Sustainable social-economic development at a regional and
local level needs exploitation of mineral resources (Gałaś and
Gałaś, 2014). In case of the mining industry, the purpose of the EIA
is to ensure that the environmental damage caused by the planned
exploitation can be limited to the necessary level. The EIA procedure
which is an environmental change management tool gives
the Visegrad Group countries a chance to use their mineral resources
while preserving other values of the environment and
additionally it takes into consideration protection and rational
usage of the resources as non-renewable ones