EU POLICY
Energy & Climate Change
Serve as an on-going forum for Euromines members and to facilitate sharing of Euromines’ collective knowledge on climate and energy issues. The committee also provides to the members an opportunity to be involved in the EU legislative process, anticipate changes to the energy and climate regulatory framework with direct implications on operation costs and competitiveness and develop solutions to ensure industrial competitiveness during the transition towards climate neutrality.
- Assess the implications, risks and impacts of energy and climate change EU level legislation and advocate in the interests of the members
- Demonstrating mining’s contribution to achieving a climate-neutral economy
- Focus on input-costs and operational competitiveness
- Ensure the industry interests is known and ideally accepted by the EU Institutions.
2040 Target
- Impact Assessment Emissions Trading System - ETS
- Implementation of the revised ETS Directive: maintaining level of process emissions, sintered ore BM review, treatment of CCU
- Carbon leakage measures after 2030
- Indirect cost compensation
- ETS convergence towards
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism - CBAM
- Scope expansion to precursors
- Calculation methodology
- Export mechanism
Renewable Energy
- Recycled Carbon Fuels
- RFNBO additionality
- Treatment of organic bio-fuels
Energy Market Design
- Price Shock Absorber
- Decoupling gas pricing from electricity price setting
- Market liquidity
Sustainability
Institutionalise horizontal sustainability-interests in related policy files that are relevant to the membership and draw on the collective knowledge of the Committee to define policy-requests and steer ESG-related policies.
- Assess the implications of ESG-related EU policies and advocate in the interests of the members in ordinary and delegated legislative procedures towards policy makers and within expert fora.
- Exchange of best practices and knowledge within the European mining sector.
- Ensure the industry interests is known and ideally accepted by the EU Institutions.
- Taxonomy technical screening criteria for mining
- EFRAG sustainability reporting standards
- EU sustainable raw materials standard development
Environment
Serve as an on-going forum for Euromines members and to facilitate sharing of Euromines’ collective knowledge. The platform also provides to the members an opportunity to be more involved in the EU legislative process, to develop proactive environmental strategies and to advocate towards the EU Institutions and international stakeholders.
- Assess the implications of Environmental EU level legislation and advocate in the interests of the members, allowing to optimize the opportunities and minimizing the risks for the sector.
- Exchange of best practices inside the European mining sector.
- Ensure the industry interests are known and ideally accepted by the EU Institutions
Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) Review – IED 2.0
- Metals mining inclusion – New MIN BREF
Water Framework Directive
- Non deterioration principle
- Priority Substances (PS) Review - Watch List: Sulphates/Xanthates
Soil Monitoring Law proposal
Implementation of EU environmental legislation:
- Nature Restoration law
- Ambient Air Quality Directive
Health & Safety
Facilitates the exchange of collective knowledge on health and safety initiatives in the mining sector. This platform empowers members to actively participate in the EU legislative process, develop forward-thinking health and safety strategies, and advocate for these issues before EU institutions and relevant stakeholders.
- Provides a collaborative space for members to develop and share strategic approaches to health and safety, enabling proactive management of workplace risks and compliance with evolving EU directives.
- Vigilantly monitors and assesses the impact of EU-level health and safety legislation on the mining sector.
- Promotes the sharing of exemplary health and safety practices within the European mining industry to enhance workers protection and operational safety standards.
Carcinogens, Mutagens and Reprotoxic Substances Directive (CMRD)
- Lead, Cobalt, Welding Fumes, Diesel Exhaust
- Emissions, Respirable Crystalline silica
Chemical Agents Directive (CAD)
- NO and NO2
Prevention of work fatalities and injuries
Annual Safety Performance Report
Euromines Safety Awards
REACH
Magnesite and Magnesia
Make understand how strategic the sector is. Magnesite transformed to various forms of magnesia is necessary for steelmaking, the production of non-ferrous metals, glass, and ceramics. More than half of the critical and strategic raw materials of the EU depend on magnesite as input factor.
Assess the implication of Magnesite and magnesia in the energy intensive industries.
Value EU producers struggling with the international competitors
Promote the EU magnesia industry and its contribution as enabler to a low carbon economy
- Secure recognition of magnesia and magnesite as critical raw materials within the CRMA to strengthen the EU’s resource security and industrial resilience.
- Prevent the inclusion of mined raw materials as precursors under CBAM, ensuring that the mining sector is not unfairly penalised and remains competitive globally.
- Advocate for the mining sector’s role in CCUS technologies, aiming for future legislative frameworks to support and integrate mining-related contributions to climate mitigation, despite the current regulatory gap.
Raw material policy
Identify and act on opportunities, to pro-actively and strategically facilitate the development of positions for Euromines and its members, and to accomplish improved access for mining companies to EU mineral resources through improving policies at the EU and national level.
- Acting on key upcoming EU and related national policies.
- Demonstrating the positive contribution of mining to the EU Green Deal.
- Promoting a sustainable and prosperous European mining industry.
Chairs of all Euromines’ Committees present policy files
Critical Raw Materials Act implementation
EU Raw Materials Strategy and Critical Raw Materials list
Mine of the Future and Mining Transition Pathway
EU Industrial Strategy
Sustainability standards and performance indicators (CRMA, CEN CENELEC, ISO, ICMM…)