Understanding the RESourceEU CRM Financing Hub

The next online event is framed around the European Commission’s adoption of the RESourceEU Action Plan (3 December 2025) and what it practically changes for Europe’s rare earth permanent magnet value chain. The event will unpack how the Action Plan - building on the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) - seeks to shield European industry from geopolitical and price shocks while accelerating domestic projects in recycling and manufacturing.

A central focus will be the circularity aspects related to permanent magnets: today, end-of-life collection rates remain limited and rare earth recycling in the EU is still very low, creating a “leakage” problem where valuable magnet scrap and end-of-life products leave the EU, remain unused, and very often not valorised. Against this backdrop, the session will explore how improved feedstock access and incentives could enable EU recyclers and emerging manufacturing initiatives to scale, and what that implies for competitiveness and resilience.

The webinar will cover the proposed CRMA amendment presented by the European Commission in December 2025 in the context of RESourceEU to expand permanent magnet labelling requirements (to better support recyclers), and the shift towards recognising both pre- and post-consumer waste in recycled-content declarations - an important near-term lever given that manufacturing scrap is typically cleaner and easier to recycle. A key policy development to be discussed is the Commission’s intention, announced under RESourceEU, to propose restrictions on exports of permanent magnet scrap and waste by Q2 2026, alongside work on developing EU-level subcodes under the Combined Nomenclature and the European Waste Catalogue to better identify and monitor flows - paired with stronger enforcement against illicit exports.

The objective is to:

• Clarify how different EU instruments can support strategic CRM and battery value chain projects
• Help project developers understand which EU tools are relevant at which stage of project maturity
• Provide better visibility on how strategic priorities (including Resource EU) are reflected in financing and de-risking mechanisms
• Strengthen alignment between EU policy objectives and the pipeline of industrial projects