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Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions
Joint motion RC-10-2025-0324-AM-002-008
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- Amendment list RC-10-2025-0324-AM-002-008
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- 9 July 2025
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| 1a. Calls for the EU and China to use the upcoming summit as an opportunity to ease trade tensions and jointly revive multilateralism by advocating global trade rules guided by the principles of solidarity, cooperation, sustainability and democracy; |
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| 2a. Rejects rivalry and bloc-building, which risk empowering authoritarian and ultranationalist forces, heightening geopolitical tensions and increasing competition for critical raw materials; |
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| 8. Urges the Commission and the Member States to accelerate the implementation of the CRMA; stresses the important role of the European Raw Materials Board and its sub-groups for the rapid and efficient implementation of the CRMA; recalls the clear and ambitious targets set to reinforce EU capacities to extract, process and recycle SRMs domestically by 2030; highlights the selection of the first 60 strategic projects under the CRMA; | 8. Urges the Commission and the Member States to accelerate the implementation of the CRMA; stresses the important role of the European Raw Materials Board and its sub-groups for the rapid and efficient implementation of the CRMA; recalls the clear and ambitious targets set to reinforce EU capacities to extract, process and recycle SRMs domestically by 2030; highlights the selection of the first 60 strategic projects under the CRMA; underlines that the selection procedure is lacking transparency and is conducted without consulting the affected populations; recalls the need to have broad approval among the affected populations when developing mining and industrial projects; |
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| 10. Underlines the need for the EU to mine domestically and re-establish processing capacity; underlines that increasing the efficiency of resource use through technological innovation is one of the objectives of the CRMA; emphasises the potential of recycling and urban mining to alleviate supply constraints in the short term and asks the Commission to take immediate measures to improve the collection and retention of REEs in the internal market; | 10. Underlines the need for the EU to mine domestically through publicly owned entities and re-establish processing capacity while ensuring that the populations affected consent, and stresses that these activities should be carried out solely for the purposes of implementing the green transition and strengthening European autonomy in strategic sectors; underlines that increasing the efficiency of resource use through technological innovation is one of the objectives of the CRMA; emphasises the potential of recycling and urban mining to alleviate supply constraints in the short term and asks the Commission to take immediate measures to improve the collection and retention of REEs in the internal market; |
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| 12a. Highlights that by pushing for liberalisation and restricting export taxes or dual-pricing policies, EU trade agreements limit developing countries’ policy space to pursue their own industrialisation and value-addition strategies; insists that any new agreements must explicitly support value addition in partner countries, prioritising processing and recycling projects over extractive ones, and that they must include incentives for the domestic procurement and local processing of mined critical raw materials; |
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| 13. Calls, furthermore, for stronger engagement to conclude clean trade and investment partnerships (CTIPs) and bilateral strategic partnerships on raw materials that are based on true win-win partnerships and meet high sustainability and human rights standards; insists on the need to move towards binding agreements on CRMs to ensure the long-term security of the EU’s supplies, guarantee more transparency and ensure that Parliament has scrutiny powers; underlines the importance of free trade agreements and the Global Gateway initiative in enhancing access to CRMs; | 13. Calls, furthermore, for stronger engagement to conclude clean trade and investment partnerships (CTIPs) and bilateral strategic partnerships on raw materials that are based on true win-win partnerships and meet high sustainability and human rights standards; stresses the need for these CTIPs to be designed in such a way that the added value is primarily retained by the country in which minerals are extracted; insists on the need to move towards binding agreements on CRMs to ensure the long-term security of the EU’s supplies, guarantee more transparency and ensure that Parliament has scrutiny powers; underlines the importance of free trade agreements and the Global Gateway initiative in enhancing access to CRMs; |
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| 13a. Insists that any external sourcing of raw materials must adhere to the highest international social, environmental and governance standards and calls for strategic partnerships on raw materials to include clear, specific and binding measures for mandatory due diligence on the environmental, social and human rights impact for companies involved in the supply chain; |
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European Parliament (2025). “B10-0324/2025 } - B10-0329/2025 } - B10-0330/2025 } - B10-0331/2025 } - B10-0332/2025 } RC1/Am. 2 - Amendment 2 - Martin Schirdewan, Marc Botenga, Danilo Della Valle - on behalf of The Left Group - Joint motion for a resolution - PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE - Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions”. Text, 9 July 2025. docId RC-10-2025-0324-AM-002-008, reference RC-B10-0324/2025. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/RC-10-2025-0324-AM-002-008 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/RC-10-2025-0324-AM-002-008 (CC BY 4.0).
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year = {2025},
date = {2025-07-09},
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urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
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