The hard coal industry in Poland - 1990 to 2020

Abstract

The article analyses the changes that have been taking place in the hard coal mining sector since 1990, i.e. since the departure from the economy in the central planning system and the transition to market economy. In the article the following periods are specified: the economic transformation and the high dynamics of changes in the mining sector that took place during this period (1990-2002), the process in the mining industry was closed by the mining reform carried out in 2003, the period of stabilisation that took place in the mining industry after the 2003 reform and the image of the mining industry after 2015.