lues for the qualification process of the mining projects for the
EIA procedure in each of the Visegrad Group countries. In case of
the mandatory list, the threshold values are more stringent in the
V4 countries than they are determined by the current European
Union EIA Directive. Each of the V4 countries has put completely
different threshold values and criteria on the potential list (Gałaś
et al., 2015). It may influence the number of EIA procedures carried
out in the analysed countries.