Join every day information updates from CleanTechnica on e mail. Or observe us on Google Information!
Yesterday, the EU and the Republic of Serbia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) launching a Strategic Partnership on sustainable uncooked supplies, battery worth chains and electrical automobiles.
The Partnership goals to help the event of recent native industries and high-quality jobs alongside the electrical car worth chain in full respect of excessive environmental and social requirements whereas addressing the issues of native communities with full transparency.
The Partnership additionally offers the framework for a powerful public-private multi-level engagement between the EU establishments and our bodies, industrial actors, enterprise associations, social companions, representatives of civil society, related ministries of Member States and Serbia, public organisations, monetary establishments, and traders.
Govt Vice-President for the European Inexperienced Deal, Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight of the European Fee, Maroš Šefčovič, signed the MoU with the Minister of Mining and Power of the Republic of Serbia, Dubravka Đedovič Handanović. The signing ceremony befell throughout the Excessive-Stage Summit on crucial uncooked supplies in Belgrade.
The Partnership builds on the Stabilisation and Affiliation Settlement (‘SAA’) entered into pressure on 1 September 2013 and is consistent with EU’s New Development plan for the Western Balkans. It represents a constructing bloc in advancing Serbia’s integration inside the EU’s single market, and additional boosting its financial, social and environmental convergence with the EU.
5 Areas of Cooperation
This MoU, in accordance with the SAA, establishes shut cooperation between Serbia and the EU within the following 5 areas:
- Improve the event of worth chains for uncooked supplies, batteries and EVs, by facilitating shut cooperation between EU and Serbian industrial actors and stakeholders. The MoU will encourage the event of a mutually helpful pipeline of tasks with particular give attention to the EV industrial ecosystem.
- Cooperation on analysis and innovation (R&I), by mapping the present cooperation areas underneath EU Horizon Europe R&I framework programme and different schemes. On the idea of the MoU, each events will share information and applied sciences associated to sustainable exploration, extraction, processing and recycling of secondary uncooked supplies.
- Software of excessive environmental, social and governance requirements and practices can be facilitated by mutual session and change of data on related insurance policies and initiatives alongside the complete worth chains, together with by the appliance of elevated due diligence and traceability for the battery worth chain.
- Mobilisation of monetary and funding devices to help funding tasks underneath the Partnership, notably by Make investments EU, the Western Balkans Funding Framework and a Single Undertaking Pipeline in Serbia in addition to underneath the European Uncooked Supplies Alliance and European Battery Alliance.
- Creating obligatory expertise for high-quality jobs in uncooked supplies and battery sectors. This consists of participation of Serbian organisations in European Battery and upcoming Uncooked Supplies Academies, together with attainable Serbian contribution with devoted programmes and internships.
Subsequent Steps
Following the signature of the MoU, the EU and the Republic of Serbia will collectively develop inside six months a roadmap with concrete actions to place the Strategic Partnership into follow.
Background
The EU has a well-established and rising marketplace for inexperienced applied sciences, like batteries, that provides many alternatives for offtake agreements, joint ventures and joint R&I tasks. The Partnership will help creating sustainable provide chains between each side and allow furthering environmental, social and governance requirements and change of data on uncooked supplies.
With crucial uncooked supplies being an important prerequisite for delivering on the inexperienced and digital transitions, the Fee has began to construct a sequence of Partnerships on uncooked supplies, following the Motion Plan on Important Uncooked Supplies and the Important Uncooked Supplies Act. Such agreements have been signed with Canada and Ukraine in 2021, with Kazakhstan and Namibia in 2022, with Argentina, Chile, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Greenland in 2023, and with Rwanda, Norway, Uzbekistan and Australia in 2024.
The Important Uncooked Supplies Act goals to make sure the EU’s safe and sustainable provide of crucial uncooked supplies. The Act helps the event of tasks contributing to construct strategic uncooked supplies capacities throughout all worth chain phases, each inside and out of doors of the EU.
For Extra Data
European Fee on Strategic Partnerships on Uncooked Supplies
“The Memorandum of Understanding between the EU and Serbia on sustainable uncooked supplies, battery worth chains, and electrical automobiles is a testomony to our shared dedication to driving ahead the inexperienced transition. Via strategic collaboration in these key sectors, we unlock immense potential for sustainable progress and innovation, whereas additionally enhancing Serbia’s integration with the EU’s single market and additional boosting its financial, social and environmental convergence with the EU.” —Maroš Šefčovič, Govt Vice-President for European Inexperienced Deal, Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight
“The signature of the Memorandum of Understanding between the EU and Serbia on sustainable uncooked supplies, battery worth chains, and electrical automobiles lays an essential basis for Serbia’s deepened integration into EU’s inexperienced expertise provide chains, supporting the important thing goals of the EU’s New Development Plan for the Western Balkans. Our cooperation will create new job alternatives in industrial sectors which might be essential for the long run, have added worth in creating processing and battery manufacturing, and have substantial financial advantages. It additionally reaffirms Serbia’s EU path. Based mostly on shared values, the EU perspective presents to remodel societies and economies in a complete and sustainable strategy to construct long-term prosperity and resilience.” —Olivér Várhelyi, Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement
Courtesy of European Fee.
Have a tip for CleanTechnica? Need to promote? Need to counsel a visitor for our CleanTech Speak podcast? Contact us right here.
Newest CleanTechnica.TV Movies
CleanTechnica makes use of affiliate hyperlinks. See our coverage right here.
CleanTechnica’s Remark Coverage