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Critical Raw Materials Act In force

Overview

Jurisdiction
European Union
Topic
Trade
Instrument type
Regulation
Reference number
2024/1252
Valid from
2024-05-23
Valid to
0001-01-01
Modified date
2024-05-03
Listed at
2026-08-06
Withdrawn at
-
Description
Establishes an EU framework to ensure a secure, resilient and sustainable supply of critical raw materials. It sets requirements concerning strategic projects, permitting, risk management, circularity, recycling, sustainability certification and environmental footprint declarations.

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https://publications.europa.eu/resource/celex/32024R1252 Schokolade

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Rule sets

Label Effective
Project promoter of a critical raw-material project 2024-05-23 — 9999-12-31
Conditions:
  • Activities contains No Linked Attribute Value “developing a critical raw material project”
Large company manufacturing strategic technologies 2025-05-24 — 9999-12-31
Country scope:
AT, BE, BG, HR, CY, CZ, DK, EE, FI, FR, DE, GR, HU, IE, IT, LV, LT, LU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SI, ES, SE
Applies from milestone:
Other (2025-05-24)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
Operator of an extractive-waste facility subject to a waste-management-plan obligation 2024-05-23 — 9999-12-31
Country scope:
AT, BE, BG, HR, CY, CZ, DK, EE, FI, FR, DE, GR, HU, IE, IT, LV, LT, LU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SI, ES, SE

No conditions.
Persons placing covered permanent-magnet products on the market 2026-11-24 — 9999-12-31
Country scope:
AT, BE, BG, HR, CY, CZ, DK, EE, FI, FR, DE, GR, HU, IE, IT, LV, LT, LU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SI, ES, SE
Applies from milestone:
Other (2026-11-24)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Products contains No Linked Attribute Value “listed permanent-magnet products”
Persons placing declaration-covered critical raw materials on the market 2024-05-23 — 9999-12-31
Country scope:
AT, BE, BG, HR, CY, CZ, DK, EE, FI, FR, DE, GR, HU, IE, IT, LV, LT, LU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SI, ES, SE
Conditions:
  • Products contains No Linked Attribute Value “critical raw materials subject to adopted calculation and verification rules”
Recognised Strategic Project 2024-05-23 — 9999-12-31
Conditions:
  • Activities contains No Linked Attribute Value “recognised Strategic Project”
Products with qualifying permanent magnets above the weight threshold 2027-05-24 — 9999-12-31
Country scope:
AT, BE, BG, HR, CY, CZ, DK, EE, FI, FR, DE, GR, HU, IE, IT, LV, LT, LU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SI, ES, SE
Conditions:
  • Products contains No Linked Attribute Value “products with qualifying permanent magnets”

Questions this regulation asks

Attributes only this regulation asks about — criteria no general attribute expresses. A company answers each once.

This regulation asks no questions of its own — every condition uses a general attribute.

Obligations

Title Kind Rule set
Supply-chain risk assessment at least every three years Due Diligence -
Description:
Large companies must carry out, at least every three years, a risk assessment of their strategic-raw-material supply chain, including mapping origins, analysing supply factors and assessing vulnerability to supply disruptions.
Frequency:
Other
Check frequency:
Other
Products/Services:
Strategic raw materials used to manufacture batteries, hydrogen equipment, renewable-energy equipment, aircraft, traction motors, heat pumps, data-transmission and storage equipment, mobile electronic devices, additive-manufacturing equipment, robotics, drones, rocket launchers, satellites or advanced chips
Checking responsibility:
Large company
Check method:
Review of the risk assessment and documented mitigation measures
Rule set:
-
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, including:
Mitigation of significant supply-chain vulnerabilities Due Diligence -
Description:
If the risk assessment detects significant vulnerabilities to supply disruptions, the large company must take efforts to mitigate them, including assessing diversification of its raw-material supply chains or substitution of strategic raw materials.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
Event-triggered
Products/Services:
Strategic raw materials used by a large company
Checking responsibility:
Large company
Check method:
Review of identified significant vulnerabilities and mitigation measures
Rule set:
-
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, including by assessing the possibility to diversify its raw materials supply chains or to substitute the strategic raw materials.
Retention and accessibility of permanent-magnet information Record Keeping -
Description:
The responsible person must ensure that data-carrier information is complete, up to date and accurate, remains available for at least the product's typical lifetime plus ten years, and is accessible to repairers, recyclers, market-surveillance authorities and customs authorities.
Frequency:
Continuous
Check frequency:
Continuous
Products/Services:
Products containing the permanent-magnet types listed in Article 28(1)
Checking responsibility:
Person placing the product on the market
Check method:
Review of the data carrier, product identifier and stored information by market-surveillance or customs authorities
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 28(7)
Source excerpt:
The natural or legal person placing a product referred to in paragraph 3 on the market shall ensure that information referred to in paragraph 4 is complete, up-to-date, and accurate and remains available for a period at least equal to the product’s typical lifetime plus 10 years, including after an insolvency, a liquidation or a cessation of activity in the Union of the natural or legal person responsible.
Pre-contract access to recycled-content information Reporting -
Description:
When selling or displaying covered products, the person placing them on the market must give customers access to the recycled-content information before contract conclusion and must not use misleading labels or inscriptions.
Frequency:
Continuous
Check frequency:
Continuous
Products/Services:
Products containing permanent magnets with a total weight exceeding 0.2 kg
Checking responsibility:
Person placing the product on the market
Check method:
Review of the free-access website and information provided before purchase
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 29(5)
Source excerpt:
From the date of application of the requirement set out in paragraph 1, when offering the products referred to in paragraph 1 for sale, including in the case of distance selling, or displaying them in the course of a commercial activity, natural and legal persons placing on the market products referred to in paragraph 1 shall ensure that their customers have access to the information referred to in paragraph 1 before being bound by a sales contract.
Pre-market conformity assessment and CE marking Approval -
Description:
Before placing the product on the market, the responsible person must ensure completion of the applicable conformity assessment and technical documentation and, where conformity is demonstrated, ensure that the EU declaration of conformity is drawn up and the CE marking is affixed.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
Event-triggered
Products/Services:
Products covered by Article 28 or 29
Checking responsibility:
Natural or legal person responsible for the product
Check method:
Conformity assessment, technical documentation, EU declaration of conformity and CE marking before placing on the market
Rule set:
-
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. Where compliance of a product with the applicable requirements has been demonstrated by the conformity assessment procedure, the natural or legal persons responsible shall ensure that an EU declaration of conformity has been drawn up and the CE marking has been affixed.
Provision of available data for monitoring and stress testing Reporting -
Description:
A company identified as a key market operator must, following a proportionate Member State request, provide data already available to it for monitoring and stress testing or give reasons for refusal or unavailability; trade secrets need not be disclosed.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
Event-triggered
Products/Services:
Strategic technologies manufactured by a large company
Checking responsibility:
Large company acting as a key market operator, where requested by a Member State
Check method:
Review of requested data and the company's reasons for refusal or unavailability
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 21(2)
Source excerpt:
Key market operators may refuse to submit data requested pursuant to point (a) of the first subparagraph if the sharing of such data would lead to the disclosure of trade or business secrets. They shall submit such data only to the extent that it is already available to them. Where a key market operator refuses to submit data requested or claims that it is not available, it shall provide the requesting Member State with reasons therefor.

Measures

No measures.

Penalties

Description Kind Rule set
Member States must establish and implement effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties for infringements of the Regulation; the Regulation does not specify the type or amount of the penalties. Other -
Responsible authority:
Member States and their competent national authorities
Source reference:
Article 47
Source excerpt:
By 24 November 2026, Member States shall lay down rules on penalties applicable to infringements of this Regulation and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. The penalties provided for shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.

Milestones

Date Type Description
2025-05-24 Other Deadline for the implementing act listing products, components and waste streams with relevant critical-raw-material recovery potential
Source reference:
Article 26(7)
Source excerpt:
By 24 May 2025, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts specifying a list of products, components and waste streams that shall at least be considered as having a relevant critical raw materials recovery potential within the meaning of paragraph 1, points (b) and (c).
2025-05-24 Other Deadline for the implementing act listing products, components and waste streams with relevant critical-raw-material recovery potential
Source reference:
Article 26(7)
Source excerpt:
By 24 May 2025, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts specifying a list of products, components and waste streams that shall at least be considered as having a relevant critical raw materials recovery potential within the meaning of paragraph 1, points (b) and (c).
2026-11-24 Other Deadline for extractive-waste operators to submit preliminary economic assessments
Source reference:
Article 27(3)
Source excerpt:
By 24 November 2026, operators of extractive waste facilities shall submit the study referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article to the competent authority
2029-05-24 Application Start Start of application of permanent-magnet requirements to MRI devices, motor vehicles and category-L light means of transport
Source reference:
Article 28(10)
Source excerpt:
From 24 May 2029, this Article shall apply to magnetic resonance imaging devices, motor vehicles and light means of transport that are type-approved vehicles of category L.
2031-12-31 Other Latest date for delegated acts on minimum recycled-material shares in permanent magnets
Source reference:
Article 29(3)
Source excerpt:
After the entry into force of the delegated act adopted pursuant to paragraph 2, and in any event by 31 December 2031, the Commission shall adopt delegated acts supplementing this Regulation by laying down minimum shares for neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, terbium, boron, samarium, nickel and cobalt recovered from post-consumer waste that must be present in the permanent magnet incorporated in the products referred to in paragraph 1.

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