EU-policy on Raw Materials

• European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Raw Materials
• EIP Strategic Implementation Plan, 2014
  •      Part I
  •      Part II
• Report on National Minerals Policy Indicators, DG Enterprise and Industry, 2014
• European Union Raw Materials Knowledge Base (EURMKB)
• Exchange of best practices in the area of land use planning and administrative conditions for exploration and extraction, ad-hoc expert group on the exchange of best practices
  • First report (June 2011)
    • Abridged report
    • Full report
  • Second report (November 2014)
    • Full report
• National mineral strategies and policy papers

Several European countries have already published national strategies and/or minerals policies, see:

EU projects providing information on raw materials

• AEGOS (African-European Georesources Observation System)
• EGDI-Scope (Pan-European Geological Data Infrastructure)
• EURARE (EU Rare Earth Sustainable Exploitation)
• EuroGeoSource
• Minerals4EU (Minerals Intelligence Network for Europe)
• Minventory (Statistical information on EU raw materials deposits)
• ProMine (Nano-particle products from new mineral resources in Europe)
• SARMa (Sustainable Aggregate Resource Management)
• SNAP-SEE (Sustainable aggregates planning in South East Europe)