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New battery regulation: Europe’s sustainable re-industrialization

The new battery regulation aims to strengthen Europe as a location for the production of rechargeable batteries. Recycling is to make the industry independent of raw material imports, and strict social and environmental requirements are to set standards.

The energy transition, dependence on raw material imports, structural change in the industry, and new mobility concepts. The new battery regulation is something like a melting pot of central challenges for the European Union. Simona Bonafè, Italian S&D MEP and rapporteur of the ENVI Committee, ended the presentation of the key points of the new regulation accordingly emotional: “Can we cover the entire demand for raw materials ourselves? It’s hard to say. However, do we have an alternative? No, we don’t.”

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