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SECOND REPORT (COM(2025)0946 – C100324/2025 – 2025/0385(COD))

On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2024/1252

A-10-2026-0265

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy · Rapporteur: Mohammed Chahim

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Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal to amend Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 on critical raw materials. It strengthens data collection, monitoring and risk preparedness, and sets new rules on labelling and recycled content of permanent magnets. It requires the Commission to identify large companies using strategic raw materials, and those companies to map their supply chains, assess vulnerabilities and take mitigation measures. It establishes a European Critical Raw Materials Centre as a Union body with legal personality, a Governing Board, an Executive Director and a Critical Raw Materials Forum. The Centre would run joint purchasing, stockpiling, an Intelligence Hub, resilience plans and financial support, including a European Critical Raw Materials Fund with an initial Union contribution of EUR 2 000 000 000. It sets European contingency critical raw materials stocks as Union property, open to Union undertakings and, under association agreements, to certain third countries.

Committee position. The committee proposes to amend the Commission proposal by strengthening risk preparedness and monitoring, adding rules on permanent magnet labelling and recycled content, and establishing a European Critical Raw Materials Centre with stockpiling, joint purchasing and financing tasks.

Key points

  1. The Commission must set cut-off dates for Strategic Project calls at least twice per year and may open additional targeted calls.
  2. The Commission, with Member States, must identify large companies operating in the Union that use strategic raw materials, and inform them of their obligations and provide guidance.
  3. Identified large companies must carry out a risk assessment of their strategic raw materials supply chain, including mapping of countries and ownership of facilities, and present results to their board.
  4. Where significant vulnerabilities are found, large companies must take mitigation measures such as reducing use, diversifying supply, prioritising secondary raw materials, substituting or building up stocks.
  5. The Commission may request large companies to explain compliance within 60 days; defence contractors may provide information via their Member State, which may withhold elements jeopardising essential security interests.
  6. Entities may be excluded from participating as suppliers or service providers for a strategic raw material if established in, owned or controlled by a third country holding more than 40% of global manufacturing capacity, with exceptions for free trade, customs union or Strategic Partnership countries.
  7. The Commission may activate temporary support measures, including price stabilisation, contracts for difference, production-linked incentives or demand aggregation, in cases of sudden price increases, supply disruption or artificially low prices.
  8. Products containing permanent magnets must bear a label; exemptions apply below mass thresholds of 3 grams for hard disk drives and loudspeakers, 6 grams for motorised toys, 15 grams for drones and 20 grams for transducers.
  9. By 24 May 2027 or two years from a delegated act, persons placing products with permanent magnets above 0,2 kg on the market must publish the share of listed materials recovered from manufacturing and post-consumer waste.
  10. The Commission must adopt a delegated act by December 2026 on calculation and verification rules, and by 31 December 2031 set separate minimum shares for listed materials recovered from waste.
  11. A European Critical Raw Materials Centre is established as a Union body for an unlimited period, with tasks including joint purchasing, stockpiling, resilience plans, financial support and an Intelligence Hub.
  12. The Centre's seat is to be determined by Parliament and the Council by 1 January 2028, and the Commission must present a legislative proposal on the seat by 31 December 2026.

Who is affected

  • Large companies using strategic raw materials: must map supply chains, assess vulnerabilities and take mitigation measures.
  • Producers of products containing permanent magnets: must label products and publish recycled content shares.
  • Union undertakings: may access European contingency stocks and request joint purchasing or procurement support.
  • Third countries with association agreements: their undertakings may access stocks under conditions including reciprocity and financial contributions.
  • Member States: may maintain national stocks and request the Centre to procure on their behalf.

Figures and deadlines

  • 3 grams: labelling exemption threshold for hard disk drives and loudspeakers.
  • 6 grams: labelling exemption threshold for motorised toys.
  • 15 grams: labelling exemption threshold for drones for civil use.
  • 20 grams: labelling exemption threshold for transducers.
  • 0,2 kg: total weight of permanent magnets above which recycled content must be published.
  • 40%: share of global manufacturing capacity held by a third country that triggers exclusion of entities.
  • 60 days: deadline for large companies to provide information requested by the Commission.
  • EUR 2 000 000 000: initial Union contribution to the European Critical Raw Materials Fund.

Legal basis: Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.