Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001119/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Susana Solís Pérez (PPE), Letizia Moratti (PPE), Adam Jarubas (PPE), Wouter Beke (PPE), Dolors Montserrat (PPE), François-Xavier Bellamy (PPE)
The state of the steel industry in Europe is critical, and in its current form, the CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) risks exacerbating the situation due to its susceptibility to circumvention and practices such as resource shuffling. These practices allow exporters to direct their cleaner production to the EU while continuing to use more carbon-intensive methods in external markets. This results in competition being distorted and the global reduction of emissions being undermined.
It is crucial that the Commission include urgent measures in the steel and metals industry action plan to prevent EU producers from facing a competitive disadvantage.
- 1.What concrete measures does the Commission intend to adopt to tackle resource shuffling and ensure that the CBAM functions as an effective decarbonisation tool rather than a mechanism that merely redistributes emissions globally?
- 2.Will the Commission address the issue of imports of long direct reduced iron EAF (electric arc furnaces) which, despite being more carbon-intensive than European long scrap-based EAF products, currently face no CBAM obligation?
- 3.In order to prevent high-emissions producers from masking their true footprint by using averages, does the Commission plan to establish default values to promote the disclosure of real emissions, such as communicating the average emission intensity of the 10 % worst performing installations per country?
Submitted: 17.3.2025