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Among the 47 strategic projects for strengthening the capacity of strategic critical raw materials of the European Union, there is no "Jadar" project, nor any other project from Serbia
European Commission (EC) adopted on Tuesday the first 47 strategic projects for strengthening the capacity of strategic critical raw materials, all of which are located in member countries European Union (EU) and were selected among 122 applicants to a public call published last summer.
There is none among them. "Jadar" project, nor any other project from Serbia. The selected projects, published on the EC website, refer to 14 critical raw materials such as lithium, aluminum, magnesium, cobalt, boron and nickel, manganese, graphite and tungsten.
The new strategic projects mark an important milestone in the implementation of the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), which aims to ensure that European extraction, processing and recycling of strategic raw materials meet EU demands by 2030. The goal is for extraction to meet 10 percent, processing 40 percent, and recycling 25 percent of EU demand by 2030.
Contribution to the EU supply of strategic raw materials
In May 2024, the European Commission announced a call for applications for strategic projects, and the first 47 approved were located in EU member states (Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Estonia, Czech Republic, Greece, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Poland and Romania).
Those projects were selected because they contribute to the supply of strategic raw materials to the EU, comply with environmental, social and management criteria and are technically feasible. They also have a clear cross-border benefit for the EU.
SEOS: There will be no lithium mines
The Union of Environmental Organizations of Serbia (SEOS) previously informed the European Commission in a letter that Rio Tinto had nominated the "controversial and controversial" project "Jadar", which refers to the exploitation and processing of lithium in western Serbia, and that "whatever the European Commission decides" in relation to that project, "there will be no mines in the Jadra valley".
"It will not exist because it is disastrous and harmful in many aspects for the citizens of Serbia," announced SEOS.
The Environmental Alliance expressed the hope that reason will prevail and that Europe will not selfishly look only at its own interest at the expense of others.
"We hope that Europe will not destroy the foundations of what it is based on, especially at a time when the people of Serbia are fighting for European values, and against crime and corruption. We are waiting for the test of maturity of the old lady of Europe," says SEOS in the letter.
After the publication of EU priority projects without Serbian lithium, SEOS happily announced that reason prevailed in the EC.
Source: FoNet
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