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Boliden Group

Boliden is a Nordic metals company focused on mining, smelting and metal recycling with operations across Europe.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Axel Hellman (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

19 Nov 2025 · EU environmental legislation

Meeting with Heléne Fritzon (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Sept 2025 · miljö- och klimatfrågor

Boliden urges EU to include nickel in CBAM scope

25 Aug 2025
Topic — Extending the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to downstream products and anti-circumvention measures.
Message — Boliden proposes adding all intermediate and refined nickel products to CBAM by 2026. They further recommend extending the scope vertically to finished goods to prevent circumvention.12
Why — Including nickel would protect European low-carbon producers from being undercut by cheaper, high-emission imports.3
Impact — High-emission foreign producers would lose their competitive advantage and face pressure to adopt cleaner technologies.4
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Meeting with Heiko Kunst (Head of Unit Climate Action), Mette Koefoed Quinn (Head of Unit Climate Action) and

3 Jun 2025 · Exchange of views on EU climate policy and challenges faced by the represented Swedish industries.

Meeting with Radan Kanev (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Jun 2025 · Access to clean energy and permitting

Meeting with Nina Carberry (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Jun 2025 · Critical Raw Materials

Meeting with Martin Hojsík (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and European Association of Mining Industries, Metal Ores & Industrial Minerals and

28 Apr 2025 · Soil monitoring law, mining areas

Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and

9 Apr 2025 · Operations in the EU and decarbonisation challenge, Discussion on Clean industrial Deal and the Steel and Metals Action Plan

Meeting with Martin Hojsík (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and European Association of Mining Industries, Metal Ores & Industrial Minerals

28 Mar 2025 · Soil law and mining industry

Meeting with Tomas Tobé (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Mar 2025 · Industrial Policy

Meeting with Alice Teodorescu Måwe (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Mar 2025 · High-level dinner: baseload power and raw materials for a clean and competitive industrial deal

Meeting with Koen Van De Casteele (Director Competition) and Luossavaara Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag and RHI MAGNESITA

25 Feb 2025 · Presentation of Euromines study and companies’ efforts to decarbonise mining of basic metals and critical raw materials, as well as challenges regarding CCUS project development. Exchange of views on new State aid framework steps.

Meeting with Astrid Van Mierlo (Head of Unit Taxation and Customs Union) and European Association of Mining Industries, Metal Ores & Industrial Minerals and

25 Feb 2025 · Physical meeting - Exchange of views on the policy design and implementation of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and

19 Feb 2025 · Dialogue on the future of the automotive sector – Battery Session

Meeting with Ciaran Mullooly (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Feb 2025 · Multiple issues

Meeting with Ciaran Mullooly (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Jan 2025 · Multiple issues

Meeting with Jussi Saramo (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Jan 2025 · Kaivostoiminta ja metallinjalostus osana vihreää siirtymää

Meeting with Eero Heinäluoma (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Jan 2025 · Current Affairs

Meeting with Tomas Tobé (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Jan 2025 · Industrial Policy

Meeting with Jessika Roswall (Commissioner) and

11 Dec 2024 · Discussions focussed on the circular economy and critical raw materials, including third country aspects. Permitting, CBAM and the EU Emission Trading System were mentioned as well.

Meeting with Mika Aaltola (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Dec 2024 · EU Affairs

Meeting with Fernand Kartheiser (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Nov 2024 · Mining Industry

Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

28 Nov 2024 · Water policy & circular economy

Meeting with Alice Teodorescu Måwe (Member of the European Parliament) and Talga Group

27 Nov 2024 · Informative session

Meeting with Aura Salla (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Nov 2024 · Introductory meeting

Meeting with Sofie Eriksson (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Sept 2024 · Presentation av Boliden om bolaget och dess verksamhet

Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament) and Luossavaara Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag

29 May 2024 · Water Management for a More Sustainable Raw Materials Industry

Meeting with David Lega (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Feb 2024 · Energy

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič) and International Copper Association Europe and

16 Jan 2024 · Clean air

Meeting with Elena Montani (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius) and International Copper Association Europe and

16 Jan 2024 · Clean air

Meeting with Sara Skyttedal (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Dec 2023 · Soil monitoring and resilience

Meeting with Sara Skyttedal (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Nov 2023 · Citical Raw Materials Act

Meeting with Jessica Polfjärd (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

15 Nov 2023 · Critical Raw Materials

Boliden Group urges price shock absorber in EU electricity reform

11 May 2023
Topic — A reform of EU electricity market rules to reduce the impact of gas prices.
Message — Boliden proposes a price shock absorber to prevent the most expensive plants from setting high electricity prices for all users. They request EU guarantee schemes to support voluntary power purchase agreements while opposing subsidies for wind and solar power. They also call for a liquid, long-term financial market to increase pricing transparency.123
Why — Decoupling electricity prices from fossil fuel costs would protect the company's industrial competitiveness.45
Impact — Renewable energy developers would lose public subsidies for mature technologies like wind and solar.6
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Meeting with Pär Holmgren (Member of the European Parliament)

9 May 2023 · Critical Raw Materials

Meeting with Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner) and

3 Mar 2023 · Tour of the facility (Tara Mines) and discussion with management about the mining sector in Europe & sustainable finance.

Meeting with Ylva Johansson (Commissioner) and Luossavaara Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag and Swedish Association of Mines, Mineral and Metal Producers

19 Dec 2022 · critical raw materials

Meeting with Pierre-Arnaud Proux (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager) and European Association of Mining Industries, Metal Ores & Industrial Minerals and Swedish Association of Mines, Mineral and Metal Producers

19 Dec 2022 · Critical raw material

Response to European Critical Raw Materials Act

25 Nov 2022

Pls see the attached
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Meeting with Florika Fink-Hooijer (Director-General Environment)

7 Nov 2022 · Raw Materials Act

Response to Evaluation of the 2012 Directive on waste from electrical and electronic equipment

3 Nov 2022

Please find attached the comments from Boliden Smelters to the revision of the WEEE Directive.
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Meeting with Nils Torvalds (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Sept 2022 · Mining

Meeting with Pierre-Arnaud Proux (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager) and EUROMETAUX and

25 Jul 2022 · Raw materials.

Response to Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

18 Nov 2021

For more than 90 years, Boliden has been exploring for, extracting and processing metals and precious metals based on experience, innovation and modern technology. We are a part of the non-ferrous metals industry and our main products are zinc, copper, lead, nickel, gold and silver. Boliden supports the European commission´s increased climate ambition announced in the European Green Deal. Our view is that the transformation of Europe towards a fossil-free future needs to be based on the development of better techniques and the incentive of profit. Boliden does not believe that the propsed CBAM can effectively replace existing carbon leakage measures. CBAM should only be implemented if this can be done in a way that is complementary to the current EU ETS system and that results in an increased carbon leakage protection for EU industry, otherwise the result will be an increase of emissions on the global scale and the system will counteract its own purpose. The Mining and Metals industry needs: • Our sector is the most electro-intensive sector, therefore decarbonisation of EU power production will be the most important factor in the decarbonisation of our industry. • Due to the marginal cost pricing of electricity, European industry still pays the same price as electricity generated from coal, natural gas and oil, even if the electricity is fossil free. A support scheme, that could help electro-intensive consumers, who are particularly sensitive to electricity prices, to consume renewable electricity needs to be established. • Our industry is unable to pass on these extra costs to our customers, which creates a competitive disadvantage for European industry compared to producers outside Europe. Therefore, we are exposed to a significant risk of direct and indirect carbon leakage. • Our industry needs, access to fossil-free energy at competitive prices and time and regulatory stability to implement the necessary low-carbon technologies. Research and innovation projects as well as trial periods are still necessary for the breakthrough technologies. Please find our position attached.
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Meeting with Gints Freimanis (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and Aurubis AG and Verein zur Förderung des Bergmannstages, der Rohstoffinitiative sowie der Aus- und Weiterbildung auf dem Gebiet der Rohstoffe

16 Nov 2021 · Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

Response to Modernising the EU’s batteries legislation

1 Mar 2021

Boliden supports high ambitions for a sustainable transition to build up a strong industry for electric vehicles in the EU and welcomes the new proposed battery regulation. As one of Europe’s largest producer of essential metals for the green transition, Boliden will have an important role in providing the EU market with copper, nickel, zinc, lead, cobalt and other metals with strategic importance for the EU. To create an efficient recycling industry in the EU, with a level playing field, we want to give our recommendations with regard to the European Commission Proposed EU Batteries Regulation, detailed in the attached document.
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Response to Climate change mitigation and adaptation taxonomy

17 Dec 2020

Boliden Response Draft delegated regulation Sustainable finance, Taxonomy For the European Commission to succeed with its goal to transform Europe to the world´s first climate-neutral continent, extensive reduction of fossil fuel consumption and a strong increase in base metals production are required. More copper, zinc, nickel and other base metals are needed in order to change and develop industry, the transport sector and to increase fossil free energy production. Today, Europe produces only a small amount of the metals that are consumed within Europe and is therefore relient on import of metals from other countries, including those with lower environmental standards and climate performance. Boliden support the European Commission´s strive towards climate neutrality by 2050, and our company has set an ambitious goal to reduce CO2-emissions by 40% (compared to 2012) by 2030. Our goal is to provide the metals essential to improve society for generations to come with consideration to people, the environment and the society. Our vision is to be the most climate friendly and respected metal provider in the world, and today, the climate impact of Boliden´s value chain is already significantly lower than the global average for our industry. We are also involved in traceability projects to be able to show the origin of metals, their carbon footprint and the admixture of recycled electronic scrap in our products. According to the Nomenclature of Economic Activities (NACE), Boliden´s primary concentrate production is classified under NACE code 0729 (non-ferrous metal ore). Since Boliden holds a leading position in sustainable mining, metal production and metals recycling in Europe and we are partly sorted under NACE-kod 0729, we welcome the addition of our sector to the Taxonomy system. However the mining industry is a very capital intensive industry and therefore we would like to emphasize the importance that the requirements which are formulated enable investments both in existing and new mining operations. The mining and metals industry is global. Prices are set on a global market and are influenced mainly by economic growth rates and expectations of supply and demand. The mining and metals industry is thereby unable to pass on extra costs to customers. The criteria being developed within the Taxonomy framework must therefore take into consideration the affect on internal raw material supply within Europe as well as how they will affect competitiveness amongst primary and secondary raw material producers. The mining industry is at the same time an electricity intensive industry, which is highly likely to increase further due to elimination of fossil fuels. Therefore, access to fossil-free energy at competitive prices is a key for the industry to be competitive on a global market. Boliden therefore emphasizes the importance of considering fossil free electricity and biofuels as sustainable. Thus, the criteria for electricity produced from hydropower and nuclear power as well as the criteria for forestry and biofuels are important for the mining industry. About Boliden Boliden is a metals company with a focus on sustainable development. Our roots are Nordic, our market global. Our core competence lies within the fields of exploration, mining, smelting and metal recycling. Boliden has around 6,000 employees and an annual turnover of SEK 50 billion. Shares are listed in the Large Cap segment on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. Contact: Ann Allen, Manager Public Affairs, ann.allen@boliden.com +46 70 520 35 25
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Response to Updating the EU Emissions Trading System

26 Nov 2020

Boliden consider EU ETS to be the key tool for addressing the reduction of CO2-emissions and protect the competitiveness of the energy intensive industries. We believe that an adequate indirect compensation scheme and free allocation are the optimal way to protect our sector from carbon and investment leakage. Therefore we would like to change the current system as little as possible. Any amendment to EU ETS or any of its’ subsequent acts, should complement the current system, not change, or replace it. The mining and metals industry is global. Prices are set on a global market and are influenced mainly by economic growth rates and expectations of supply and demand. The European raw materials sector enables the transformation of Europe into a low carbon society and electrification is the key. Boliden’s operations run on a high degree of fossil-free electricity. Due to the marginal cost pricing of electricity, European industry still pays the same price as electricity generated from coal, natural gas and oil, even if the electricity is fossil free. Our industry is unable to pass on these extra costs to our customers and are exposed to a significant risk of direct and indirect carbon leakage. The mining and metals industry is currently under transformation towards fossil-free production. However, reducing the industry´s CO2-emissions is no quick fix; major technological breakthroughs and large investments over time are needed in order to succeed. Therefore, our industry needs clear and consistent legislation to be able to make the large investments that will be required. We are worried that the planned expansion of the EU ETS system to road transport, buildings and the maritime sectors, expected in June 2021, will reduce the number of allowances available to businesses. These sectors have considerably higher carbon abatement costs than the EU ETS, and thus would likely considerably drive up the EU ETS price. If so, the extension of the EU ETS could result in closure of European operations and increased carbon leakage. This means that a lack of an effective carbon leakage protection system undermines international competitiveness of the industry through further loss of market share and profit margins to competitors who do not face similar costs. In this context, sufficient free allocation according to needs must continue to be provided to the industry. If the EU ETS should be extended to other sectors we believe that separate carbon pricing schemes for these new sectors would be a more suitable solution. About Boliden Boliden is a metals company with a focus on sustainable development. Our roots are Nordic, our market global. Our core competence lies within the fields of exploration, mining, smelting and metal recycling. Boliden has around 6,000 employees and an annual turnover of SEK 50 billion. Shares are listed in the Large Cap segment on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. Contact: Ann Allen, Manager Public Affairs, ann.allen@boliden.com +46 70 520 35 25
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Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

18 Jun 2020 · Impacts of COVID-19

Response to 8th Amendment to Annex II to Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of life vehicles

13 Apr 2017

Boliden Bergsöe som är en del av Boliden koncernen anser att det är mycket viktigt med en fortsatt förlängning/dispens med minst 5 år för användning av blybatterier till och inom fordonsindustrin. Vi stöder det bilagda dokument med de ställningstaganden som tagits fram av ACEA, JAMA, KAMA, EUROBAT and ILA. Transparency register nummer nedan gäller för Boliden koncernen som vi tillhör.
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