Net-Zero Industry Act
Regulation (EU) 2024/1735, consolidated 17.08.2025
Direction
59 burden · 30 benefit
Status
89 adopted
Channel
89 direct · 0 reached
The platform holds 89 measures for Net-Zero Industry Act: 59 imposing a burden, 30 conferring a benefit. Of these, 89 from law in force; 89 arrive directly, 0 through a channel.
Reach
Names 9 sectors, reaches 11
Net-Zero Industry Act names 9 sectors; 2 more are — automotive, construction — reached without being named, through Concessions Directive and Public Procurement Directive and Utilities Procurement Directive and Water Framework Directive.
Aluminium and metalsBatteries and solarCarbon capture and fuelsCement and concreteChemicals and refiningWind, heat pumps, hydrogenGlass and ceramicsPower and heatSteel
Automotive — reached by 2 measures, via another act and procurement
Construction — reached by 9 measures, via another act and procurement and supply chain · through Concessions Directive, Public Procurement Directive, Utilities Procurement Directive, Water Framework Directive
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68 measures
Batteries and solar
BEN-01Support net-zero manufacturing projects so that Union manufacturing capacity reaches at least 40% of the Union's annual deployment needs for net-zero technologies by 2030.The Commission and Member States · GovernmentsRequirementSPC-01Establish or designate one or more single points of contact responsible for facilitating and coordinating the permit-granting process for net-zero technology manufacturing projects.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementSPC-02Project promoters may file every document in the permit-granting process electronically, in any Member State.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects · BusinessesEntitlementSPC-03Re-run studies or re-obtain permits and authorisations already carried out or issued for the same project.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects · BusinessesSimplificationSPC-04Specify and hand to the single point of contact the requirements and the extent of the information that will be demanded of a project promoter, before the permit-granting process starts.Authorities involved in the permit-granting process · GovernmentsRequirementINF-01Publish online, centrally, the single points of contact, the permit-granting process, financing and investment services, funding possibilities and business support services.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementADM-01Provide administrative support to net-zero technology manufacturing projects, including help with compliance, with informing the public, and with the permit-granting process, with particular attention to SMEs.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-01Complete the permit-granting process for a net-zero technology manufacturing project within 12 months below 1 GW of yearly manufacturing capacity, or 18 months at 1 GW or more.Member State permit-granting authorities and single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-02Acknowledge that a permit application is complete, or state exactly what is missing, within 45 days; a second request for information may be made within 30 days and may not open new subjects.Single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-03Draw up a detailed schedule for the permit-granting process within two months of the application and publish it on a free-access website.Single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-05A promoter may obtain, before filing, a binding-in-practice scoping opinion on how detailed the environmental impact assessment report has to be, answered within 45 days.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects · BusinessesEntitlementENV-01Where two or more environmental assessment duties arise at once, run a coordinated or joint procedure that satisfies all of them.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementENV-02Issue the reasoned conclusion on the environmental impact assessment within 90 days of receiving all necessary information and completing consultations.Member State competent authorities · GovernmentsRequirementSP-01A manufacturing project meeting any one of the resilience, supply-chain or sustainability criteria is recognised as a net-zero strategic project, which carries the priority permitting track and the public-interest status of Art. 15.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects in the Union · BusinessesEntitlementSP-02File an application for strategic-project recognition containing evidence against the criteria, a business plan evaluating financial viability, and a draft timetable showing when the project contributes to the Union benchmark.Promoters applying for net-zero strategic project status · BusinessesRequirementSP-03Assess a strategic-project application within one month of completeness, request missing information once only, and give a reasoned decision to the promoter and the Platform.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementSP-04A rejected applicant may take the application to the Commission, which must assess it within 20 working days.Promoters whose strategic-project application was rejected · BusinessesEntitlementSP-05Projects already backed by the ETS Innovation Fund, an IPCEI, a European Hydrogen Valley or the Hydrogen Bank get strategic-project status on a written request, with no formal application.Promoters of Innovation Fund, IPCEI, Hydrogen Valley and Hydrogen Bank backed manufacturing projects · BusinessesEntitlementSP-06Strategic-project status, and every right attached to it, is lost where the project changes substantially, stops meeting the criteria, or was recognised on incorrect information.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesEntitlement withdrawnSP-07Strategic projects count as being in the public interest, and may be treated as of overriding public interest, in the derogations of the Water, Birds and Habitats Directives and of nature-restoration law.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesEntitlementSP-08A recognised strategic project is given the highest national significance status the Member State's own law provides, and is treated accordingly in permitting, environmental assessment and spatial planning.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesEntitlementSP-09Litigation and appeals touching a strategic project are treated as urgent wherever national permitting law has an urgency procedure -- with the promoter required to take part in it.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesEntitlementPRM-06Complete the permit-granting process for a net-zero strategic project within 9 months below 1 GW, 12 months at 1 GW or more, and 18 months for the permits to operate a CO2 storage site.Member State permit-granting authorities and single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementVAL-01Accompany any designation of a net-zero Acceleration Valley with a plan carrying at least four support schemes: infrastructure, private investment, reskilling, and online information.Member States designating net-zero Acceleration Valleys · GovernmentsRequirementVAL-02Siting a manufacturing project in a designated Valley confers the public-interest status -- and the possible overriding public interest -- in the environmental derogations, without the project having to be recognised as strategic.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects sited in a Valley · BusinessesEntitlementFIN-01A strategic-project promoter may call the Platform in to work through how to close the project's financing, across private sources, the EIB Group and other IFIs, national instruments and Union programmes.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesEntitlementPP-01Apply the Commission's minimum mandatory environmental sustainability requirements in every procurement whose subject matter includes solar, wind, battery, heat pump, hydrogen, biogas, CCS, grid, nuclear or sustainable-fuel technology, and in works contracts including it.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementPP-02Attach to net-zero works contracts at least one of: a social or employment contract-performance clause, a cybersecurity compliance requirement, or a hard on-time delivery obligation backed by a charge.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementPP-03aWhere the Commission has found a third country supplies more than 50% of a net-zero technology in the Union, hold supply from each such country below 50% of contract value -- for the technology and for its main components -- prove it on request, and pay at least 10% of the contract value if the cap is breached.Tenderers and successful contractors supplying net-zero technologies to public buyers · BusinessesRequirementPP-03bPublic demand is reserved away from a dominant third-country source: once the Commission finds one country above 50% of Union supply, no more than half the contract value of that technology, or of its main components, may come from that country -- the balance falls to Union and diversified producers.Union and diversified non-dominant producers of net-zero technologies and their main components · BusinessesOpportunityPP-04Apply the minimum environmental sustainability requirements where there is a single possible supplier, where a comparable earlier tender drew no suitable bids, or where compliance would cost disproportionately or break technical compatibility.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsSimplificationSCH-01Design any new or updated scheme that subsidises the purchase of net-zero technology final products so that it favours products with a high sustainability and resilience contribution, either by paying more for them or by making them the eligibility condition.Member States, regional and local authorities and bodies governed by public law running purchase-support schemes · GovernmentsRequirementSCH-02Buyers of net-zero technology final products that score on sustainability and resilience can be paid additional compensation of up to 5% of the product's cost -- up to 15% for households in energy poverty.Households, companies and consumers buying net-zero technology final products under a public support scheme · HouseholdsOpportunitySCH-03Any net-zero technology final product may apply to join a purchase-support scheme at any time, and the authority must assess it through an open, non-discriminatory and transparent process against a published pass mark.Manufacturers of net-zero technology final products · BusinessesEntitlementSCH-04Publish, on one free-access website, all information on purchase-support schemes for each relevant net-zero technology final product.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementSBX-01Establish or designate contact points for net-zero regulatory sandboxes, with one sole contact point responsible for each request.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementSBX-02Any company, organisation or consortium developing innovative net-zero technologies can require a Member State to set up a regulatory sandbox for it, if it meets the eligibility criteria and is selected.Companies, organisations and consortia developing innovative net-zero technologies · BusinessesEntitlementSBX-03Carry full liability under Union and national law for any material harm caused to third parties by testing inside the sandbox.Participants in net-zero regulatory sandboxes · BusinessesRequirementSME-01SMEs and start-ups get priority access to net-zero regulatory sandboxes, plus a dedicated communication channel and administrative support to take part.SMEs and start-ups developing innovative net-zero technologies · BusinessesEntitlementSKL-01Assess whether an Academy's learning programmes are equivalent to the national qualifications required for regulated professions of interest to the net-zero industry, publish the results, and report the reasons to the Platform where equivalence is not found or not sought.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementMON-01Collect and report, at least every three years, data on trade obstacles, market and price developments, manufacturing capacity and employment, SME participation, permit-granting outcomes and durations, sandboxes, and CO2 stored underground.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementSDG-01Carry net-zero technology manufacturing projects in the Single Digital Gateway: a new information area, the permit procedures and their outputs, and the single points of contact as assistance services.Member States and the Commission, through the Single Digital Gateway · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-BEN-02Raise the Union share of world production of net-zero technologies towards 15% by 2040, unless the added capacity would run significantly beyond Union deployment needs.The Commission and Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PRM-07Complete permitting within 18 months where the project's yearly manufacturing capacity is not measured in GW.Member State permit-granting authorities · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PRM-08Where consultation shows the environmental impact assessment report needs supplementing, give the promoter at least 30 days to file the additional information; that period does not count against the permitting clock.Single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PRM-09Hold the permitting time limits for a project whose nature, complexity, location or size requires longer.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing and strategic projects · BusinessesSimplificationNZIAB-PRM-10Hold the permitting time limits for a project raising exceptional risks to the health and safety of workers or the general population.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing and strategic projects · BusinessesSimplificationNZIAB-ENV-03Hold public and authority consultation on the environmental report to between 30 and 85 days, extended to at most 90 in the cases Art. 6(4) of Directive 2011/92/EU covers.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PLAN-01Consider making room for net-zero manufacturing projects, strategic projects and Valleys in zoning, spatial and land use plans -- giving priority to artificial, built, industrial and brownfield surfaces -- and put all relevant spatial planning data online.National, regional and local planning authorities · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PLAN-02Combine the strategic environmental assessment and the habitats assessment where a plan makes room for net-zero projects, covering water bodies and, where relevant, the marine environment, without lengthening the Regulation's time limits.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-INF-02Publish every decision under the permitting section and Arts. 8, 15, 16 and 28 in an easily understandable form, with all decisions on one project on the same website.Member States and their authorities · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-SP-11A project in a less developed or transition region or a Just Transition Fund territory, eligible under cohesion rules, is recognised as strategic on a written request once the award procedure has run -- with no formal application.Promoters of cohesion-funded projects in less developed and transition regions and Just Transition Fund territories · BusinessesEntitlementNZIAB-SP-12Where a Member State will not recognise projects in a technology it does not accept in its energy mix, say so publicly and as soon as possible.Member States refusing recognition for a technology · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-SP-13Where the Member State misses the one-month deadline, the promoter can demand a new one, and it may be no more than 30 days past the original.Promoters awaiting a decision on strategic-project recognition · BusinessesEntitlementNZIAB-SP-14Inform the promoter and hear it before repealing a recognition on grounds of substantial change, loss of the criteria, or incorrect information.Member States and the Commission · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-SP-15Set up and maintain an openly available registry of net-zero strategic projects.The Commission · European CommissionRequirementNZIAB-SP-16Handle every process touching a strategic project in the most rapid way Union and national law allow -- a duty on the promoter as much as on the authorities.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects and all authorities concerned · BusinessesRequirementNZIAB-SP-17Take part in the urgency procedures that apply to disputes over the project.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesRequirementNZIAB-VAL-03Designate a Valley only with a defined geographic and technology scope, priority to built and brownfield land, a strategic environmental assessment and where applicable a habitats assessment, and synergies with renewables acceleration areas.Member States designating Valleys · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-VAL-04Designate a single point of contact for each Valley, with the permitting and strategic-project rules applying to individual projects inside it.Member States designating Valleys · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-VAL-05Give promoters templates naming the specific permits a Valley project needs, carrying the project features and mitigation measures that decide whether an environmental impact assessment is required at all.Single points of contact for Valleys · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PP-05Do not discriminate against, or treat differently without justification, a provider or net-zero products from another Member State.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PP-06Apply the origin cap, the evidence duty and the 10% charge to supply originating with parties to the GPA and the Union's other relevant international agreements.Contracting authorities, and tenderers supplying from GPA signatory sources · GovernmentsSimplificationNZIAB-PP-07Apply the resilience conditions in a re-run procurement addressing the same needs, where applying them drew no suitable tenders the first time.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsSimplificationNZIAB-SBX-04Publicly communicate any significant risk to health, safety or the environment found during sandbox testing and immediately suspend development and testing until it is mitigated.Competent authorities supervising net-zero regulatory sandboxes, and the participants they supervise · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-SBX-05A sandbox can be extended beyond its original duration by agreement with the national competent authority, through the same procedure.Participants in net-zero regulatory sandboxes · BusinessesEntitlementNZIAB-SME-02Take account of SME and start-up needs, give them adequate administrative support to take part in sandboxes, and tell them what financial support is available.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-CNF-01Protect the trade and business secrets and other sensitive, confidential and classified information obtained under the Regulation, including in the recommendations and measures taken on it.Member States and the Commission · GovernmentsRequirement
15 measures
Carbon capture and fuels
CO2-01Publish, on a non-reliance basis, the geological data on decommissioned production sites -- and any economic assessment of the cost of enabling CO2 injection -- covering whether the site can safely and permanently store CO2 and what transport it would need.Current and former holders of hydrocarbon authorisations under Directive 94/22/EC · BusinessesRequirementCO2-02Deliver an individual share of the Union's 50 Mt/year CO2 injection capacity target by 2030, calculated pro-rata on the entity's share of Union crude oil and natural gas production over 2020-2023, as permitted capacity available to the market.Authorised oil and gas producers above the de minimis production threshold · BusinessesRequirementCO2-03Submit a plan to the Commission confirming the targeted volume of new CO2 storage and injection capacity to be commissioned by 2030, and the means and milestones for reaching it.Authorised oil and gas producers subject to an individual contribution · BusinessesRequirementCO2-04Report annually to the Commission on progress towards the individual CO2 injection-capacity contribution; the reports are published.Authorised oil and gas producers subject to an individual contribution · BusinessesRequirementCO2-05A producer may discharge its injection-capacity contribution by investing in or developing storage itself, by contracting with another obligated producer, or by contracting with third-party storage developers or investors.Authorised oil and gas producers subject to an individual contribution · BusinessesEntitlementCO2-06Deliver an individual CO2 injection-capacity contribution for production carried out in a Member State whose permitted, FID-reached storage capacity already exceeds the sum of those contributions.Authorised oil and gas producers active in a Member State that obtains the exemption · BusinessesSimplificationCO2-07Report annually, publicly, on CO2 capture, storage and transport projects in progress, the injection and storage capacity they need, national support measures, capture targets, and cross-border cooperation.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCO2-08Identify the authorised oil and gas producers on the territory and report their 2020-2023 crude oil and natural gas production volumes to the Commission.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCO2-09Lay down effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties for producers that infringe their CO2 injection-capacity obligations.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCO2-10Take the measures needed to open access to CO2 transport networks and storage sites for geological storage, as far as it is economically feasible or where a potential customer is willing to pay.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-SP-10A CO2 storage project sited in the Union that contributes to the Art. 20 injection objective and has applied for a storage permit is recognised as strategic -- and so is any capture project and any transport infrastructure project attached to it.Promoters of CO2 storage, capture and transport projects · BusinessesEntitlementNZIAB-CO2-11Design every CO2 storage site to operate for at least five years, and run it on fair and open access, transparently and without discrimination.Operators of CO2 storage sites counting towards the Union injection objective · BusinessesRequirementNZIAB-CO2-12Publish the data on every area where a CO2 storage site could be permitted, saline aquifers included, to at least the detail the national energy and climate plan guidance asks for.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-CO2-13Where no storage projects are in progress, report instead on the plans to decarbonise industry, including cross-border transport to stores in other Member States and CO2 utilisation projects.Member States with no CO2 storage projects in progress · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-CO2-14Keep any agreements under Art. 23(5)(b)-(c) to injection capacity above the exempted contribution and above the sum of the exempted contributions.Producers exempted under Art. 23(8) · BusinessesRequirement
5 measures
Wind, heat pumps, hydrogen
AUC-01Build responsible business conduct, cyber and data security, and delivery-capability pre-qualification into renewable energy auctions, plus pre-qualification or award criteria for the auction's sustainability and resilience contribution.Member States designing renewable energy auctions · GovernmentsRequirementAUC-02In renewable energy auctions, sustainability and resilience criteria carry at least 5% each and 15-30% combined of the award score, and the regime bites on at least 30% of the volume auctioned per Member State per year -- a priced advantage for producers outside a dominant third-country source.Manufacturers of renewable energy technologies and their main components supplying auction participants · BusinessesOpportunityAUC-03Apply the auction pre-qualification and award criteria where doing so would cost disproportionately -- presumed above a 15% cost difference per auction.Member States designing renewable energy auctions · GovernmentsSimplificationNZIAB-AUC-04Give each sustainability and resilience criterion at least 5% weight, and 15% to 30% combined, when applying them as award criteria.Member States designing renewable energy auctions · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-AUC-05Apply the auction regime to at least 30% of the volume auctioned per year, or alternatively at least 6 GW per year.Member States designing renewable energy auctions · GovernmentsRequirement
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