Critical Raw Materials Act.
The EU law securing sustainable and diversified supply of critical raw materials essential for the green and digital transitions.
What is CRMA?
The CRMA (Regulation 2024/1252) establishes a framework to ensure secure and sustainable EU access to critical raw materials. It sets benchmarks for domestic EU capacity in extraction, processing, and recycling, identifies strategic raw materials, and introduces supply chain due diligence and audit requirements for companies that use strategic raw materials.
Who does it apply to?
Companies that use strategic raw materials — including lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, graphite, rare earth elements, and others — particularly in sectors such as batteries, electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels, and semiconductors. Large companies using strategic raw materials above certain thresholds must conduct supply chain audits.
Key requirements
Large companies using strategic raw materials must carry out and disclose supply chain due diligence audits. Member States must establish national programmes for strategic raw material projects. The EU must achieve benchmarks of 10% extraction, 40% processing, and 25% recycling of annual consumption of strategic raw materials by 2030.