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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2025/2656(RSP))

On the Clean Industrial Deal

B-10-2025-0278

on behalf of the PfE Group · Rapporteur: Paolo Borchia, Isabella Tovaglieri, Julie Rechagneux, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Ondřej Knotek, Filip Turek, Auke Zijlstra, Barbara Bonte, Jana Nagyová, Aleksandar Nikolic, Silvia Sardone, Raffaele Stancanelli

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This resolution responds to the Commission's Clean Industrial Deal, expressing concern about its potential ineffectiveness and calling for a change of pace, including suspending Green Deal policies and revising or repealing related legislation. It urges the Commission to engage in sectoral dialogue, ensure technology neutrality, diversify the energy mix, strengthen electricity grids, support low-carbon hydrogen, and revise public procurement, state aid, automotive CO2 standards, raw materials, semiconductors, simplification, CBAM, and foreign investment screening. It also calls for measures to support SMEs, address skills gaps and brain drain, and preserve industrial activity and employment.

Key points

  1. Calls for a decisive change of pace from the previous legislative term, including thorough revision and repeal of Green Deal legislation.
  2. Calls for suspension of economically harmful Green Deal policies and urges the Commission not to propose a 90% net greenhouse gas reduction target for 2040.
  3. Expresses concern about Commission's legislative drafting and impact assessments, stressing the need for effective stakeholder consultation.
  4. Urges structured sectoral dialogue with industry, academia, social partners, and regional clusters; affirms commitment to technology neutrality and stable industrial policies.
  5. Calls for action to reduce energy price volatility and decouple electricity prices from fossil fuel prices, while warning against initiatives that circumvent Member State competence over energy mix.
  6. Stresses the need for a diversified energy mix including natural gas, and deplores the proposal to eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies.
  7. Calls on Member States to modernise and expand electricity grids with technological neutrality, and to strengthen risk assessments for systemic electricity shocks.
  8. Calls for a simple, technology-neutral definition of low-carbon hydrogen and recognises the role of carbon management for hard-to-abate sectors.
  9. Supports European preference in public procurement, but is sceptical about the industrial decarbonisation accelerator act and new sustainability criteria.
  10. Calls for an EU State aid framework supporting industrial transformation, opposes new own resources and EU-level taxes.
  11. Urges revision of Regulation (EU) 2019/631 to lift the ban on combustion engines and remove sanctions, considering biofuels.
  12. Calls for scaling up domestic mining, refining, and recycling of critical raw materials, and for a revised Chips Act strategy with clearer objectives and SME integration.

Who is affected

  • EU industry, particularly energy-intensive sectors, automotive, and SMEs.
  • Member States, which are called on to act on grids, energy mix, and investment screening.
  • The Commission, which is urged to revise legislation and engage in dialogue.

Figures and deadlines

  • 90 % reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 (target not to be proposed).
  • Over 50 million people without electricity for several hours during the Iberian blackout on 28 April 2025.
  • Approximately 70 % of Spain's electricity mix from renewables at the time of the blackout.
  • 20 % global semiconductor market share target by 2030 (not achieved).
  • 99 % of all European businesses are SMEs.