Joan CANTON

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• “So, as you know, on Cbam, we are working on this on the review of of the legislation, um, in particular to address issues related to, uh, risk of circumvention. The question of exports, the question of, um, downstream competition and so on and so forth. And more generally, there is indeed a question of, uh, global overcapacity, a level playing field at international level, and the fact that, uh, many of our competitors, if not all, are taking drastic measures that do have an implication on the competitiveness of our Of our European industry for domestic and export markets. And the question is then how to mobilize as best as possible our trade defence instruments. Another important issue related to this, but it's the question of circularity and the question of dependencies. So I heard the debates on the, you know, replacing one dependency or at least removing our dependency on Russian gas. But the challenge also is not to create new dependencies on Chinese raw materials on other countries technologies. So, um, there are key considerations as part of the clean industrial deal on these matters, in particular for anything related to raw materials, where we will have the opportunity to support a number of strategic projects, um, that we will announce in the in the coming weeks, but also to work on the circularity and making sure that these essential raw materials that enter the European market get a chance to stay in the European market and be And be recycled and reused so as to improve the environment and decrease our dependencies at the same time.”
  Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) · Circular economy · Sourcing of critical raw materials
• “To achieve this, I think, I mean, I didn't count the time, but of course a significant, significant share of the discussions was devoted to energy costs. It is a central issue when it comes to energy intensive industries and the way to approach energy costs is, uh, has multiple elements. Prices are a determinant, obviously, but also the energy efficiency and also the access to the necessary infrastructure and access to the necessary quantity of energy. And it is by working on all these different dimensions, by promoting longer term contracts such as power purchase agreements or carbon for differences. So more stability in the prices by working on access to infrastructure, by ensuring that we deal with the, um, increase expected increase in infrastructure costs, because we will need to bring and build the power lines from the new production center to the new consumption center of electricity. Uh, all these dimensions are absolutely essential to look into, as well as any possible market manipulations for some, uh, commodities and some prices that also need to be to, to be addressed. And we know what happened with with gas prices in particular in the recent past. Beyond energy costs, I think the question of global level playing field, ensuring that our carbon leakage protection instruments, such as the carbon border adjustment mechanism, are effective remains a central topic for for this commission.”
  Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) · EU approach to electricity market and prices · Energy efficiency
• “Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you for the invitation. Thank you to the rapporteur and the shadow rapporteurs for the presentation of this draft resolution. We very much look forward to the to the final resolution. Obviously, thank you as well for all the MEPs for a very rich exchange and a very good inputs and suggestions formulated. A few remarks on our side. As you know, the Commission is finalising the preparation of the Clean Industrial Lead and the Affordable Energy Action Plan for next week. What I see from the draft resolution and the discussions is that there is broad agreement on the key issues that we need to address. They are also broad agreement on the objective, and I will recall the objectives, at least from from the Commission's perspective. The objectives are really clear that we need to work on a twin competitiveness and decarbonisation agenda in a sense that we cannot achieve our climate objectives if our energy intensive industries are not more, are and not more competitive. And at the same time, we also know that for them to remain competitive in the long term, they also need to engage in this transformation. So the objective of the clean industrial deal and of the initiatives of the Commission are related to maintaining and increasing industrial production in Europe through decarbonisation. Um, and in order to achieve that, then we need to make sure that the conditions are right and that the competitiveness of European energy intensive industries in all their diversity, because they do diverge quite a lot depending on the sector and depending on the region, can compete in a level playing field and engage in these final investment decisions for decarbonisation.”
  Carbon leakage support
• “There's also questions related to lead markets. We've discussed this. There's the question of methodologies. There's the question of making sure that we don't create, that we provide the right incentives without creating administrative burden monsters, because it can be a challenge. But the intentions of the commission are really clear on this in terms of resilience and sustainability criteria for some key technologies. And the question of funding is also absolutely relevant with the debate and the question on how to mobilize as best as possible, the existing funds, the cohesion funds step, the remaining RF funds, anything that can still be used for the benefit Investeu for the benefit of energy intensive industries should be mobilized, including by working with financial institutions such as the European Investment Bank. And then there is the question of possible new new initiatives, new ideas through the Competitiveness Fund or others. Last but not least, skills and the social dimension. We are working on this because of the workers in these sectors, because we want to protect and support jobs and growth in these sectors. Quality jobs. Well skilled and reskilled upskilled workers so that we have a chance to to continue to provide good quality jobs in industry for European citizens and workers across the union. I'll leave it at that. Thank you very much.”
  State Aid · EU policy on sustainability criteria in public funding