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Restructuring actions taken against coal mining lead to changes in area of socio-economic life, affecting the state and prospects of development in country and in Silesia voivodeship. Institutions, methods and tools to monitor coal mining restructuring in the context of the socio-economic environment may indeed overtake and limit effects resulting from this process. On the basis of this thesis in this article were presented mission, programmatic objectives and structure of the Silesian Centre for Close Mining Changes Monitoring (- further CMZO).