European Wind, heat pumps, hydrogen
How the tracked legislation reaches the sector — 109 measures name it directly, and 32 more reach it through supply chains, procurement or other acts.
Direction
97 burden · 44 benefit
Status
113 adopted · 28 proposed
Channel
109 direct · 32 reached
reached via supply chain 9 · procurement 1 · regulatory dependency 22
The platform holds 141 measures for European wind, heat pumps, hydrogen: 97 imposing a burden, 44 conferring a benefit. Of these, 113 from law in force, 28 from proposals; 109 arrive directly, 32 through a channel.
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Measures that address wind, heat pumps, hydrogen directly
FND-03Grants and other support (e.g. blended finance) from the Innovation Fund, financed by auctioning 200 million allowances from reduced free allocation, are available via open competitive calls for projects scaling up low-/zero-carbon and carbon-negative products, processes and technologies across all Member States.Businesses/projects in sectors listed in Annex I and III, including CCU, CCS, DACCS, maritime/aviation decarbonisation and clean-technology manufacturing · BusinessesOpportunityPRM-06Automatic 'strategic project' status for all net-zero technology manufacturing projects, granting streamlined treatment under the future Environmental Assessment Regulation.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects · BusinessesEntitlementLM-12Apply minimum mandatory environmental sustainability requirements set out in an implementing act when procuring listed net-zero technologies.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementLM-13Not supply more than 50% of the value of the contracted net-zero technology product from any single individual third country for the duration of the contract.Winning tenderers supplying net-zero technology under public contracts · BusinessesRequirementLM-14Exclude tenders from economic operators owned/controlled by entities in third countries without a guaranteeing international agreement, for net-zero technology procurement covered by the new Annex II.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementLM-15aApply the Union-origin requirements laid down in the new Annex II when procuring listed net-zero technologies (battery storage, solar PV, heat pumps, wind, nuclear).Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementLM-16Require suppliers of in-scope net-zero technology products to submit a self-declaration or equivalent document demonstrating compliance with the origin requirements.Suppliers of net-zero technologies under EU public contracts · BusinessesRequirementLM-18aGive each net-zero technology pre-qualification/award criterion a minimum weight of 5% and a combined weight of 15-30% of the auction's award criteria.Member States designing net-zero technology auctions · GovernmentsRequirementLM-18bGuaranteed application of origin/resilience award criteria to at least 40% of the volume auctioned per year per Member State (or 8 GW/year), and to 100% of volume for the high-risk-supplier and origin sub-criteria, creating a protected share of auctioned capacity for compliant bidders.EU-based bidders in net-zero technology auctions meeting origin/resilience criteria · BusinessesOpportunityLM-19Design auctions involving control systems, SCADA, remote access systems or firewalls so that suppliers identified as 'high-risk' under the future Cyber Security Act instrument are excluded from supply, design, management or software-update processes.Member States designing net-zero technology auctions · GovernmentsRequirementLM-20aEnsure support schemes for net-zero technologies include the Union-origin requirements laid down in the new Annex II.Member States, regional/local authorities and bodies governed by public law · GovernmentsRequirementIAAB-NZT-06bCreated demand for EU-origin electrolysers: renewable-hydrogen auctions must require that the electrolyser, its stacks and one further main specific component originate in the Union.EU manufacturers of electrolysers, stacks and main specific components · BusinessesOpportunityLM-21aCap any additional financial compensation granted under a net-zero technology support scheme at 15% of the final product's cost for the consumer (transport/installation included), or 20% for energy-poverty schemes.Member States / bodies operating net-zero technology support schemes · GovernmentsRequirementLM-22Design net-zero technology support schemes involving control systems/SCADA/remote access/firewalls so that beneficiaries are eligible only where high-risk suppliers (per the future Cyber Security Act instrument) are excluded from key processes.Member States designing net-zero technology support schemes · GovernmentsRequirementLM-23aEnsure Union-origin requirements from the new Annex II are met when supporting the construction or manufacturing of net-zero technology final products.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementLM-23bCreated demand for EU-origin hydrogen electrolysers: Member State manufacturing-capacity support schemes for electrolysers must require the electrolyser (and, from year 3, a second additional main component) to originate in the Union.EU manufacturers of hydrogen electrolysers and their main components · BusinessesOpportunityFDI-11Empowered to adopt delegated acts extending the list of emerging strategic sectors subject to FDI screening to further economic-security-critical sectors (e.g. additional net-zero technologies, nuclear fuel cycle, electric propulsion), excluding digital/AI/quantum/semiconductors.European CommissionRequirementGOV-04Carry out a comprehensive assessment of the application of the net-zero technology auction criteria and their effect on the accelerated deployment of renewable energy technologies.European CommissionRequirementBEN-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 · GovernmentsSimplificationAUC-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 · 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-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 · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-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 · GovernmentsRequirementCRSK-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 · BusinessesEntitlementCMAG-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-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-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) · BusinessesEntitlementCRMAB-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
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AA-01Designate at least one industrial manufacturing acceleration area to cluster industrial manufacturing projects in one or more strategic sectors listed in Annex I.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAA-02Notify the Commission of the designation of an industrial manufacturing acceleration area.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAA-03Conduct, and review, a comprehensive analysis of the energy needs of each acceleration area and the required energy infrastructure capacity.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAA-04aPrepare and issue an aggregated baseline permit authorising industrial activities within each designated acceleration area, covering permits required for projects located there.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAA-04bProject promoters within an acceleration area only need to obtain additional permits that fall outside the scope of the aggregated baseline permit, cutting the permitting burden.Industrial manufacturing project promoters located in acceleration areas · BusinessesEntitlementIAAB-AA-06Automatic 'strategic project' status for every industrial manufacturing project sited in an acceleration area, granting priority and accelerated treatment under the future Environmental Assessment Regulation.Promoters of industrial manufacturing projects located within an acceleration area · BusinessesEntitlementLM-21bHouseholds (including those in energy poverty) purchasing eligible net-zero technologies (e.g. battery storage, solar PV, heat pumps) under a support scheme can receive additional financial compensation of up to 15% of the product's cost -- up to 20% for households in energy poverty -- provided the product meets the Union-origin requirements.Households receiving support for net-zero technology purchases, including those in energy poverty · HouseholdsOpportunityGOV-01Carry out a periodic evaluation of the Regulation and its contribution to the internal market's functioning, covering resilience, economic security, decarbonisation and the industrialisation objective.European CommissionRequirementGOV-03Lay down effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalty rules for infringements of the Regulation and notify the Commission of those rules without delay.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementGOV-05Submit to the Commission a report setting out data on the application of net-zero technology exemptions and related requirements.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCBEN-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 · BusinessesRequirementCOFF-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 · 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 · BusinessesEntitlementCPEN-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-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-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-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
Where the pressure comes from
Pressure arrives from 4 acts directly
Pressure arrives at European wind, heat pumps, hydrogen from 4 acts that name it directly.
EU ETS revision — names the sector in 1 measure
Industrial Accelerator Act — names the sector in 17 measures, reaches it in 10 more via another act
Net-Zero Industry Act — names the sector in 73 measures
Critical Raw Materials Act — names the sector in 18 measures, reaches it in 22 more via another act and procurement and supply chain
Net position
What the corpus does to this sector, in total
141measures reach this sector · 97 press, 44 relieve or grant
In force Proposed or mixed basis
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