‘We want to make an offer at eye l • Table.Briefings

Nicola Beer is Vice-President of the European Parliament and rapporteur for the Critical Raw Materials Act.

The run on raw materials has woken up Brussels. With the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), the European Union wants to secure access to strategically important raw materials and reduce dependencies on countries like China. Leonie Duengefeld and Amelie Richter spoke with Nicola Beer (FPD), who is in charge of the new legislation in the EU Parliament, about the ambitious plan.

The EU is dependent on China for a lot of materials, for instance, we currently obtain 98 percent of magnesium – in other words, almost everything – from the People’s Republic. The EU Parliament’s draft stipulates that the share of processed raw materials from third countries is to be reduced to 65 percent by 2030. How is that supposed to happen?

‘We want to make an offer at eye level’

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