SVC-036 / Specialist intake
Propose a Mars engineering trial
Decision owner: Planetary Engineering & Terraforming Commission
TERFcommissionUnion-wide competence
Independent scrutiny before planetary commitments
Planetary Engineering and Terraforming is a bounded proposal and long-horizon stewardship institution, not a promise that a world can or should be transformed. It serves research sponsors, affected communities, ecological reviewers and future-generation representatives. Its purpose is to expose scope, uncertainty, reversibility and inherited duties before irreversible commitments are made.
Choose your route
Office output: Trial register
Research and civic organisations
SVC-010 / Competent referral
Obtain a public works review
Decision owner: Infrastructure & Public Works Commission
SVC-057 / Competent referral
Accredit a calibration laboratory
Decision owner: Standards, Time & Measurement Authority
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-010 / Competent referral
Obtain a public works review
Decision owner: Infrastructure & Public Works 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
Companies and cooperatives
SVC-036 / Specialist intake
Propose a Mars engineering trial
Decision owner: Planetary Engineering & Terraforming Commission
SVC-010 / Competent referral
Obtain a public works review
Decision owner: Infrastructure & Public Works Commission
SVC-021 / Competent referral
Ship goods from Earth to Mars
Decision owner: Trade & Single Market Commission
SVC-057 / Competent referral
Accredit a calibration laboratory
Decision owner: Standards, Time & Measurement Authority
SVC-045 / Competent referral
Request public records
Decision owner: Archives, Libraries & Memory Commission
Public administrations
SVC-036 / Specialist intake
Propose a Mars engineering trial
Decision owner: Planetary Engineering & Terraforming Commission
SVC-010 / Competent referral
Obtain a public works review
Decision owner: Infrastructure & Public Works Commission
SVC-021 / Competent referral
Ship goods from Earth to Mars
Decision owner: Trade & Single Market Commission
SVC-057 / Competent referral
Accredit a calibration laboratory
Decision owner: Standards, Time & Measurement Authority
SVC-045 / Competent referral
Request public records
Decision owner: Archives, Libraries & Memory Commission
Bounded trials, reversibility and stop conditions
Directorates distinguish feasibility science, enclosed ecosystems, climate intervention review, field trials, consent and long-term custody. A habitat experiment, local engineering trial and planetary-scale proposal are different activities. Each has a declared area, evidence method, stop condition, successor duty and independently reviewed protection status.
The powers we hold and the powers we refer
No sponsor can approve its own Planetary Protection Authority clearance or substitute a construction permit for planetary consent. Environment & Commons Commission reviews cumulative effects and Bioethics & Future Generations Council future burdens. Feasibility work can publish a negative finding without being treated as a failed public institution or pressured to recommend deployment.
A case in practice
Illustrative case / TERF
A Mars sponsor proposes a small engineering trial near an enclosed settlement. The review separates the settlement's utility benefit from the trial's scientific footprint. Independent protection objections are resolved before field work, and an agreed stop condition is not waived because the sponsor's delivery schedule changes.
Responsibilities and programmes
Feasibility Science
Feasibility Science brings together mars atmosphere scenarios, venus intervention scenarios and energy and mass budgets.
Explore this programme →Enclosed Ecosystems
Enclosed Ecosystems brings together biosphere testbeds, habitat climate trials and reversibility experiments.
Explore this programme →Climate Intervention Review
Climate Intervention Review brings together model validation, unintended effects review and stopping criteria.
Explore this programme →Planetary Engineering Trials
Planetary Engineering Trials brings together robotic pilot sites and contained field trials.
Explore this programme →Ethics & Consent
Ethics & Consent brings together regional consent processes, future-generation review and science preserve exclusions.
Explore this programme →Long-Horizon Stewardship
Long-Horizon Stewardship brings together century-scale monitoring, restoration obligations and project succession plans.
Explore this programme →Where our powers stop
No full planetary transformation without evidence review, public consent and protection clearance; current feasibility is not assumed.
Public records and accountability
TERF/REGRecords and reasoned determinations
TERF/CONTACTAnnual service plan; public decisions; performance and expenditure report.
Contact the competent office
Accessible assistance, evidence alternatives, institutional handoffs and review.