Plagioclase Protection Act (PPA).
What is the Plagioclase Protection Act? The Plagioclase Protection Act, referred to as "PPA", was initially a provision put in to place by Coam Lu'barret who was the head of a small mining organisation affiliated with ORE industry's, under contract by the Federation navy, to procure minerals for ongoing war efforts around the year of YC109. With the emergence of Capsule tech, the federation saw a sizable drop in the amount minerals they could procure as a result and needed to act quickly to ensure that their supply lines did not dry up. To that end the Federation took the PPA in its provisional form and submitted it to the Galenite Senate for Ratification in to Applied Law. a number of amendments were made in relation to what was monitored and where and the PPA was finally ratified as a Law in Quarter 4 of YC109.
List of constellations Protected by the PPA:
Beyt.
Disier.
Patrie.
Thoulde.
Permitted Actions under the PPA:
individuals participating in mining operations in the above mentioned constellations are permitted to mine all marked asteroids in designated areas and on designated moons as per the "Capsuleer Claim Authority (CCA)" . And resources gathered outside of Sanctioned areas will be considered illicit material and carriers of said product will be targeted and relieved of command pending trial and judgement (should such a judgement be required). individuals may engage pirate entities in these areas of space at will and will be rewarded for their service by Concord/DED affiliates directly.
Protected Areas:
there are a number of protected areas in the PPA. Most notably Seyllin 1 as a result of the events of March 10 YC 111, this is a Class 5 Protected Monolith and any attempted extraction operations will be seen as a breach of the PPA and offenders will be Destroyed on site. Other Areas may be temporally designated as Protected areas at short notice should extraction operations exceed issued limits as laid out in the "System availability index"
Mineral Order:
in the PPA there is a provision for individuals to Petition for a mineral order that will allow the holder to collect and transport prohibited minerals to a designated federation Navy Shipyard. these Ordered are time limited and system specific. should a holder deviate from a direct path (from pickup to delivery) then the order will be considered null & Void, this may result in the destruction of the holders ship by local security forces.
Capsuleer Claim Authority/Deployment Charter (CCA/DC):
This authority is issued by CONCORD to Corporations wishing to Deploy upwell Structures in protected areas of space, failure to inform PPSF forces of intent to apply for a CCADC before deploying a structure, in a protected system, will result in loss of infringing assets.
Enforcement:
Corporations can Apply to become PPA security Affiliates, allowing them to enforce the provisions laid out in the PPA. Plagioclase Protection Security Force (PPSF) members are permitted to hold suspects for inspection, and may hand out judgments or fines, failure to pay fines will result in the destruction of the suspects ship. PPSF members are permitted to lock down gates in less secure areas of space, requiring individuals wishing to transit the gate to supply a manifest of their cargo and a nominal payment to ensure safe transit. a transitors ship may be held after the first permitted transit of a gate to ensure that supplied manifests match scanned cargo reports.
ACT PROVISIONS
Provision 1: minerals mined in each protected system can not exceed 20% of the total available mass in that systems availability index.
Provision 2: individuals wishing to operate in protected systems are required to carry a Gallente signed charter and report this to local enforcement operatives before commencing extraction operations.
Provision 3: Systems will become "locked down" should their extraction index exceed that limit laid out in provision 1
Provision 5: Anti-Pirate operations can be carried out at the participants own risk, but may result in ship loss due to outside actors, in less secure areas of space (low sec)
Provision 6: High Security enforcement agents operate outside of CONCORDS derestriction but will enforce the PPA with Extreme prejudice.
Provision 7: Assets seized by PPSF forces are to be retained and transported to the nearest Federation Navy Shipyard for processing
Provision 8: PPSF members are permitted to hold, fine, and carry out summary judgment for individuals suspected of breaching any Provision of the PPA.
Provision 9: Holders of mineral orders are permitted to follow designated flight paths, failure to comply with this path will void any active mineral order and may result in enforcement action by PPSF members, as Laid out in provisions 6,7, & 8.