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UC83 is Poland's transposition of EU Regulation 2024/1252 (Critical Raw Materials Act, CRMA), which entered into force on 23 May 2024. The CRMA requires each member state to designate a single point of contact for strategic project permitting, contribute to the EU's 2030 strategic-stockpile benchmarks (10% domestic extraction, 40% domestic processing, 25% recycling of each strategic raw material), and establish national supply-chain monitoring systems.
The draft UC83 creates five principal instruments:
1. Single Contact Point (SCP) — a dedicated permitting-support office within the Ministry of Climate and Environment that coordinates across the 17+ permit types currently required for mining and processing projects in Poland. 2. Registry of Strategic Projects — a domestic register of projects eligible for the CRMA's accelerated permitting, financing priority, and EU-level "strategic project" designation track. 3. National Programme for Searching Critical Raw Materials — a multi-year search programme for domestic deposits of CRMA-listed strategic materials, building on the geological survey infrastructure established under the 2023 Geological and Mining Law amendment (2023-06-16-poland-geological-mining-law-strategic-deposits). 4. Supply-Chain Risk Monitoring System — enterprise-level reporting obligations on large users of strategic raw materials covering upstream sourcing concentration, stockpile levels, and substitution capacity. 5. State Raw Materials Policy — a Council of Ministers obligation to adopt and periodically update a whole-of-government raw materials policy, elevating supply-chain security from a ministry-level to cabinet-level governance instrument.
Poland is the EU's largest coal producer and a significant copper and silver producer (KGHM is Europe's largest integrated copper and silver producer). Poland also hosts deposits of lithium, rare earth elements, and graphite assessed as potentially strategic under the CRMA's benchmarks. UC83 would give the Ministry of Climate and Environment primary legislative authority over the supply-chain security and permitting dimensions of these assets.
UC83 was first published on the government legislative work plan on 14 April 2025 by Undersecretary of State and Chief Geologist Krzysztof Galos. Version 3.0 was circulated for inter-ministerial consultation on 4 March 2026. The Council of Ministers adoption target of Q4 2025 has slipped; no new adoption date has been officially announced as of the March 2026 update. The act is in DRAFT status — it has not yet been submitted to the Sejm (Parliament).
the EU is monitoring member-state transposition and Poland is behind schedule.
obligations but would gain access to the registry's permitting-acceleration benefits and potential EU co-financing under the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP).
transposition + 2025 Semiconductor Sector Policy) represents Poland's systematic repositioning as a critical-materials and back-end semiconductor hub within the EU supply-chain-resilience architecture.
Q2–Q3 2026 tabling given March 2026 v3.0 consultation).
status in the first designation round (EU Commission published first batch 25 March 2025: 2025-03-25-eu-crma-strategic-projects-first-designation).
has concurrent jurisdiction over industrial policy — the v3.0 consultation suggests the MKiŚ / MEiT boundary is still being negotiated.