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Application for Strategic Project recognition |
Approval |
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- Description:
- The project promoter must submit a complete application for recognition of a critical raw-material project as a Strategic Project, including evidence, UN resource classification, timetable, public-acceptance plan, control information, business plan and, where applicable, additional plans.
- Frequency:
- One-time
- Check frequency:
- -
- Products/Services:
- Strategic raw-material projects
- Checking responsibility:
- European Commission
- Check method:
- Assessment of the application and evidence by the Commission
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Article 7(1)
- Source excerpt:
- Applications for recognition of a critical raw material project as a Strategic Project shall be submitted by the project promoter to the Commission. The application shall include:
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Biennial Strategic Project reporting |
Reporting |
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- Description:
- The project promoter must report every two years on implementation, permitting, delays and financing of the Strategic Project.
- Frequency:
- Biennial
- Check frequency:
- -
- Products/Services:
- Strategic Projects
- Checking responsibility:
- Project promoter; review by the Commission
- Check method:
- Review of biennial reports by the Commission
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Article 8(1)
- Source excerpt:
- The project promoter shall, every two years after the date of recognition as a Strategic Project, submit a report to the Commission
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Notification of material project changes |
Reporting |
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- Description:
- The project promoter must notify the Commission without delay of changes affecting the recognition criteria or lasting control of companies involved in the Strategic Project.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- -
- Products/Services:
- Strategic Projects
- Checking responsibility:
- Project promoter; review by the Commission
- Check method:
- Monitoring of project and control changes by the Commission
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Article 8(3)
- Source excerpt:
- The project promoter shall notify the Commission of: (a) changes to the Strategic Project affecting its fulfilment of the criteria laid down in Article 6(1); (b) changes in control of the undertakings involved in the Strategic Project on a lasting basis
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Public Strategic Project information |
Stakeholder Engagement |
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- Description:
- The project promoter must establish and regularly update a free-access website explaining, in particular, the project's environmental, social and economic impacts and benefits.
- Frequency:
- Continuous
- Check frequency:
- -
- Products/Services:
- Strategic Projects
- Checking responsibility:
- Project promoter
- Check method:
- Public review of the website
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Article 8(5)
- Source excerpt:
- The project promoter shall establish and regularly update the undertaking’s website or a dedicated project website with information relevant to the local population and to foster public acceptance about the Strategic Project
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Raw-material supply-chain risk assessment |
Due Diligence |
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- Description:
- The large company must at least every three years map its strategic-raw-material supply chain, analyse supply factors and assess its vulnerability to supply disruptions.
- Frequency:
- Other
- Check frequency:
- -
- Products/Services:
- Strategic-raw-material supply chains; batteries, hydrogen, renewable-energy, aviation, electronics, robotics and other strategic technologies
- Checking responsibility:
- Large company; board of directors where required
- Check method:
- Supply-chain risk assessment and, where required, presentation to the board of directors
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Article 24(2)
- Source excerpt:
- Large companies as referred to in paragraph 1 shall, at least every three years and to the extent the required information is available to them, carry out a risk assessment of their raw materials supply chain of strategic raw materials
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Mitigation of supply-chain vulnerabilities |
Due Diligence |
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- Description:
- If the risk assessment detects significant vulnerabilities, the large company must make efforts to mitigate them, including assessing diversification or substitution.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- -
- Products/Services:
- Strategic-raw-material supply chains
- Checking responsibility:
- Large company
- Check method:
- Assessment of identified vulnerabilities and mitigation measures
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Article 24(4)
- Source excerpt:
- If significant vulnerabilities to supply disruptions are detected as a result of the risk assessment referred to in paragraph 2, large companies as referred to under paragraph 1 shall take efforts to mitigate those vulnerabilities
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Study on recovery from extractive waste |
Due Diligence |
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- Description:
- The operator must prepare and submit a preliminary economic assessment study on the potential recovery of critical raw materials from stored and generated extractive waste.
- Frequency:
- One-time
- Check frequency:
- -
- Products/Services:
- Strategic raw materials in extractive waste
- Checking responsibility:
- Operators of extractive waste facilities
- Check method:
- Submission of the study to the competent authority
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Article 27(1)
- Source excerpt:
- Operators obliged to draw up waste management plans in accordance with Article 5 of Directive 2006/21/EC shall provide to the competent authority ... a preliminary economic assessment study regarding the potential recovery of critical raw materials
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Permanent-magnet labelling |
Record Keeping |
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- Description:
- The person placing covered products on the market must affix a conspicuous, clearly legible and indelible label indicating whether permanent magnets are incorporated and identifying their type.
- Frequency:
- Continuous
- Check frequency:
- -
- Products/Services:
- Products containing permanent magnets, including MRI devices, wind generators, robots, vehicles, heat pumps and electric motors
- Checking responsibility:
- Person placing the product on the Union market
- Check method:
- Conformity assessment and market surveillance
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Article 28(1)
- Source excerpt:
- any natural or legal person that places on the market magnetic resonance imaging devices, wind energy generators, industrial robots, motor vehicles, light means of transport, cooling generators, heat pumps, electric motors ... shall ensure that those products bear a conspicuous, clearly legible and indelible label
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Disclosure of recycled magnet materials |
Reporting |
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- Description:
- The person placing covered products on the market must publish on a free-access website, and make available before contract formation, the share of specified materials recovered from post-consumer waste in the permanent magnets.
- Frequency:
- Continuous
- Check frequency:
- -
- Products/Services:
- Products containing specified permanent magnets exceeding 0.2 kg total weight
- Checking responsibility:
- Person placing the product on the market
- Check method:
- Public review of the website and product information
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Article 29(1)
- Source excerpt:
- any natural or legal person that places on the market products referred to in Article 28(1) which incorporate one or more permanent magnets ... and for which the total weight of all such permanent magnets exceeds 0,2 kg shall make publicly available on a free-access website the share of neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, terbium, boron, samarium, nickel and cobalt recovered from post-consumer waste
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Environmental-footprint declaration |
Record Keeping |
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- Description:
- The person placing covered critical raw materials on the market must provide an understandable environmental-footprint declaration with the required information on a free-access website and make it available to customers before purchase.
- Frequency:
- Continuous
- Check frequency:
- -
- Products/Services:
- Critical raw materials for which calculation and verification rules exist
- Checking responsibility:
- Person placing critical raw materials on the market
- Check method:
- Conformity assessment and public-availability review
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Article 31(6)
- Source excerpt:
- Any natural or legal person that places on the market critical raw materials, including processed and recycled, for which the Commission has adopted calculation and verification rules pursuant to paragraph 1 shall make available an environmental footprint declaration.
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Pre-market conformity |
Approval |
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- Description:
- Before placing a covered product on the market, the responsible person must ensure completion of the applicable conformity assessment, draw up technical documentation and, where applicable, prepare the EU declaration of conformity and affix the CE marking.
- Frequency:
- Event-triggered
- Check frequency:
- -
- Products/Services:
- Products covered by Articles 28 or 29
- Checking responsibility:
- Responsible natural or legal person
- Check method:
- Conformity assessment, technical documentation, EU declaration of conformity and CE marking
- Rule set:
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- Source reference:
- Article 33(1)
- Source excerpt:
- Before placing a product covered by Article 28 or 29 on the market, the natural or legal persons responsible shall ensure that the applicable conformity assessment procedure has been carried out and that the required technical documentation has been drawn up.
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