# Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA)

Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials and amending Regulations (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1724 and (EU) 2019/1020

- Status: Amendments pending
- Legal order: European Union
- Legal area: Raw materials, mining and supply chain
- OJ L 2024/1252, 3.05.2024
- Business profile: Mining, Smelting, Semi-fabrication, Recycling, Product manufacturers

## In brief

Framework for the security of supply of strategic and critical raw materials – inter alia copper, bauxite/alumina/aluminium, nickel and cobalt (Annex I): strategic projects, monitoring of supply chains, preparedness of large companies, recovery from extractive waste.

## Key obligations

- Application by the project promoter for recognition of an extraction, processing or recycling project as strategic – with a permitting schedule and a plan for public acceptance (Arts 6 and 7)
- Permit-granting process for strategic projects: max. 27 months (extraction) and 15 months (processing or recycling only) (Art. 11(1))
- Large companies identified by the Member State: risk assessment of the strategic raw materials supply chain at least every 3 years (Art. 24(1) and (2))
- Operators of extractive waste facilities: study of the potential for recovery of critical raw materials by 24.11.2026 (Art. 27(1) and (3))
- Persons placing on the market products incorporating permanent magnets > 0.2 kg: public information on the share of recycled Nd, Dy, Pr, Tb, B, Sm, Ni, Co (Art. 29(1))
- Member States: national circularity programmes – collection and treatment of waste, including scrap, with potential for recovery of critical raw materials (Art. 26(1))

## Competent authority

European Commission (recognition of strategic projects, monitoring); in PL the national authorities and the national single point of contact are to be designated in the draft Act on ensuring the national economy’s access to raw materials (UC83, applicant: Minister of Climate and Environment)

## Penalties

Member States lay down rules on penalties by 24.11.2026 – effective, proportionate and dissuasive (Art. 47); in PL penalty provisions in draft UC83.

## Entry into force

23.05.2024

## Application

from 2024-05-23; Arts 40 and 41 (compliance and market surveillance – permanent magnets) from 2028-05-24 (Art. 49(2))

## Key dates

- 23.05.2024: entry into force of the Regulation
- 24.05.2025: deadline for the identification of large companies by Member States (Art. 24(1))
- 24.11.2026: deadline for the study on the recovery of critical raw materials from extractive waste (Art. 27(3))
- 24.05.2027: earliest date for the publication of information on recycled content in permanent magnets (Art. 29(1))
- 24.05.2029: application of Arts 40 and 41; deadline for the evaluation of the Regulation by the Commission (Art. 48(1))

## Pending changes

Proposal COM(2025) 946, procedure 2025/0385(COD) – amendment to the CRMA (RESourceEU package): identification of large companies by the Commission (Art. 24), mandatory vulnerability-reduction measures, broader recycling (pre-consumer waste, magnets). Council (Coreper) mandate – 4.03.2026; the EP adopted amendments on 20.10.2026 (T10-0343/2026) and referred the matter for interinstitutional negotiations. In PL: draft Act on ensuring the national economy’s access to raw materials, including critical raw materials (UC83) – stage of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers (last modified 22.10.2026).

## Related acts

- [Geological and Mining Law](https://igmnir.org/dane/prawo/en/pl-pgg/)
- [Tax on the extraction of certain minerals (copper, silver)](https://igmnir.org/dane/prawo/en/pl-podatek-kopaliny/)
- [Batteries Regulation](https://igmnir.org/dane/prawo/en/eu-baterie/)
- [End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation (ELVR)](https://igmnir.org/dane/prawo/en/eu-elv/)
- [Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)](https://igmnir.org/dane/prawo/en/eu-espr/)
- [Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) – proposal](https://igmnir.org/dane/prawo/en/eu-iaa/)

## Official sources

- [Text of the act](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1252/oj/pol)
- [European Parliament – OEIL, procedure 2025/0385(COD)](https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2025/0385(COD))
- [Council of the EU – doc. 6997/26, mandate for negotiations with the EP (4.03.2026)](https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-6997-2026-INIT/en/pdf)
- [RCL – draft Act on ensuring the national economy’s access to raw materials, including critical raw materials (UC83)](https://legislacja.gov.pl/projekt/12401805)

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Register as of: 22.10.2026. The official text of the act prevails. IGMNiR. On the website: https://igmnir.org/en/law/#akt-eu-crma