RESourceEU Action Plan
Summary
RESourceEU is intended to reduce critical-raw-material supply risks through finance, faster permitting, recycling, diversification and international partnerships. A CRM financing hub aims to mobilise EUR 3 billion within 12 months, while Horizon Europe calls of EUR 593 million and EUR 100 million of blended European Innovation Council finance support its objectives. The plan also backs projects in Greenland and Germany, raw-material matchmaking, stockpiling, export-scrap measures, foreign-investment controls and standards-based markets.
Action items
1–6 of 24 items
Source order · D = digital dimension- Item 1
The Commission will set up a multi-pillars CRM financing hub to de-risk CRMs projects through a range of EU instruments, including InvestEU, the EU Innovation Fund, the Battery Booster or the European Defence Industry Programme. It aims to mobilise EUR 3 billion within the next 12 months.
- Item 2
The Commission, Member States and partner countries will further operationalise the Strategic Partnerships by accelerating support to projects in third countries through technical assistance, guarantee and blending instruments supported by EU diplomatic and economic tools.
- Item 3
To kick-start the implementation of RESourceEU, the Commission and the EIB are today unlocking financial support for 2 CRMs projects that will promptly deliver on the EU needs: Greenland Resources’ Malmbjerg molybdenum project to achieve supply security for the defence sector; and Vulcan's lithium's extraction Strategic Project in Germany, to contribute to supply of battery raw materials. The project secured EUR 250 million of financial support from the European Investment Bank.
- Item 4
The Commission will propose adjustments to the EU regulatory framework on permitting to improve the framework conditions to help CRM projects become operational more quickly.
- Item 5
By Q1 2026, the Commission will issue a guidance on the Water Framework Directive and, by
- Item 6
Q2 2026, the Commission will review and revise it.