In this paper, a new Use-based usage CONtrol (UseCON) approach that supports recording of usages with the help of a new entity, named use, is presented. Uses provide information for the latest state (requested, active, denied, completed or terminated) of every usage and facilitate the fine-grained definition and proper association of attributes to various system entities. The proposed approach provides enhanced contextual information modeling, support of complicated access modes and an alternative approach in obligations modeling. Moreover, UseCON is characterized by high expressiveness and ability to define policy rules in almost natural language.