage. Community benefits and worker rights remain in separate enforceable records.
Responsibilities and programmes
Mining Standards
Mining Standards brings together asteroid excavation, lunar regolith work and dust containment.
Explore this programme →Resource Accounting
Resource Accounting brings together material inventories, yield verification and depletion reporting.
Explore this programme →Circular Manufacturing
Circular Manufacturing brings together repair networks, material recovery and reusable packaging.
Explore this programme →Industrial Chemistry
Industrial Chemistry brings together process safety, toxic material tracking and chemical recycling.
Explore this programme →Mine Closure
Mine Closure brings together site stabilization, financial assurance and legacy contamination.
Explore this programme →Community Resource Agreements
Community Resource Agreements brings together benefit sharing and worker cooperative concessions.
Explore this programme →Where our powers stop
Cannot grant ownership of celestial bodies; licenses cover defined activities and obligations.
Public records and accountability
RES/REGRecords and reasoned determinations
RES/CONTACTAnnual service plan; public decisions; performance and expenditure report.
Contact the competent office
Accessible assistance, evidence alternatives, institutional handoffs and review.