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Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières

BRGM

Promouvoir la recherche et l'exploitation des ressources du sous-sol à l'exception des hydrocarbures et, à cet effet, exécuter ou faire exécuter des travaux de recherches géologiques ou minières, entreprendre tous travaux accessoires utiles à la réalisation de son objet.

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Response to European Critical Raw Materials Act

25 Nov 2022

Considering its long-standing involvement in this domain and the critical role of strategic minerals for the Energy Transition, BRGM welcomes the EU initiative of establishing a Critical Raw Materials Act. As a Research and Technology Organisation, the BRGM has the relevant skills to support the European commission and Europes raw materials industry to identify, characterize, produce and recycle raw materials using innovative and sustainable solutions and foster a deeper strategic awareness on the role of raw materials in the energy and digital transition. BRGM will support any initiative allowing increasing the funding in this domain and targeting a more sustainable mining sector and the development of the circular economy. (See attached file). The Critical Raw Materials Act could support these ambitions: 1. By Supporting member states to improve knowledge of their national CRM potential (primary and secondary resources), in particular through ambitious programs of acquisition of new data and valorisation of existing data. 2. By encouraging member states to provide stakeholders with this harmonized information at EU level following recognized international standards (such as UNFC system). 3. By supporting research activities and technologies aiming at minimizing the carbon footprint as well as the environmental and social impacts of extraction, mineral processing and refining technologies and by encouraging maximum recovery of all commodities contained in ores or wastes. 4. By forstering innovation and allow groundbreaking developments on CRM adapted to the European context through refocusing Horizon Europe program on more precompetitive R&D (TRL 3-5) and less on too early technological developments (TRL 6-8) that could be supported by industrial initiatives (EIT-RM, ERMA). 5. By Promoting the development of European expertise in mineral resources, by promoting a better integration of geosciences and raw materials in childhood education programmes and by a strong support to high level geoscientific education. 6. By promoting and funding actions of R&D partnerships with like-minded countries outside the EU across the entire mining cycle (from exploration and metallogeny to remediation and recycling).
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