Association of Big Industrial Energy Consumers Romania
ABIEC
ABIEC represents the voice of Romanian big energy industry consumers on all matters relevant for their industrial competitiveness - such as energy, trade, climate change, industrial policy.
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Lobbying Activity
Response to Technical updates of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) State aid guidelines
4 Sept 2025
Input on Call for evidence on technical updates of the ETS State Aid Guidelines is attached.
Read full responseMeeting with Piotr Serafin (Commissioner) and
24 Apr 2025 · Exchange of views on access to EU Funding
Response to 2040 Climate Target Plan
23 Jun 2023
This paper provides our position and main recommendations for the 2040 EU Climate Target public consultation. The Association of the Big Industrial Energy Consumers (ABIEC) brings together representatives of Romanias energy-intensive industries, including Alro Slatina, Tenaris Silcotub, Arcelor Mittal Romania, Liberty Steel, Saint Gobain Glass, Romcim and BA Glass. ABIECs main purpose is to promote and represent the interests of its members, which are producers from various sectors of the industry qualifying as large consumers of energy under European legislation. We firmly believe that for the EU to successfully achieve its ambitions, it is imperative to embrace a set of comprehensive recommendations that will allow for a prosperous economic and natural environment for both EU citizens and its industry. Considering the 2040 EU Climate Target, we propose the following: Setting up the appropriate enabling conditions for a thriving European industry: Europes climate ambitions need science-based and economically viable measures to make sure that European citizens do not become poorer and European businesses do not loose competitiveness. This entails a multifaceted strategy encompassing not only financial incentives but also an appropriate regulatory framework that reduced production costs and refrains from adding more. Europe does not need more politically-driven targets, Europe needs a solid, investment-inducive, attractive economic policy that delivers decarbonisation because it makes economic sense. Create a business case for decarbonisation: To achieve decarbonisation, it is necessary to develop a compelling business case that motivates industries to embrace sustainable practices. By providing the correct economic incentives and easy-to-access financial support, market opportunities, and by guaranteeing the long-term viability of decarbonisation, the EU can increase the industrys potential to transition to greener solutions, in an easily accessible with low bureaucracy process. Ensuring global competitiveness of European industry: The 2040 climate ambition must ensure that its goals are achieved through preserving Europes existing industrial base, maintaining its competitiveness while also fostering investments in new metals production capacities. Europes security and strategic autonomy can be achieved only through taking care of its existing industrial base through evidence- based climate policies and comprehensive support measures. Globally competitive electricity prices: High electricity costs place an undue burden on the EU industry, impeding its ability to compete on a global scale and to secure Europes strategic autonomy. High electricity costs are a European problem as they are not met elsewhere in the world where our competitors operate. By implementing policies that promote affordable and globally-competitive electricity prices, the EU can encourage investment, bolster economic growth and achieve climate ambitions with European metals and technologies. Ensuring adequate carbon leakage protection: European metals industry is operating in a regulatory environment unique in the world ETS, electricity market based on marginal pricing system, strict competition rules, extremely ambitious climate policies and high costs that negatively affects its ability of competing with other industries. It is therefore vital for Europes strategic autonomy to strive for a level playing field and for providing sufficient carbon leakage protection to its economy in order to deliver global carbon emissions reductions. A reduced European industrial base will determine increased global emissions and imports of respective emissions. Proactive full value chain industrial policy: To realise the potential of clean technologies, the EU must adopt a proactive full value chain approach that reduces costs for doing business in Europe, inspires innovation, attracts investments, and is oriented towards guaranteeing predi
Read full responseResponse to 2030 Climate Target Plan
15 Apr 2020
Association of Big Industrial Energy Consumers in Romania (ABIEC) brings together representatives of the energy-intensive industry, such as: Alro Slatina, Tenaris Silcotub, Arcelor Mittal Romania, Liberty Steel, CRH Romania, Saint Gobain Glass, and its main purpose is to promote and represent the interests of the its members - producers from various sectors of the industry who qualify as large energy consumers.
In the European Green Deal, the European Commission proposes increasing the EU’s GHG target for 2030. ABIEC finds appropriate the European Commission’s intent to first carry out an assessment on the economic, social and environmental impacts of such an increased target.
A solid impact assessment must take into consideration the present economic and jobs climate created by the COVID-19 crisis, must identify and evaluate both the negative costs of such ambition (job losses, carbon leakage or just companies’ closure) and the actual sources of financing the investments required by political ambition. A credible and serious impact assessment will provide a thorough analysis of the money available on the market in a post-COVID scenario and lengthy COVID scenario and it will indicate the actual funding available and its related costs (interest rates etc.).
Read full responseResponse to Fast-track interservice consultation on the 'SEIP including a JTM and the JTF"
12 Mar 2020
Asociația Marilor Consumatori Industriali de Energie – ABIEC - reunește reprezentanți ai industriei energo-intensive din Romania, precum: Liberty Group, Alro Slatina, Arcelor Mittal Hunedoara, CRH România, Saint Gobain Glass, Tenaris-Silcotub și are ca scop principal promovarea şi reprezentarea intereselor agenților economici-producători din diverse sectoare ale industriei care se califică drept mari consumatori industriali de energie în conformitate cu legislația europeană.
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