“The best thing about the proposal is that it now exists,” says René Repasi on the phone, shortly after the publication of the Commission’s draft for a Right to Repair. The SPD MEP is still visibly upset by the negative assessment of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB), which caused a significant delay. In an exchange […]
A railroad track on the edge of the forest south of the German-Polish border town of Guben, a few hundred meters from the Neisse River: freight cars filled with lithium rock from Canada are soon to arrive here. Europe’s first lithium converter is to start operations in two years on the adjacent brownfield site, where […]
The goal of the Critical Raw Materials Act presented last week to cover 40 percent of the EU’s demand for strategic raw materials from its own processing is considered unrealistic by representatives from politics, industry and civil society. Speaking at a Europe.Table event on the new draft law on Wednesday, Hildegard Bentele (EPP) said this […]
By 2030, the EU aims to have much larger quantities of important raw materials available for industry – in this way, Brussels wants to break free of its dependence on China in particular. The draft of the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) presented on Wednesday stipulates that by 2030Europe.Table already reported last week on the […]
“After 18 months of work, it’s over with naivety, now it’s time for action,” Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said yesterday at noon when he presented the Critical Raw Materials Act together with Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis. Europe.Table had already reported on the contents of the leaked draft last week. Breton was referring to the […]
By 2030, supply chain capacity for strategically important raw materials within the EU is to be significantly increased – according to the EU Commission’s draft Critical Raw Materials Act, which it plans to publish next week. A leak emerged yesterday, that was first reported by the Financial Times and is available to Europe.Table. You can […]
An agreement on the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol is taking shape in the United Kingdom. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will travel to London today to hold talks with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The latter announced over the weekend that he wanted to bring the negotiations to a conclusion and summoned the Tory MPs […]
By 2025, member states are to ensure that 55 percent of their residential waste is recycled or reused. The Commission already warned last year that more than half of the EU-27 are running the risk of falling short of the targets set out in the EU’s Waste Framework Directive. It has already been working for […]
The Critical Raw Materials Act, which the Commission is expected to unveil on March 14, will also regulate stronger monitoring of critical raw materials at the EU level. “Coordination of monitoring and risk management at the EU level remains insufficient to anticipate and prevent supply disruptions of critical raw materials,” the call for public consultation […]
At its zero-carbon lithium project in the Upper Rhine Graben, Vulcan Energy Resources plans to produce a significantly higher volume of lithium than previously planned. This is according to the final feasibility study, which was published on Monday. According to the study, 24,000 tons of lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM) per year can be mined at […]