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Energy-intensive industries
TA-10-2025-0065 · P10_TA(2025)0065 · PE772.489
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Parliament's resolution on energy-intensive industries calls for measures to cut energy costs, speed up permits, boost investment, secure raw materials, and ensure fair trade, while supporting decarbonisation and a just transition.¶¶¶
Key points
- Calls on Member States to speed up permits 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, promotion of power purchase agreements and contracts for difference, and measures to reduce energy costs for industries.¶
- Asks the Commission to scale up best practices like Italy's energy release and recommend reducing taxes, levies, and harmonising network charges.¶
- Calls for better energy system integration, cross-border interconnections, and investment in flexibility, storage, and demand response.¶
- Underlines phasing out natural gas, but for hard-to-abate sectors supports carbon capture, low-carbon hydrogen, and measures to address gas price spikes.¶
- Calls for support for clean technologies via funding and effective use of ETS revenue, with State aid complementing EU support.¶
- Requests topping up InvestEU, using leftover RRF loans, and increasing MFF funding for EII decarbonisation, including scaling up the European Hydrogen Bank.¶
- Stresses simplifying bureaucracy to attract private investment, with InvestEU and EIB playing key roles.¶
- Emphasises securing critical raw materials, improving circularity, defining strategic secondary raw materials, and enforcing waste shipment rules.¶
- Calls for full use of trade defence instruments, a permanent solution to unfair competition before 2026, and engagement with the US on tariffs.¶
- Stresses effective CBAM implementation, addressing resource shuffling, and finding solutions for EU exporters, with possible extension to more sectors.¶
- Calls for lead markets for clean products via public procurement criteria, labelling, and EU content requirements, and for a just transition with upskilling and regional support.¶¶
Who is affected
- Energy-intensive industries in the EU, including chemicals, steel, paper, plastics, mining, refineries, cement, and others.¶¶
- Workers and communities in regions reliant on energy-intensive industries, benefiting from just transition measures.¶¶
- Small and medium-sized enterprises, which face barriers to long-term agreements and need support.¶¶