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Clean Industrial Deal

TA-10-2025-0137 · P10_TA(2025)0137 · PE773.358

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Parliament welcomes the Clean Industrial Deal as a step to strengthen competitiveness and decarbonisation, urging swift implementation and further measures. It supports the Industrial Decarbonisation Bank, affordable energy action, grid expansion, faster permits, and all clean technologies including nuclear. It calls for hydrogen rules, skills strategies, lead markets, circular economy, trade defence, CBAM simplification, carbon management, SME funding, and sector plans.

Key points

  1. Welcomes the Clean Industrial Deal and urges the Commission to move from strategy to action, expanding proposed actions.
  2. Supports the Industrial Decarbonisation Bank and its EUR 100 billion goal, the EUR 1 billion pilot auction, and Carbon Contracts for Difference.
  3. Backs the Action Plan for Affordable Energy, PPAs, CfDs, and de-risking tools for energy-intensive industries.
  4. Calls for boosting cross-border energy infrastructure and achieving the 15 % interconnection target.
  5. Urges finalising the Energy Taxation Directive revision and short-term relief for industry and households.
  6. Encourages coordinated state aid and public support conditional on safeguarding jobs and social dialogue.
  7. Endorses faster permitting while respecting environmental safeguards, and calls for the Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act.
  8. Recognises renewable and nuclear energy as essential, and supports small modular reactors and fusion research.
  9. Calls for an EU strategy on energy flexibility and recognises the energy efficiency sector as strategic.
  10. Calls for a definition of low-carbon hydrogen and changes to RFNBO rules to increase production and lower prices.
  11. Urges sectoral dialogues and annual monitoring of industrial ecosystems.
  12. Calls for a coordinated industrial skills strategy and use of EU funds for up- and reskilling.

Who is affected

  • Energy-intensive industries and clean tech sector benefit from funding and support.
  • Member states must improve administrative capacities and implement energy directives.
  • SMEs get accessible funding and simplified applications.
  • Non-EU actors causing market distortions may be denied market access.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 100 billion in funding for the Industrial Decarbonisation Bank.
  • EUR 1 billion pilot auction for industrial decarbonisation.
  • 15 % interconnection target.