Critical raw materials: 40 percent processing in the EU ‘too ambitious’

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 target in particular was very ambitious and still needed to be reviewed in the further legislative process. A „one size fits all“ approach might not be able to do justice to all individual raw materials.