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Guidance on Aspects to be considered in Aggregates Plans

The minerals planning policy is part of the national minerals policy framework (Tiess 2011 ; EC 2010b). A national aggregate policy can be defined as the entirety of operations of a state for influencing supply of and demand for mineral resources on its territory (Tiess 2011). It involves protection of aggregates deposits through land use planning (i.e., securing raw materials). In the context of this framework, at the national level an aggregates planning policy must be developed considering strategic issues which are then interrelated to the regional/local (operative) planning level. A National Minerals Policy first has to provide a “Mineral Statement”. Regarding aggregates two crucial issues have to be included: 1) A National Minerals Policy first has to create the awareness of society’s needs for minerals, and specifically for aggregates, and in the case of aggregates of the need for access to local resources. 2) The second really crucial issue is that it sets the supply of minerals, and specifically of aggregates, as a resource for the benefit of society, and that it sets a balanced approach in the assessment of exploration and development of extractive activities.

aggregate, policy, sustainable, supply

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