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  "event": {
    "id": "evt-eu-crma-strategic-projects-2026-10",
    "date": "2026-10-09",
    "jurisdiction": "eu",
    "issuingBody": "European Commission",
    "titleOriginal": "Commission Decision of 9.10.2026 recognising certain critical raw material projects as Strategic Projects under Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 of the European Parliament and of the Council",
    "titleOriginalLang": "en",
    "titleEn": "Commission Decision recognising 46 critical raw material projects in the EU as Strategic Projects under the Critical Raw Materials Act",
    "titleEnSource": "na",
    "documentNumber": "C(2026) 8051 final",
    "policyStatus": "unclear",
    "mechanism": [
      "supply_chain_security"
    ],
    "affectedMaterialIds": [
      "rare-earth-elements",
      "gallium",
      "germanium",
      "graphite",
      "lithium",
      "cobalt",
      "nickel",
      "tungsten"
    ],
    "affectedSectors": [
      "battery",
      "defense"
    ],
    "summary": "The Commission's second list of Strategic Projects in the EU under Regulation (EU) 2024/1252, adopted under Article 7(9) after the second call cut-off of 15 January 2026. The Decision records 101 applications from projects in Member States, 98 of them complete, and recognises the 46 projects in its annex. Twenty-six of the 46 name at least one material SMPT tracks and are recorded as designations: four rare-earth projects for magnets (BREES, HyProMag GmbH, Silmet 2.0, Sokli), one gallium project (GaRefine), one germanium project, three naming tungsten, and battery-material projects naming lithium, graphite, cobalt or nickel. The other 20 name only copper, aluminium, magnesium, titanium, silicon or platinum group metals and are not coded. Recognition is not funding; no amount is recorded.",
    "analyticalSignificance": "The second list of Strategic Projects in the EU; recognition, not money, and any funding that follows is a separate decision. For rare earths it adds an extraction project (Sokli), a processing project in Estonia (Silmet 2.0) and two recycling projects for rare earth elements for magnets (BREES, HyProMag GmbH) to the five rare-earth projects on the first EU list of March 2025. Status is coded unclear: the Decision is addressed to the project promoters (Article 2), and the sources read do not establish when it was notified to them or took effect; the two 2025 lists are coded in force, a coding difference rather than a legal finding. The date recorded is the date of adoption, 9 October 2026; the Decision was published in the Official Journal on 22 October 2026 as Commission Decision (EU) 2026/2349. Cross-round comparison of lithium is limited: four March 2025 designations list battery-grade lithium without coding it as lithium, while this list codes it as lithium.",
    "supersededByEventId": null,
    "sourceIds": [
      "src-ec-crma-sp-decision-2026-10",
      "src-ec-crma-sp-annex-2026-10",
      "src-ec-rep-lu-2026-10-09",
      "src-eurlex-dec-2026-2349"
    ],
    "verificationStatus": "verified",
    "intakeMode": "backfill",
    "lifecycle": {
      "officialPublicationDate": "2026-10-22",
      "discoveredAt": "2026-11-03",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-11-03",
      "publishedAt": null
    }
  },
  "framing": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-ec-crma-sp-decision-2026-10",
      "title": "Commission Decision of 9.10.2026 recognising certain critical raw material projects as Strategic Projects under Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 (C(2026) 8051 final)",
      "publisher": "European Commission",
      "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/document/download/56f5457c-2ed0-4c10-8c76-d66a79cb00b6_en?filename=C_2026_8051_F1_COMMISSION_DECISION_EN_V2_P1_5091203.PDF",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": null,
      "dateAccessed": "2026-11-03",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "The decision itself, read in full 2026-11-03 (file sha256 f0768137c98466c0fe53f79c241bf7d97cf7f358a2aeb9b3332bd07ddf677342). Adopted under Article 7(9) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1252. Article 1: \"The projects listed in the Annex are recognised as Strategic Projects.\" Article 2 addresses the decision to each promoter with its address; those addresses are the source for promoters' countries. Recital (4): 101 applications from projects in Member States, 98 complete. Only the English text is authentic. The document states it was adopted on 9 October 2026; when this PDF was first posted online is not established, so datePublished is left unknown. The Decision was later published in the Official Journal as Commission Decision (EU) 2026/2349 (OJ L, 22.10.2026); notification and effective dates are not established."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-ec-crma-sp-annex-2026-10",
      "title": "Annex to Commission Decision C(2026) 8051 final: list of Strategic Projects",
      "publisher": "European Commission",
      "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/document/download/efabd887-9c12-4a3d-910e-8433c0f63a81_en?filename=C_2026_8051_F1_ANNEX_EN_V3_P1_5091583.PDF",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": null,
      "dateAccessed": "2026-11-03",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "The list of 46 Strategic Projects in the EU, read in full 2026-11-03 (file sha256 2d927a5fbbb05dddcec4eaf4dae80180a3d9a0d0e901801cc794d04bda140ce3). Each entry gives the project name, type, country, promoter and materials. Only projects naming a tracked material are recorded as designations. The document states it was adopted on 9 October 2026; when this PDF was first posted online is not established, so datePublished is left unknown. The Decision was later published in the Official Journal as Commission Decision (EU) 2026/2349 (OJ L, 22.10.2026); notification and effective dates are not established."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-ec-rep-lu-2026-10-09",
      "title": "Commission selects 46 new Strategic Projects to bolster the EU's supply of critical raw materials",
      "publisher": "European Commission, Representation in Luxembourg",
      "url": "https://luxembourg.representation.ec.europa.eu/actualites-et-evenements/actualites/commission-selects-46-new-strategic-projects-bolster-eus-supply-critical-raw-materials-2026-10-09_en",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2026-10-09",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-11-03",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "secondary",
      "notes": "Commission news article, read 2026-11-03. States 46 projects in 16 Member States, selected from 102 applications of which 92 were assessed; 8 extraction, 11 processing, 19 recycling and 8 integrated. Its 102 differs from the Decision's recital (4) figure of 101; the Decision is preferred. Its benchmark-coverage and financing statements are Commission claims and are not recorded as capital. IP/26/2113 is the press-corner original and has not been read."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-eurlex-dec-2026-2349",
      "title": "Commission Decision (EU) 2026/2349 of 9 October 2026 recognising certain critical raw material projects as Strategic Projects under Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 (notified under document C(2026) 8051)",
      "publisher": "Official Journal of the European Union (EUR-Lex)",
      "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2026/2349/oj",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2026-10-22",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-11-03",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "The Official Journal publication of the Decision (OJ L, 2026/2349, 22.10.2026; ELI http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2026/2349/oj; CELEX 32026D2349), read in full on EUR-Lex 2026-11-03. It states that only the English text is authentic. Adopted 9 October 2026 under Article 7(9) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1252; Article 1 recognises the 46 projects listed in the Annex as Strategic Projects, and Article 2 addresses the Decision to their promoters. Recital (4): 101 applications, 98 complete. datePublished is the Official Journal date. The text does not state when the Decision was notified or took effect; the EUR-Lex catalogue metadata gives 2026-10-22 as the first date of entry into force, which is not a statement of the Decision itself and is not used as the effective date. The Commission's C(2026) 8051 final PDFs are separate source records and keep their own version-specific details."
    }
  ]
}