President von der Leyen announced the Critical Raw Materials Act during her 2022 State of the Union speech, where she called to address the EU's dependency on imported critical raw materials by diversifying and securing a domestic and sustainable supply of critical raw materials What will the Act mean for the mining industry? Issues discussed include: • What are governments willing to do to secure critical raw materials? offtakes? Investment, and if so, how? Specialist funds? Directly? Sovereign support? • What do the EU Critical Raw Materials Act and Green Industrial Plan mean for the mining industry? How does it compare to the US Inflation Reduction Act? • Achieving circularity in the raw materials value chain • Current status of the European battery value chain • Implementation and impact of the EU Battery Directive • New European Battery Alliance targets, opportunities, and challenges @minesandmoney2023
