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DRAFT 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

ITRE-PR-785290

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

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The draft report proposes amendments to the regulation on critical raw materials, focusing on strategic projects, large company obligations, recycling definitions, and investment support.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes amendments to strengthen the Commission's role, clarify waste definitions, enhance company obligations, and support investment and recycling.

Key points

  1. The Commission should set at least two cut-off dates per year for Strategic Project calls, with possible additional targeted calls considering the value-chain approach.
  2. The Commission, not Member States, should identify large companies using strategic raw materials to avoid duplication and Single Market fragmentation.
  3. Large companies must mitigate vulnerabilities by reducing use, improving material efficiency, diversifying supply, considering secondary materials, substituting, or replenishing stocks, including via joint purchasing.
  4. The Commission may request compliance explanations within 30 days and should support companies with guidance and tools.
  5. Risk mitigation measures must consider demand, supply, price volatility, trade flows, strategic partnerships, and specify maximum reliance on single third countries.
  6. Products with permanent magnets must be labelled, and recycled content reporting should use 'manufacturing waste' instead of 'pre-consumer waste', with a definition added.
  7. The Commission must adopt a delegated act within three months to set calculation rules and propose trajectories for waste shares and Union-originated waste targets.
  8. By 31 December 2031, the Commission shall set minimum recycled content shares for permanent magnets, considering fostering investments in post-consumer waste.
  9. The Commission should assess possible export restrictions on permanent magnet scrap and waste, and explore price-stabilisation mechanisms like Contracts for Difference.
  10. Improved coordination on strategic stocks via joint purchasing, and support for research, innovation, and defence-related investments are encouraged.
  11. The 2028 evaluation should assess binding benchmarks and the need for Union-level waste collection targets for critical raw materials.

Who is affected

  • Large companies using strategic raw materials face new obligations and Commission oversight.
  • Manufacturers of products with permanent magnets must label and report recycled content based on new definitions.
  • Project promoters benefit from predictable call dates and potential support mechanisms.

Figures and deadlines

  • At least two cut-off dates per year for Strategic Project calls.
  • 30 days to provide compliance information after Commission request.
  • 0,2 kg threshold for permanent magnet weight in products requiring recycled content disclosure.
  • Three months from entry into force for Commission to adopt delegated act on calculation rules.
  • 31 December 2031 deadline for setting minimum recycled content shares.

Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union