ensure that, by 2030, Union capacities for each strategic raw material have significantly increased so that, overall, Union capacity approaches or reaches the following benchmarks:

diversify the Union’s imports of strategic raw materials with a view to ensuring that, by 2030, the Union’s annual consumption of each strategic raw material at any relevant stage of processing can rely on imports from several third countries or from overseas countries or territories (OCTs) and that no third country accounts for more than 65 % of the Union’s annual consumption of such a strategic raw material.

the project would make a meaningful contribution to the security of the Union’s supply of strategic raw materials;

the project is or will become technically feasible within a reasonable timeframe and the expected production volume of the project can be estimated with a sufficient level of confidence;

the project would be implemented sustainably, in particular as regards the monitoring, prevention and minimisation of environmental impacts, the prevention and minimisation of socially adverse impacts through the use of socially responsible practices including respect for human rights, indigenous peoples and labour rights, in particular in the case of involuntary resettlement, potential for quality job creation and meaningful engagement with local communities and relevant social partners, and the use of transparent business practices with adequate compliance policies to prevent and minimise risks of adverse impacts on the proper functioning of public administration, including corruption and bribery;

for projects in the Union, the establishment, operation or production of the project would have cross-border benefits beyond the Member State concerned, including for downstream sectors;

for projects in third countries that are emerging markets or developing economies, the project would be mutually beneficial for the Union and the third country concerned by adding value in that third country.

relevant evidence related to fulfilment of the criteria laid down in Article 6(1);

a classification of the project according to the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources, supported by appropriate evidence;

a timetable for the implementation of the project, including an overview of the permits required for the project and the status of the corresponding permit-granting process;

a plan containing measures to facilitate public acceptance including, where appropriate, measures to facilitate the meaningful involvement and active participation of affected communities, the establishment of recurrent communication channels with local communities, organisations, including social partners, and relevant authorities, and the implementation of awareness-raising and information campaigns and potential mitigation and compensation mechanisms;

information about the control of the undertakings involved in the project, as defined in Article 3(2) and (3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 ( 3 ), and, where multiple undertakings are involved, information outlining the relative involvement of each undertaking in the project;

a business plan evaluating the financial viability of the project;

an estimate of the project’s potential for quality job creation and the project’s needs in terms of skilled workforce and a work plan to support upskilling and reskilling and promote inclusive representation of the workforce;

for projects in third countries or in OCTs involving extraction, a plan to improve the environmental state of the affected sites after the end of exploitation, with a view to restoring the prior environmental state while taking into account technical and economic feasibility;

for projects related exclusively to processing or recycling located in areas protected pursuant to Directive 92/43/EEC or Directive 2009/147/EC, a description of the technically appropriate alternative locations assessed by the project promoter and why those alternative locations are not considered to be appropriate locations for the project;

for projects with the potential to affect indigenous peoples, a plan containing measures dedicated to a meaningful consultation of the affected indigenous peoples about the prevention and minimisation of the adverse impacts on indigenous rights and, where appropriate, fair compensation for those peoples, as well as measures to address the outcomes of the consultation.

progress in the implementation of the Strategic Project, in particular with regard to the permit-granting process;

where relevant, reasons for delays compared to the timetable referred to in Article 7(1), point (c) and a plan to overcome such delays;

progress in financing the Strategic Project, including information on public financial support.

changes to the Strategic Project affecting its fulfilment of the criteria laid down in Article 6(1);

changes in control of the undertakings involved in the Strategic Project on a lasting basis, compared to the information referred to in Article 7(1), point (e).

27 months for Strategic Projects involving extraction;

15 months for Strategic Projects involving only processing or recycling.

24 months for Strategic Projects involving extraction;

12 months for Strategic Projects involving only processing or recycling.

paragraph 1, point (a), and paragraph 2, point (a), by a maximum of six months;

paragraph 1, point (b), and paragraph 2, point (b), by a maximum of three months.

ensure compliance with applicable administrative and reporting obligations;

further increase the ability of project promoters to ensure the meaningful involvement and active participation of the communities affected by the Strategic Project.

additional private sources of financing;

support through resources from the European Investment Bank Group or other international financial institutions including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development;

existing Member State instruments and programmes, including from export credit agencies, national promotional banks and institutions;

relevant Union funding and financing programmes, with a particular focus on the Global Gateway Initiative for Strategic Projects in third countries or in OCTs.

the volume and quality of strategic raw materials they intend to purchase;

the intended price or price range;

the intended duration of the offtake agreement.

the volume and quality of strategic raw materials for which they are seeking to conclude off-take agreements;

the intended price or price range at which they are willing to sell;

the intended duration of the offtake agreement.

the information referred to in Article 9(2);

the permit-granting process and related administrative processes required for obtaining the relevant permits;

financing and investment services;

funding possibilities at Union or Member State level;

business support services, including but not limited to corporate tax declaration, local tax laws or labour law.

mineral mapping at a suitable scale;

geochemical campaigns, including to establish the chemical compositions of soils, sediments or rocks;

geoscientific surveys, such as geophysical surveys;

processing of the data gathered through general exploration, including through the development of predictive maps;

reprocessing of existing geoscientific survey data to check for unidentified mineral occurrences containing critical raw materials and carrier minerals of critical raw materials.

the potential for cooperation, including on exploration of cross-border mineral occurrences and common geological formations;

best practices related to the measures listed in paragraph 2;

the possibility to create an integrated database for storing the results of the national programmes referred to in paragraph 1.

incentivise technological progress and resource efficiency in order to moderate the expected increase in Union consumption of critical raw materials;

promote waste prevention and increase re-use and repair of products and components with relevant critical raw materials recovery potential;

increase the collection, sorting and processing of waste with relevant critical raw materials recovery potential, including metal scraps, and ensure their introduction into the appropriate recycling system, with a view to maximising the availability and quality of recyclable material as an input to critical raw material recycling facilities;

increase the use of secondary critical raw materials, including through measures such as taking recycled content into account in award criteria related to public procurement or financial incentives for the use of secondary critical raw materials;

increase the technological maturity of recycling technologies for critical raw materials and promote circular design, materials efficiency and substitution of critical raw materials in products and applications, at least by including support actions to that effect under national research and innovation programmes;

ensure that measures are in place to equip their workforce with the skills needed to support circularity of the critical raw materials value chain, including measures on upskilling and reskilling;

where financial contributions are to be paid by the producer in accordance with its extended producer responsibility obligations under national law in accordance with Article 8(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC, promote the modulation of such financial contributions to incentivise a larger share of secondary critical raw materials recovered from waste, recycled in line with relevant Union environmental standards, to be contained in products;

take necessary measures to ensure that critical raw materials that are exported after ceasing to be waste fulfil the relevant conditions in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC and other relevant Union law;

where relevant, support the use of Union quality standards for recycling processes of waste streams containing critical raw materials.

the extractive waste stored in the facility; and

the extractive waste being generated or, where considered more effective, from the extracted volume prior to it becoming waste.

the location, areal extent and waste volume, or where appropriate, the estimated volume, of the extractive waste facility;

the operator or former operator of the extractive waste facility and, where applicable, their legal successor;

the approximate quantities and concentrations of all raw materials contained in the extractive waste and, where available, in the original mineral deposit, in accordance with paragraph 7;

any additional information considered relevant by the Member State to enable the recovery of critical raw materials from the extractive waste facility.

for closed extractive waste facilities, Member States shall, by ►C1  24 November 2025 ◄ , comprehensively review the available permitting files, or other available documentation when permitting files do not exist;

for such extractive waste facilities where available information could indicate the presence of potentially economically recoverable quantities of critical raw materials, Member States shall, by 24 May 2026, also conduct representative geochemical sampling;

for such extractive waste facilities where the activities described under points (a) and (b) of this paragraph have indicated potentially economically recoverable quantities of critical raw materials, Member States shall, by 24 March 2027, also carry out a more detailed sampling with subsequent chemical and mineralogical characterisation involving core logging or equivalent techniques, where this is environmentally sound in accordance with applicable environmental requirements at Union level and with the requirements of Directive 2006/21/EC where relevant.

whether those products incorporate one or more permanent magnets;

if the product incorporates one or more permanent magnets, whether those permanent magnets belong to any of the following types:

the name, registered trade name or registered trademark and the postal address of the natural or legal person responsible and, where available, electronic means of communication where they can be contacted;

information on the weight, location and chemical composition of all individual permanent magnets included in the product, and on the presence and type of magnet coatings, glues and any additives used;

information enabling access and safe removal of all permanent magnets incorporated in the product, at least including the sequence of all removal steps, tools or technologies required for the access and removal of the permanent magnet, without prejudice to the provision of information to treatment facilities pursuant to Article 15(1) of Directive 2012/19/EU.

special purpose vehicles as defined in Article 3, point (31), of Regulation (EU) 2018/858;

parts of a vehicle, other than the base vehicle, that have been type-approved in multi-stage type approval of category N1, N2, N3, M2 or M3;

vehicles produced in small series, as defined in Article 3, point (30), of Regulation (EU) 2018/858.

special purpose vehicles as defined in Article 3, point (31), of Regulation (EU) 2018/858;

parts of a vehicle, other than the base vehicle, that have been type-approved in multi-stage type approval of category N1, N2, N3, M2 or M3;

vehicles produced in small series, as defined in Article 3, point (30), of Regulation (EU) 2018/858.

the stages of the raw materials value chain covered by the scheme;

the stages of the life-cycle of a project, including before, during and after closure, that are covered by the scheme; and

the sustainability dimensions and environmental risk categories listed in Annex IV, point (2) that are addressed by the scheme.

whether and how as well as how effectively the Union’s climate and environmental objectives are already being achieved through other Union legal acts applicable to the critical raw material concerned;

the existence and uptake of relevant international standards and guidelines, or the prospects of agreeing on such standards at international level, as well as sustainable practices on the market, including the voluntary schemes recognised pursuant to Article 30(2);

the effectiveness of Strategic Partnerships, Strategic Projects, trade agreements and other international instruments and outreach conducted by the Union in achieving the Union’s climate and environmental objectives;

the associated economic costs and administrative burden for economic operators.

be based, inter alia, on a consultation of:

ensure that any such measure is not prepared, adopted or applied with a view to or with the effect of creating unnecessary obstacles to international trade and is no more trade-restrictive than necessary to achieve the Union’s climate and environmental objectives, having regard to the ability of third-country suppliers to comply with such a declaration such that aggregate trade flows and critical raw materials costs are not disproportionately affected;

assess whether similar obligations under Union law have produced the intended effects and significantly contributed to the achievement of the Union’s environmental targets;

assess whether the measure would contribute to achieving the Union’s climate and environmental objectives without disproportionately impacting the ability of Union industry to source the critical raw material concerned.

the name, registered trade name or registered trademark and the postal address of the natural or legal person responsible and electronic means of communication where they can be contacted;

information about the critical raw material type for which the declaration applies;

information about the country and region where the critical raw material was extracted, processed, refined and recycled, as applicable;

the environmental footprint of the critical raw material, calculated in accordance with the applicable verification and calculation rules adopted pursuant to paragraph 1;

the environmental footprint performance class that the critical raw material corresponds to, established in accordance with the applicable delegated act adopted pursuant to paragraph 8;

a web link providing access to a public version of the study supporting the environmental footprint declaration results.