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"Mr President, in view of the unequal distribution of the world’s resources, raw materials policy is susceptible to monopolisation. This may bring with it unjustified economic or political demands. It is, therefore, essential for the Union’s raw materials resources to be managed independently by the Member States and for exploitation of these resources to be efficient.
The acquisition of primary raw materials requires an outlay of energy: in other words, it is possible to determine an energy equivalent of raw materials which is a measure of the efficiency of their use. Fiscal stimulation of raw materials production should be the domain of the local authorities responsible for water, land and geological structures. Full application of the subsidiarity principle and better use of public funds make it possible to exploit raw materials efficiently.
The Union’s policy of strategic partnership with the Russian Federation is becoming an important factor in making up the shortfall of raw materials of many kinds, not just those needed for energy production. Retrieving secondary raw materials by recycling and the substitution of materials are alternatives of enormous potential and require rational expenditure on research and innovation. A growing trend in EU materials engineering is for raw and processed materials which require heavy expenditures of energy for their production to be substituted more extensively by materials which meet criteria related to their use but which require a lower energy outlay. Examples here are the use of wooden structures in individual construction and high fracture toughness advanced ceramics, which can replace metals in the construction of machines.
The pursuit of an ambitious energy and climate policy is impossible without access to raw materials which can be used for the production of other materials with special physical and chemical properties, such as rare earth metals for super magnets, for example, and also copper, which is a good conductor of heat and electricity."@en1
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