Critical Raw Materials Act
Regulation (EU) 2024/1252, consolidated 03.05.2024
Direction
66 burden · 24 benefit
Status
90 adopted
Channel
90 direct · 0 reached
The platform holds 90 measures for Critical Raw Materials Act: 66 imposing a burden, 24 conferring a benefit. Of these, 90 from law in force; 90 arrive directly, 0 through a channel.
Reach
Names 7 sectors, reaches 7
Critical Raw Materials Act names 7 sectors and reaches 7.
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71 measures
Waste and landfill
CBEN-01Build Union capacity towards extracting 10%, processing 40% and recycling 25% of the Union's annual consumption of each strategic raw material by 2030.The Commission and Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCBEN-02Diversify imports so that no single third country supplies more than 65% of the Union's annual consumption of any strategic raw material by 2030.The Commission and Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCSP-01A raw materials project meeting all five criteria -- supply-security contribution, technical feasibility, sustainable implementation, cross-border benefit, and mutual benefit for third countries -- is recognised by the Commission as a Strategic Project, which carries the priority permitting track, the financing subgroup and the offtake system.Promoters of critical raw material projects in the Union, third countries and OCTs · BusinessesEntitlementCSP-02File a Strategic Project application carrying ten items: evidence against the criteria, a UN Framework Classification, a permitting timetable, a public-acceptance plan, ownership and control information, a business plan, a jobs and skills estimate, a post-exploitation environmental restoration plan, an alternative-locations assessment in protected areas, and an indigenous-peoples consultation plan.Promoters applying for Strategic Project recognition · BusinessesRequirementCSP-03Decide on Strategic Project recognition within 90 days of acknowledging a complete application, give reasons, and notify the applicant, the Board and the territory concerned.The Commission · European CommissionRequirementCSP-04Strategic Project status, and every right attached to it, is lost where the project stops meeting the Art. 6(1) criteria or was recognised on materially incorrect information.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesEntitlement withdrawnCSP-05A project that falls out of the criteria only because the list of strategic raw materials moved keeps its status, and everything attached to it, for three years.Promoters of Strategic Projects affected by an update of Annex I · BusinessesEntitlementCSP-06Report to the Commission every two years on implementation progress and permitting, on any slippage against the timetable and how it will be recovered, and on progress in financing including public support received.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesRequirementCSP-07Supply additional information on the project when the Commission asks for it to check that the recognition criteria are still met.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesRequirementCSP-08Notify the Commission of changes to the project that affect the recognition criteria, and of any lasting change of control over the undertakings involved.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesRequirementCSP-09Run a free-access project website, in a language the local population understands and requiring no personal data to read, carrying at least the environmental, social and economic impacts and benefits of the project, and keep it updated.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesRequirementCSPC-01Establish or designate single points of contact, with at most one per administrative level and stage of the critical raw materials value chain, and list them on an accessible website.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCPRM-01Strategic Projects in the Union count as being of public interest or serving public health and safety, and may be treated as of overriding public interest, in the derogations of the Habitats, Water and Birds Directives and of ecosystem-restoration law.Promoters of Strategic Projects in the Union · BusinessesEntitlementCPRM-02A Strategic Project is given the highest national significance status the Member State's own law provides, and is treated accordingly throughout permitting.Promoters of Strategic Projects in the Union · BusinessesEntitlementCPRM-03Litigation, appeals and remedies over a Strategic Project's permits are treated as urgent wherever national law has an urgency procedure -- with the promoter required to take part in it.Promoters of Strategic Projects in the Union · BusinessesEntitlementCPRM-04Complete the permit-granting process for a Strategic Project within 27 months where it involves extraction, or 15 months where it involves only processing or recycling.Member State permit-granting authorities and single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementCPRM-05Where the project was already in permitting before recognition, or is an extension of a permitted Strategic Project, finish within 24 months for extraction or 12 months for processing or recycling, counted from recognition.Member State permit-granting authorities and single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementCPRM-06Acknowledge completeness of a Strategic Project permit application within 45 days or state exactly what is missing, and on a second pass ask only for evidence completing what was already identified.Single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementCPRM-07Publish the permit-granting schedule drawn up by the single point of contact on the project's own free-access website.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesRequirementCENV-01Request a scoping opinion on the environmental impact assessment report within 30 days of being notified of Strategic Project recognition, and before filing the permit application.Promoters of Strategic Projects requiring an environmental impact assessment · BusinessesRequirementCENV-02Where two or more environmental assessment duties arise at once for a Strategic Project, run a coordinated or joint procedure satisfying all of them.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCENV-03Issue the reasoned conclusion on a Strategic Project's environmental impact assessment within 90 days of receiving all necessary information and completing consultations.Member State competent authorities · GovernmentsRequirementCFIN-01A Strategic Project promoter may call in the Board's financing subgroup to work through how to close the project's financing, across private sources, the EIB Group and other IFIs, national instruments and export credit agencies, and Union programmes including Global Gateway.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesEntitlementCOFF-01A Commission-run matching system where offtakers bid volumes, qualities, prices and durations and Strategic Project promoters post offers, with the Commission introducing the two sides -- demand-side access a project developer did not previously have.Promoters of Strategic Projects and offtakers of strategic raw materials · BusinessesOpportunityCMON-01Identify the key market operators in the critical raw materials value chain on the territory, monitor them through public data and proportionate surveys, report the results, and notify the Commission without delay of major events disrupting them.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCMON-02Answer a Member State's monitoring survey with the data already held, and give reasons for any refusal or claim that the data is unavailable.Key market operators along the critical raw materials value chain · BusinessesRequirementCMON-03A key market operator may refuse a monitoring data request where answering it would disclose trade or business secrets, and is never obliged to generate data it does not already hold.Key market operators along the critical raw materials value chain · BusinessesEntitlementCSTK-01Report the state of national strategic stocks -- levels in tonnes and as a share of annual consumption, chemical form and purity, five-year evolution, and the rules for release and distribution -- or give a justified notice for withholding it on defence or national security grounds.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCJP-02Stay out of demand aggregation and joint purchasing, as participant, supplier or service provider, where sanctioned under Art. 215 TFEU or owned, controlled by or acting for a sanctioned person.Entities targeted by Union restrictive measures, and entities they own, control or direct · BusinessesRequirementCCIR-01Adopt and run national circularity programmes: incentivise resource efficiency, promote re-use and repair, raise collection and processing of critical-raw-material-bearing waste including metal scrap, use recycled content in procurement award criteria or financial incentives, mature recycling technologies, build workforce skills, modulate extended producer responsibility fees, police waste exports, and support Union recycling quality standards.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCCIR-02Identify and report separately the quantities of critical-raw-material-bearing components removed from waste electrical and electronic equipment, and the quantities of critical raw materials recovered from it.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCEXW-01Produce and file a preliminary economic assessment study of the potential to recover critical raw materials from the extractive waste stored in the facility and from waste being generated, estimating quantities and concentrations and assessing technical and economic recoverability.Operators of extractive waste facilities under Directive 2006/21/EC · BusinessesRequirementCEXW-02Produce the preliminary economic assessment study on recovering critical raw materials from extractive waste.Operators of extractive waste facilities holding no technically recoverable critical raw materials · BusinessesSimplificationCEXW-03Build a public database of closed and abandoned extractive waste facilities carrying location, extent and waste volume, the operator or successor, and the quantities and concentrations of raw materials held -- backed by permit-file review, geochemical sampling and detailed characterisation.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCFP-01Publish an environmental footprint declaration for each critical raw material type placed on the market once calculation rules exist for it, naming the responsible person, the material type, the countries and regions of extraction, processing, refining and recycling, the calculated footprint, its performance class, and a link to the supporting study.Anyone placing critical raw materials, including processed and recycled, on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCFP-02Give customers access to the environmental footprint declaration before they are bound by a sales contract, and display nothing likely to mislead or confuse them about what it says.Anyone placing critical raw materials on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCREC-01A certification scheme owner may have its scheme recognised by the Commission against the Annex IV criteria, with the recognised coverage published in a public register -- and recognition feeds the Art. 6(1)(c) sustainability assessment for Strategic Projects.Governments, industry associations and groupings owning critical raw materials sustainability certification schemes · BusinessesEntitlementCREC-02Tell the Commission without delay of any change or update to a recognised scheme bearing on the Annex IV criteria.Owners of recognised certification schemes · BusinessesRequirementCPEN-01Lay down effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties for infringements of the Regulation, put them into effect, and notify them and any amendment to the Commission without delay.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-BEN-03Work to moderate the expected increase in Union consumption of critical raw materials below the Art. 44(1) reference projection, through technological progress and resource efficiency.The Commission and Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-SP-10Continue to meet every requirement under Union, national and international law; Strategic Project recognition changes none of them.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesRequirementCRMAB-SP-11Run an open call with at least four cut-off dates a year and tell applicants within 30 days of the cut-off whether the application is complete.The Commission · European CommissionRequirementCRMAB-SP-12Accept that a single objection by the host Member State ends the application; the Member State must substantiate it before the Board.Promoters of proposed Strategic Projects, and the host Member State · BusinessesRequirementCRMAB-SP-13Hold the 90-day decision deadline where the application's nature, complexity or size, or the number received, requires longer.Promoters awaiting a recognition decision · BusinessesSimplificationCRMAB-SP-14Before recognition is withdrawn the promoter gets the Commission's reasons, an opportunity to reply, and a reply the Commission must take into account.Promoters facing withdrawal of Strategic Project recognition · BusinessesEntitlementCRMAB-SPC-02Facilitate and coordinate the permit-granting process, provide the Art. 18 information, act as the sole point of contact, and help the promoter understand any administrative matter in the process.Single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-SPC-03A promoter can reach the named administrative unit handling its file, and that unit keeps its responsibilities until the promoter has been notified of any change.Promoters of critical raw material projects · BusinessesEntitlementCRMAB-SPC-04Accept all permit-granting documents in electronic form.Member States and their permit-granting authorities · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-SPC-05Re-run valid studies or re-obtain permits already issued for the same project.Promoters of critical raw material projects · BusinessesSimplificationCRMAB-SPC-06Give applicants easy access to dispute-settlement information and procedures, including alternative dispute resolution where applicable.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-PRM-08Carry the permit-granting process out in the most rapid way Union and national law allow -- a duty on the promoter as much as on the authorities.Promoters of Strategic Projects and all authorities concerned · BusinessesRequirementCRMAB-PRM-09Hold the permitting time limits where the project's nature, complexity, location or size requires longer -- six months more for extraction, three for processing or recycling.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesSimplificationCRMAB-PRM-10Decide within 30 days of the developer submitting the required information whether the Strategic Project needs a full environmental impact assessment.Member State competent authorities · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-ENV-04Request the scoping opinion within 30 days of recognition.Promoters whose project was already in permitting before recognition · BusinessesSimplificationCRMAB-PLAN-01Consider making room for critical raw materials projects in zoning, spatial and land use plans, with priority to built, industrial, brownfield and mined land.National, regional and local planning authorities · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-PLAN-02Combine the strategic environmental and habitats assessments for plans making room for critical raw materials projects, covering water bodies and the marine environment.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-INF-03Publish every permitting decision in an easily understandable form, with all decisions on one project on one website.Member States and their authorities · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-SP-15Take measures to facilitate timely implementation of a Strategic Project, including help with administrative and reporting compliance and with community involvement.Member States hosting a Strategic Project · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-INF-01Publish online and centrally the points of contact, the permit-granting and related processes, financing and investment services, funding possibilities, and business support services.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-INF-02Publish centralised online information on how Strategic Project recognition works and what it is worth.The Commission · European CommissionRequirementCRMAB-EXP-01Draw up and review a national exploration programme covering mineral mapping, geochemical campaigns, geoscientific surveys and reprocessing of existing survey data.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-EXP-02Publish free-access maps of mineral occurrences with UN Framework classification where applicable, and release processed geophysical and geochemical data and large-scale mapping on request.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-MON-04Publish and keep updated a free-access monitoring dashboard carrying the parameter trends, the supply-risk calculation, and where appropriate mitigation suggestions.The Commission · European CommissionRequirementCRMAB-MON-05Report new and existing critical raw material projects on the territory, classified under the UN Framework Classification for Resources.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-MON-06Pass the collated monitoring data to national statistical authorities and Eurostat, and designate the authority responsible for doing so.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-STK-02Give particular weight, when opining on national stocks, to keeping private operators' incentives to hold their own strategic stocks and manage their own supply-risk exposure.The Commission and the Board · European CommissionRequirementCRMAB-JP-03Set up and operate an open, transparent demand-aggregation system covering unprocessed and processed strategic raw materials, after assessing the competition impact and setting minimum participation volumes with SMEs in mind.The Commission · European CommissionRequirementCRMAB-CIR-03National circularity programmes may pay for circularity directly -- discounts, monetary rewards or deposit-refund systems for re-use, and for the collection and treatment of waste from products with recovery potential.Holders and collectors of products and waste with critical raw materials recovery potential · BusinessesOpportunityCRMAB-EXW-04Put quantities and concentrations, an assessment of technical and economic recoverability, and the estimation methods used into the study.Operators of extractive waste facilities · BusinessesRequirementCRMAB-EXW-05Cooperate with the Member State's sampling and characterisation of closed extractive waste facilities where national property, mineral or environmental law prevents the authority acting alone.Operators and owners of closed extractive waste facilities · BusinessesRequirementCRMAB-REP-01Supply information beyond what the reporting provisions listed in Art. 45(1) already require.Economic operators along the critical raw materials value chain · BusinessesSimplification
12 measures
Automotive
CMAG-01Label MRI devices, wind generators, industrial robots, motor vehicles, light means of transport, cooling generators, heat pumps, electric motors, washing machines, driers, microwaves, vacuum cleaners and dishwashers with a conspicuous, legible and indelible statement of whether they contain permanent magnets and of which of the four magnet types.Anyone placing the listed products on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCMAG-02Put a data carrier on or in every listed product containing a permanent magnet, linked to a unique product identifier giving the responsible person's identity, the weight, location and chemical composition of each magnet including coatings, glues and additives, and the steps, tools and technologies for accessing and safely removing them.Anyone placing listed products containing permanent magnets on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCMAG-03Keep the magnet information complete, current and accurate, and available for the product's typical lifetime plus ten years -- surviving insolvency, liquidation or exit from the Union -- and accessible to repairers, recyclers, market surveillance and customs.Anyone placing listed products containing permanent magnets on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCMAG-04Carry the permanent-magnet label, data carrier and magnet information.Makers of defence and space products, special purpose vehicles, multi-stage type-approved vehicle parts and small-series vehicles · BusinessesSimplificationCMAG-05Publish, on a free-access website, the share of neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, terbium, boron, samarium, nickel and cobalt recovered from post-consumer waste in the product's permanent magnets, once the total magnet weight passes 0.2 kg.Anyone placing listed products with more than 0.2 kg of rare-earth or samarium-cobalt magnets on the market · BusinessesRequirementCMAG-06Meet minimum recycled shares of neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, terbium, boron, samarium, nickel and cobalt in the permanent magnets of listed products.Anyone placing listed products with permanent magnets on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCMAG-07Give customers access to the recycled-content information before they are bound by a sales contract, including in distance selling, and display no label, mark, symbol or inscription likely to mislead or confuse them about it.Anyone placing listed products with permanent magnets on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCCNF-01Run the applicable conformity assessment, draw up the technical documentation and the EU declaration of conformity, and affix the CE marking, before placing a magnet-labelling or recycled-content product on the market.Persons responsible for placing products covered by Arts. 28 or 29 on the market · BusinessesRequirementCFM-01Do not prohibit, restrict or impede the marketing or putting into service of compliant products containing permanent magnets, or of compliant critical raw materials, on magnet-information, recycled-content or environmental-footprint grounds.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-MAG-08Give magnet information at electric-motor level where the magnets sit only in motors, and put the information in the product passport where another Union act requires one.Anyone placing listed products containing permanent magnets on the market · BusinessesSimplificationCRMAB-FM-02Non-compliant products and materials may still be shown at trade fairs and demonstrations, provided a visible sign says they are non-compliant and cannot be marketed until they are.Exhibitors of products incorporating permanent magnets and of critical raw materials · BusinessesEntitlementCRMAB-CNF-02Have an economic operator established in the Union responsible for the product under Art. 4 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 before placing it on the market.Manufacturers, importers and authorised representatives of products covered by this Regulation · BusinessesRequirement
7 measures
Batteries and solar
CRSK-01Identify the large companies on the territory that use strategic raw materials to make batteries, hydrogen equipment, renewable generation equipment, aircraft, traction motors, heat pumps, data and mobile equipment, additive manufacturing and robotics equipment, drones, rocket launchers, satellites or advanced chips.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRSK-02Carry out, at least every three years, a supply-chain risk assessment mapping where the strategic raw materials used are extracted, processed or recycled, analysing what could affect their supply, and assessing the company's vulnerability to disruption.Large companies making batteries, hydrogen, renewable, aerospace, traction, heat pump, electronics, robotics or chip equipment with strategic raw materials · BusinessesRequirementCRSK-03Obtain supply-chain information from suppliers in order to carry out the risk assessment.Large companies subject to the Art. 24(2) risk assessment · BusinessesSimplificationCRSK-04Where the risk assessment finds significant vulnerabilities, take mitigating action, including assessing whether supply chains can be diversified or the strategic raw materials substituted.Large companies subject to the Art. 24(2) risk assessment · BusinessesRequirementCRSK-05Present the risk-assessment report, and the information requests made to suppliers, to the board of directors.Large companies in Member States that exercise the Art. 24(6) option · BusinessesRequirementCJP-01Undertakings in the Commission's demand-aggregation system may jointly negotiate purchases -- prices and other terms included -- to win better conditions from suppliers or head off shortages, on a transparent basis and within competition law.Union undertakings consuming strategic raw materials · BusinessesEntitlementCRMAB-RSK-06A large company may take the risk assessment to its own board, with the sources, the risks found and the mitigation planned -- and does not have to unless its Member State requires it.Large companies identified under Art. 24(1) · BusinessesEntitlement
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