Industrial raw materials are essential to everyday life - for instance, did you know that your mobile phone is made using 50+ different minerals and metals? 

The OECD's newest video "Trade in Raw Materials" demonstrates how overly restrictive export policy in the raw materials sector can have adverse effects on economic growth and development. 

There is more “joined-up thinking” on the agenda in Brussels that should better target the practical issues miners are facing in Europe, according to president of industry lobby group, Euromines, Mark Rachovides.

Euromines welcomes the EU’s Raw Materials Week and its various events and insists that a continued long-term approach to raw materials by the EU is vital to its economic development and recovery. 

The round-table series 2016 is organized by the EESC’s Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI) in partnership with relevant European and national organizations: Euromines, Euracoal, IndustriAll Europe, the European Commission and numerous national high level partners from academia, geological surveys, NGOs and civil society.