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BREES (Best Rare Earth Element Separation)

France

prj-fr-brees

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What does the record establish?

The annex calls BREES a recycling project; its name (Best Rare Earth Element Separation) says separation. Stages follow the annex type, so only recycling is coded. Adding separation from the project name would match the 2025 Pulawy record; that is a reviewer decision (stage rule).

Financial standing

No directly attributable financial instrument is recorded. A commitment, a payment and a project cost remain separate.

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Legal and policy context

1 parent policy records; 1 project designations. Designation confers standing, not finance. Material and stage overlaps with controls do not establish a restriction on this project.

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Industrial evidence

No source-reviewed project milestone is published in this corpus. Financing records may still contain attributed activity reports; this gap does not establish inactivity.

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Financial evidence and chronology

Each instrument keeps its own financial history. These dates describe financial states, not construction or production. Amounts are the current recorded terms, not historical amounts at every date below.

No directly attributable financial instruments are recorded. Shared packages, if any, appear separately below.

Capital stack

One layer per value role. Only committed public money, and joint-vehicle money apart from it, is summed, per currency; everything else is listed. There is no total across layers.

No financial row is attributable to this project yet.

Source-reviewed industrial observations

No source-reviewed project milestone is published for this undertaking. Any financing-row activity reports below remain attributed observations, not independently reviewed project milestones. Missing evidence does not establish inactivity.

Policy context

These records directly parent the project's finance or designation entries. Their presence does not establish a causal effect on industrial activity.

Designations

Recognition under a scheme confers standing, not money, and is never counted as capital.

Recognized

9 Oct 2026

BREES (Best Rare Earth Element Separation)

Strategic Projects under the Critical Raw Materials Act · C(2026) 8051 final

FR · Recycling

Control clauses on the same materials and stages

Clauses whose covered items share a material and a supply-chain stage with this project, with their legal status on 3 Nov 2026. An overlap of items, not a finding that the project is affected.

CNExport licensing · Item 1 (2B902)MOFCOM & GACC Announcement [2025] No. 56RecyclingSuspendedCNExport licensing · Item 1(2) (1E902.b)MOFCOM Announcement No. 62 (2025)RecyclingSuspendedCNExport licensing · Item 1(1) (1E902.a)MOFCOM Announcement No. 62 (2025)RecyclingSuspendedCNExtraterritorial licensing · Item 1(2)MOFCOM Announcement No. 61 (2025)RecyclingSuspended

Record

Sponsors
Rhodia OperationsCompany
Location
FranceFR
Stages
Recycling
Materials
Rare earth elements (grouped)Tracked materials only
Programmes
None recorded
Latest financing-row activity report
No physical status recorded

What remains unknown

Gaps describe the available SMPT record. They do not establish that an activity did not occur.

  • No project-native source-reviewed industrial milestone is published. Attributed activity in financing histories remains a separate evidence class; no exact milestone date or facility-wide conclusion is inferred.
  • Structural links and shared materials do not demonstrate that a government measure caused an industrial outcome.

Evidence

Every project fact names the source that states it.

  1. Annex to Commission Decision C(2026) 8051 final: list of Strategic Projects

    European Commission

    Fields supported
    Name · Location · Materials · Supply-chain stages
    Evidence level
    Explicit
    Location in document
    Entry (7)
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  2. Commission Decision of 9.10.2026 recognising certain critical raw material projects as Strategic Projects under Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 (C(2026) 8051 final)

    European Commission

    Fields supported
    Sponsors
    Evidence level
    Explicit
    Location in document
    Article 2, row 7
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