Euromines recommendations for an action package for ensuring the secure supply of sustainable resources for Europe
Domestic issues - Increase supply from European resources
Proposed key actions:
Facilitate exploration activities in Europe by re-establishing or increasing national expenditure for exploration with new technologies including the use of GMES services and reinforcing the mineral intelligence at national and EU levels.
Strengthen the compatibility of extraction and environment, health and safety protection by supporting research and best practices in environmental management, including biodiversity.
Investing at national level into universities and educational programmes for the sector to increase the longer term perspective of new resources and new applications which would improve the sustainability of the use of resources for the future.
The EU list of Critical Raw Materials is based on evaluations of economic importance and supply risk in Europe. 2017 saw the third list of critical raw materials published with 9 new materials added.