EU Steel and Metals Action Plan - Related links

European Commission & Joint Research Centre

Communications

• Steel and Metals Action Plan – European Commission Communication (19 March 2025)
• Action plan on Steel and metals – European Commission Factsheet (19 March 2025) [Q&A here]
• Commission's Action Plan to secure a competitive and decarbonised steel and metals industry in Europe – European Commission Press release (19 March 2025)
• European Defence Readiness 2030 – European Commission Communication (19 March 2025)
• The Clean Industrial Deal – European Commission Communication (26 February 2025)
• Action Plan for Affordable energy – European Commission Communication (26 February 2025)
• A Competitiveness Compass for the EU – European Commission Communication (29 January 2025) 
• Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market for Europe’s recovery – European Commission Communication (5 May 2021)

Infopages

• President von der Leyen launces Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the Steel sector – European Commission press release (4 March 2025)
• A new plan for Europe's sustainable prosperity and competitiveness – European Commission priorities info page (2024)
• Clean Industrial Deal – European Commission factsheet (26 February 2025)
• Strategic dependencies and capacities – European Commission info page (5 May 2021)

Reports

• Transition Pathway for the European Metals Sectors – DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (December 2024)
• The future of European competitiveness: Report by Mario Draghi (9 September 2024)
• Much More than a Market – Enrico Letta's Report on the Future of the Single Market (17 April 2024)
• Scaling up innovative technologies for climate neutrality : mapping of EU demonstration projects in energy-intensive industries – DG for Research and Innovation (2023)
• Climate-neutral steelmaking in Europe: decarbonisation pathways, investment needs, policy conditions and recommendations – European Research Executive Agency (2022)
• ERA industrial technology roadmap for low-carbon technologies in energy-intensive industries – DG for Research and Innovation (2022)
• Strategic dependencies and capacities – European Commission Report accompanying the Communication on Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy (5 May 2021)
• Clean Steel : Steel is vital to the EU's economy – DG for Research and Innovation (2020)
• Steel and coal: A new perspective – DG for Research and Innovation (2019)
• Masterplan for a competitive transformation of EU energy-intensive industries enabling a climate-neutral, circular economy by 2050 – DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (2019)

Joint Research Centre

• Technologies to decarbonize the EU steel industry – JRC Report (2022) [summary here]
• Greenhouse gas intensities of the EU steel industry and its trading partners – JRC Report (2022)

European Parliament and Council of the European Union

Legislation and Resolutions

• Establishing a framework of measures for strengthening Europe's net zero technology manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act) – Regulation EU 2024/1735 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 [briefing here – March 2024

Additional Articles, Studies and Reports

• The Future of European Steel: Urgent Action needed to secure jobs and Industry – IndustriAll News (4 March 2025)
• Strategic Dialogue on Steel is a positive step forward for the European steel sector – EUROFER News and Position (4 March 2025)
• Breakthrough technologies – World Steel Association
• The Clean Steel Partnership – ESTP EU Web page
• Obstacles to the greening of energy-intensive industries – European Central Bank (September 2024)
• Competitiveness of European Energy-Intensive Industries – ERT Report (2024)
• A European Steel Action Plan – IndustriAll and EUROFER (2024)
• The EU Steel Industry on the carbon border adjustment mechanism – EUROFER (16 September 2021)

European Committee of the Regions

Opinions

• CDR-1726-2016: Steel: Preserving sustainable jobs and growth in Europe ; Rapporteur: Isolde Ries (2016)