Owing to the work of State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources, United Nations official Report of the UN ECE Ad Hoc Group of Experts noticed that Ukraine is the first among the European Community countries to implement United Nations Framework Classification for Fossil Energy and Mineral Reserves and Resources 2009 at the state level.
Committed partners of SCMR are:
- World Energy Council (WEC)
- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
- Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and state company “Statoil”
- Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards (CRIRSCO)
- European Federation of Geologists (EFG)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
- All-Russian Research Institute of Economy and Exploration of Mineral Resources (VIEMS)
- Federal State Institution “State Commission on Mineral Resources” (ФГУ ГКЗ)
- Australasian Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC)
- South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and others
Scientific and technical activity of SCMR is aimed to harmonize the Classification of Mineral Reserves and Resources the State Subsoil Fund of Ukraine with the classification schemes of world’s leading organizations such as CRIRSCO (Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards) and SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) in order to create conditions for the comparison of mineral reserves, calculated according to different systems.