On energy-intensive industries
B-10-2025-0209
on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy · Rapporteur: Giorgio Gori, Wouter Beke, Brigitte van den Berg, Benedetta Scuderi
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This resolution addresses the challenges facing energy-intensive industries (EIIs) in the EU, calling for measures to reduce energy costs, accelerate permitting, enhance grid integration, and support decarbonisation while maintaining competitiveness.¶¶¶ It urges the Commission and Member States to implement policies on electricity market design, gas supply, funding, raw materials, trade defence, CBAM, and lead markets, and stresses the need for a just transition.¶¶¶
Key points
- Calls on Member States to speed up permitting for clean energy projects and grid connections, and on the Commission to develop solutions beyond overriding public interest.¶
- Urges implementation of electricity market design rules to promote PPAs and CfDs, and asks the Commission to address barriers to long-term agreements, including for SMEs.¶
- Calls for scaling up best practices like Italy's energy release and for recommendations to reduce energy cost exposure, including tax reductions and harmonised network charges.¶
- Asks for enhanced energy system integration, investment in flexibility and storage, and recalls the importance of energy efficiency.¶
- Underlines the need to phase out natural gas, but for sectors that cannot electrify soon, calls for measures to address gas price spikes and tools for gas supply at mitigated cost.¶
- Calls on the Commission to support EIIs in adopting clean technologies, strengthen funding, and ensure effective use of ETS revenue, with State aid complementing EU support.¶
- Calls for topping up InvestEU, using leftover RRF loans, and increasing MFF funding for EII decarbonisation, scaling up the European Hydrogen Bank and carbon contracts for difference.¶
- Stresses the need to simplify bureaucracy to attract private investment, with InvestEU and EIB playing key roles.¶
- Emphasises securing access to critical raw materials, improving resource efficiency, defining strategic secondary raw materials, and enforcing the Waste Shipment Regulation.¶
- Calls for full use of trade defence instruments, a permanent solution to unfair competition before steel safeguard expiry in 2026, and engagement with the US on tariffs.¶
- Stresses effective CBAM implementation, addressing resource shuffling and circumvention, and asks for solutions for EU exporters and possible extension to more sectors.¶
- Calls for lead markets for clean products via non-price procurement criteria, labelling, and minimum EU content, and highlights a just transition with upskilling and regional support.¶¶
Who is affected
- Energy-intensive industries such as chemicals, steel, paper, plastics, mining, refineries, cement, lime, non-ferrous metals, glass, ceramics and fertilisers.¶
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the energy-intensive sector, which face barriers to long-term agreements and funding.¶¶
- Workers and communities in regions heavily reliant on energy-intensive industries, who need upskilling and reskilling.¶¶
- EU exporters affected by the carbon border adjustment mechanism and trade measures.¶