MINING SECTOR DIGITALIZATION IN KOSOVO

Based on data from the last decade, institutions have faced an increasing number of applications for licenses and permits for raw materials, construction, industrial and metallic minerals. Receipt of applications and accompanying documents for licenses and permits is currently performed as a manual process and submitted by enterprises in hard copy format. Institutional officials consistently face with the difficulties in manually processing all data from applications and accompanying documents submitted, causing delays in their review. Many applications from companies have been waiting to be reviewed for another year, leaving the review for the next calendar year. Based on the data, over the years the number of licenses issued has always been smaller than the number of applications received for the calendar year. The purpose of this paper is to display the importance of an advanced system to automate application review processes to harmonize the number of licenses issued with the number of applications received. Facilitating procedures for the automation of actions that can be implemented through a digital system will enable institutions to make their administrative services more efficient. This spatial information system will identify and locate natural resource sites, will automate the execution of all processes from accepting applications, approving or not approving licenses and permits, necessary inspections, reporting on royalties, until the closure of mining activities, comfortable with the rules in harmony with the environment.