TY - JOUR N2 - The national power industry is based primarily on its own energy mineral resources such as hard and brown coal. Approximately 80% of electrical energy production from these minerals gives us complete energy independence and the cost of its production from coal is the lowest in comparison to other sources. Poland has, for many decades had vast resources of these minerals, the experience of their extraction and processing, the scientific-design facilities and technical factories manufacturing machines and equipment for own needs, as well as for export. Nowadays coal is and should be an important source of electrical energy and heat for the next 25–50 years, because it is one of the most reliable and price acceptable energy sources. This policy may be disturbed over the coming decades due to the depletion of active resources of hard and brown coal. The conditions for new mines development as well as for all coal mining sector development in Poland are very complicated in terms of legislation, environment, economy and image. The authors propose a set of strategic changes in the formal conditions for acquiring mining licenses. The article gives a signal to institutions responsible for national security that without proposed changes implementation in the legal and formal process it, will probably not be possible to build next brown coal, hard coal, zinc and lead ore or other minerals new mines. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/108648/PDF/09-Kasztelewicz-i-inni.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/108648 PY - 2018 IS - No 4 EP - 155–178 DO - 10.24425/124506 KW - mining KW - brown coal KW - hard coal KW - coal-based power engineering KW - mining-energetic doctrine KW - formal-legal condition KW - energy security A1 - Kasztelewicz, Zbigniew A1 - Tajduś, Antoni A1 - Cała, Marek A1 - Ptak, Miranda A1 - Sikora, Mateusz PB - Instytut Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi i Energią PAN VL - vol. 21 DA - 2018.12.20 T1 - Strategic conditions for the future of brown coal mining in Poland SP - 155–178 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/108648 T2 - Polityka Energetyczna - Energy Policy Journal ER -