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NIK evaluated how the Minister of Environment performed the tasks related to granting concessions for searching and identification of copper and carbohydrates deposits, including shale gas. Copper is commonly used in all economy branches (e.g. infrastructure, transport, construction, machinery, medicine). While searching and obtaining crude oil and natural gas, including gas from unconventional deposits, is of key importance to ensuring the state’s energy safety. The audit was conducted at the Ministry of Environment and it covered the years 2008–2016 with regard to concessions for copper and carbohydrates (oil and natural gas) from conventional deposits, and the years 2013–2016 – with regard to concessions for search and identification of shale gas.