The European Commissioner for Financial Services, Mairead McGuinness, presented the outline of the future Critical Raw Materials Act to MEPs on 15 February. The Commission is expected to unveil it on 8 March (see EUROPE B13021A5). Its objectives are broadly shared by the European Parliament, which also wants to secure access to critical raw materials as a matter of urgency and promote circularity in their extraction and use.
Almost all speakers in the debate on this subject recalled the...