{
  "event": {
    "id": "evt-eu-crma-strategic-projects-2025-06",
    "date": "2025-06-04",
    "jurisdiction": "eu",
    "issuingBody": "European Commission",
    "titleOriginal": "Commission Decision of 4.6.2025 recognising certain critical raw material projects located in third countries and in overseas countries or territories as Strategic Projects under Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 of the European Parliament and of the Council",
    "titleOriginalLang": "en",
    "titleEn": "Commission Decision recognising 13 critical raw material projects in third countries and overseas countries or territories as Strategic Projects under the Critical Raw Materials Act",
    "titleEnSource": "na",
    "documentNumber": "C(2025) 3491 final",
    "policyStatus": "in_force",
    "mechanism": [
      "supply_chain_security"
    ],
    "affectedMaterialIds": [
      "rare-earth-elements",
      "graphite",
      "tungsten"
    ],
    "affectedSectors": [
      "battery",
      "defense",
      "energy"
    ],
    "summary": "The first list of Strategic Projects outside the EU: 13 projects in Brazil, Canada, Greenland, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Malawi, New Caledonia, Norway, Serbia, South Africa, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and Zambia, each approved by the third country or overseas territory concerned. Seven name a tracked material: four graphite extraction projects (Ukraine, Madagascar, Kazakhstan, and an integrated Norway–Greenland project), two rare-earth extraction projects for magnets (Songwe Hill in Malawi and Zandkopsdrift in South Africa) and one tungsten extraction project, Tungsten West at the Hemerdon mine in Devon. The Commission estimates the 13 projects need €5.5 billion of capital to start operations; that is project cost and is not recorded as capital.",
    "analyticalSignificance": "Extends EU recognition to projects the Union does not host, with the host government's consent. One of them, the Hemerdon tungsten mine, is also backed by the UK's National Wealth Fund in this corpus, so a single project carries both another government's capital and an EU designation.",
    "supersededByEventId": null,
    "sourceIds": [
      "src-ec-crma-sp-decision-2025-06",
      "src-ec-crma-sp-annex-2025-06",
      "src-ec-ip-25-1419"
    ],
    "verificationStatus": "verified",
    "intakeMode": "backfill",
    "lifecycle": {
      "officialPublicationDate": "2025-06-04",
      "discoveredAt": null,
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-23",
      "publishedAt": null
    }
  },
  "framing": [
    {
      "id": "fc-eu-crma-sp-2025-06-economic-security",
      "eventId": "evt-eu-crma-strategic-projects-2025-06",
      "actor": "eu",
      "category": [
        "economic_security",
        "supply_chain_resilience"
      ],
      "quoteOriginal": "The Strategic Projects will diversify the EU's sources of supply and increase economic security.",
      "quoteEn": "The Strategic Projects will diversify the EU's sources of supply and increase economic security.",
      "quoteEnSource": "na",
      "sourceId": "src-ec-ip-25-1419",
      "notes": "From the Commission's press release on the first list of Strategic Projects outside the EU."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-ec-crma-sp-decision-2025-06",
      "title": "Commission Decision of 4.6.2025 recognising certain critical raw material projects located in third countries and in overseas countries or territories as Strategic Projects under Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 (C(2025) 3491 final)",
      "publisher": "European Commission",
      "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/document/download/808502c2-21c7-4ca8-855f-ff0b528f91c4_en?filename=C_2025_3491_1_EN_ACT_part1_v4.pdf",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-06-04",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-09-23",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "The decision itself, read in full 2026-09-23. Article 1 recognises the annexed projects as Strategic Projects; recital (10) states that each received the explicit approval of the third country or OCT concerned; Article 2 lists promoters with addresses (Tungsten West PLC: \"Hemerdon Mine (Drakelands), PL7 5BS, Devon, United Kingdom\")."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-ec-crma-sp-annex-2025-06",
      "title": "Annex to Commission Decision C(2025) 3491 final: list of Strategic Projects in third countries and overseas countries or territories",
      "publisher": "European Commission",
      "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/document/download/60c576a5-435e-43e6-83de-c81f3652259b_en?filename=C_2025_3491_1_EN_annexe_acte_autonome_part1_v3.pdf",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-06-04",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-09-23",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "The list of 13 Strategic Projects outside the EU, read in full 2026-09-23. Only projects naming a tracked material are recorded as designations."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-ec-ip-25-1419",
      "title": "Commission selects 13 Strategic Projects in third countries to secure access to raw materials and to support local value creation (IP/25/1419)",
      "publisher": "European Commission",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1419",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-06-04",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-09-23",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Press release, read in full through the press corner's document API on 2026-09-23. States that the projects \"will diversify the EU's sources of supply and increase economic security\" and estimates \"an overall capital investment of €5.5 billion\" for the 13 projects, which is project cost and is not recorded as capital."
    }
  ]
}