Negatywne aspekty wykorzystywania sektorowej pomocy publicznej w restrukturyzacji górnictwa węgla kamiennego

Abstract

State aid is a very important instrument of managing change in sensitive sectors. Enterprises in these sectors very often have a difficult financial situ- ation and only with using state aid can these firms realize restructuring. The coal mining sector has an especially hard situation. Hard coal mining has always been an important branch of the Polish economy, but the changes in this sector take long time and generally have a backward and fragmentary character. The paper describes the rules of using the state aid in the coal mining sec- tor. The main goal of the article is to show how state aid can be the source of detrimental effects in the restructuring processes of the coal mining sector. These effects can be internal and external. The author of the paper tried to give an answer when state aid in mines can bring positive results.