CONCERNING THE CLASSIFICATION OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN THE SPHERE OF COAL MINING

Abstract

The continued existence of state owned mines is not possible without involvement of private investment. In this regard, the most promising is corporate development of the mine field, which is a form
of cooperation between a private company, which has a license for its own area within
the mine field of a state mine and using its own equipment for production of coal, and
a state enterprise (mine) that provides the firm for a fee with technological services for
lifting, transport, ventilation, dewatering, energy supply, etc. Scientific discussion
concerning the interpretations of this phenomenon, in particular around the nature of
corporate development of the mine field as a form of public-private partnership, and
presence of opposite considerations have revealed the expediency to develop a method
for classifying the models of interaction between coal mining subjects with various forms
of ownership. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to improve classification of the state
private (public-private) partnerships in the extractive industries. To summarize
the various forms of public-private partnership, an approach based on trigrams
containing the features of “ownership – financing – management” has been used in
the work. Two trigrams corresponding to the position of two subjects (private and state)
form a hexagram. The matrix of hexagrams contains all possible variants of models of
public-private partnership.
It is proved that corporate development of the mine field, which is the most relevant
in terms of development of mines in public sector, is not a form of public-private
partnership; however it can be realized as such through the model of industrial park created
under concession agreement between the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine
and private company managing the industrial park.