Position Papers

Position Paper
28.11.2019
Joint Paper - A long-term strategy for Europe’s industrial future: from words to action
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
24.06.2020
CEMBUREAU’s response to the public consultation for the EU climate ambition for 2030
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
07.07.2020
Submission to the Review of the TEN-E Regulation
Position Paper
Environment
20.04.2020
CEMBUREAU’s feedback to the Industrial Emissions EU rules update
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
09.07.2020
EU Renovation Wave
Position Paper
Environment
20.07.2020
CEMBUREAU Feedback on draft delegated regulation amending Shipments of Waste Regulation Annexes III, IIIA, IV, V and VIII
Position Paper
Environment
20.07.2020
CEMBUREAU Feedback on draft implementing regulation 2018-2066 – EU ETS MRR
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
30.06.2020
CEMBUREAU feedback to the European Commission’s inception impact assessment on climate adaptation
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
13.08.2020
CEMBUREAU feedback to Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
12.08.2020
CEMBUREAU's Position on the Future of the CPR
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
31.08.2020
CEMBUREAU feedback to EC Inception impact assessment on a legislative proposal on substantiating green claims
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
01.09.2020
Feedback to the Inception Impact Assessment on Empowering the Consumer
Position Paper
08.09.2020
Feedback on the Commission Delegated Regulation on Taxonomy-Related Disclosures by Undertakings Reporting Non-Financial Information
Position Paper
Environment
31.08.2020
Concrete Recycling
Position Paper
Environment
10.11.2020
CEMBUREAU’s feedback to the EU Action Plan towards a Zero Pollution Ambition for air, water and soil
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
16.11.2020
CEMBUREAU feedback to the European Commission’s inception impact assessment on a sustainable products initiative
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
19.11.2020
Competition policy supporting the Green Deal - CEMBUREAU input
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
19.11.2020
Feedback on the European Commission Inception Impact Assessment for the Amendment of the EU ETS (Directive 2003/87/EC)
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
05.01.2021
Review of the State Aid Guidelines for Environmental Protection and Energy
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
09.12.2020
CEMBUREAU feedback to Commission draft delegated regulation on Mitigation Adaptation technical criteria (EU Taxonomy)
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
01.02.2021
Feedback on the European Commission Public Consultation for the Amendment of the ESR (Regulation EU 2018/842)
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
01.02.2021
Review of the EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
05.02.2021
Recommendations from the Alliance of Energy Intensive Industries on the review of the EU Emissions Trading System
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
02.02.2021
CEMBUREAU feedback to the European Commission’s public consultation on energy from renewable sources (RED II)
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
02.02.2021
CEMBUREAU feedback to the European Commission’s public consultation on energy efficiency Directive
Position Paper
Health & Safety
09.03.2021
Rethinking Europe’s approach to Health & Safety at Work
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
12.04.2021
Joint industry statement: IED & climate change policy options
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
16.04.2021
The new EU Forest Strategy should not hamper efforts to decarbonise European buildings
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
22.06.2021
The EPBD revision: An occasion to unleash the potential of thermal mass for electricity grid flexibility with benefits for the environment and households
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
23.06.2021
Statement on Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms and Fit for 55 package
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
08.07.2021
Energy Intensive Industries’ recommendations to the EU Emission Trading Scheme reform
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
09.08.2021
Harmonised cement standards for the Single Market
Position Paper
Environment
Climate & Energy
07.07.2021
CEMBUREAU's Response to the Draft Climate, Energy & Environment State Aid Guidelines
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
07.10.2021
CEMBUREAU Feedback to the Commission Roadmap on restoring sustainable carbon cycles
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
11.10.2021
Proposal for a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
11.10.2021
Review of the EU Emission Trading Scheme
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
13.06.2022
EU Mineral Industry associations call for keeping mineralogical processes outside the scope of the Energy Taxation Directive
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
17.11.2021
Energy Intensive Industries issue joint position paper on CBAM
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
18.01.2022
Proposal for a revision of the Energy Taxation Directive
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
22.11.2021
Commission document energy-intensive industries ecosystem: scenarios for a transition pathway
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
14.12.2021
The sustainable built environment agenda: contribution from cement and concrete
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
15.12.2021
CEMBUREAU Statement on rising carbon prices and recent EU cement import trends
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
25.01.2022
Joint Statement by energy intensive sectors on CBAM
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
25.02.2022
Renewable Energy Directive (RED III)
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
09.03.2022
Joint Statement of Energy Intensive Industries on energy crisis
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
20.01.2022
Designing a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) that works
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
21.03.2022
A CBAM that works for the European cement industry and workers - Joint Statement
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
02.05.2022
The contribution of the cement and concrete sector to carbon removals
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
19.05.2022
REPowerEU – Reaction from CEMBUREAU
Position Paper
Environment
31.05.2022
EU Nature Restoration Law - joint letter
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
17.06.2022
Draft delegated act on detailed rules for production of renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
17.06.2022
Draft delegated act on greenhouse gas savings from RFNBO
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
12.07.2022
CEMBUREAU position on the new CPR proposal
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
13.09.2022
Energy Intensive Industries Statement on Energy Council of 13 September
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
29.08.2022
CEMBUREAU IED position
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
22.09.2022
RePowerEU cannot come at the expense of carbon leakage protection - Joint Statement
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
28.09.2022
Energy Intensive Industries Statement ahead of the Energy Council of 30 September
Position Paper
Environment
04.10.2022
Joint Position on IED from EU non-energy extractive industry
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
26.10.2022
CBAM sectors statement on ETS and CBAM Trialogues
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
02.03.2023
Draft Delegated Act on Greenhouse Gas savings from RFNBOS & recycled carbon fuels
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
23.11.2022
It is time for a thorough debate on CO2 utilisation
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
05.12.2022
Trilogues on ETS and CBAM – CEMBUREAU statement
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
08.12.2022
Energy Intensive Industries - RePowerEU and Innovation Fund must go hand in hand to stop EU’s de-industrialisation
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
12.01.2023
Time to act: Strengthening the EU’s leadership on green technologies and decarbonising the cement industry
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
01.02.2023
Green Deal Industrial Plan – CEMBUREAU reaction
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
01.02.2023
Energy intensive industries should be at the heart of the Green Deal Industrial plan
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
02.02.2023
Cement belongs to the CPR
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
14.02.2023
TEN-T Regulation: 24 Stakeholders call on TRAN Committee to recognise crucial ship, rail, barge and truck for transporting CO2 to storage
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
15.02.2023
Revision of the EU electricity market design – CEMBUREAU contribution
Position Paper
Environment
23.02.2023
Joint statement from the European non-energy extractive industry on the European Parliament’s Amendments to the Draft Report
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
08.03.2023
A credible and efficient path for carbon removals
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
21.03.2023
Draft Delegated Act on Greenhouse Gas Savings from RFNBOs & Recycled Carbon Fuels - Joint Statement
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
11.04.2023
Joint letter calling for the recognition of Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) as strategic net zero technologies in the EU Net Zero Industry Act
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
11.05.2023
A Comprehensive framework for Carbon Capture investments
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
11.05.2023
Simplifying and speeding up permitting
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
11.05.2023
Energy Intensive Industries - The Net Zero Industry Act requires a full value chain approach
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
23.05.2023
Energy Intensive Industries - The Electricity Market Design reform ensuring European industry’s competitiveness and decarbonisation
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
15.05.2023
Electricity market reform
Position Paper
Environment
13.06.2023
European Nature Restoration Law - an opportunity for a win-win for nature and industry - Joint statement
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
22.06.2023
EU climate target for 2040
Position Paper
Environment
05.07.2023
Cement co-processing is a sustainable solution for recycling end-of-life composite materials - Joint position
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
28.06.2023
Decarbonisation and Whole-Life Carbon Policies: Proposals from the Concrete and Cement Sector
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
28.08.2023
Industrial Carbon Management Strategy - CEMBUREAU recommendations
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
06.09.2023
Trilogues on CPR and ESPR - CEMBUREAU Position
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
04.10.2023
Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) should be recognised as a strategic net zero technology in the EU Net Zero Industry Act - Joint letter
Position Paper
Health & Safety
02.10.2023
Transformation of the workforce
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
16.10.2023
A new momentum for standardisation
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
26.10.2023
Permanence of CO2 storage in products
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
08.11.2023
Joint Letter supporting NZIA chapters on CCS
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
01.12.2023
Energy Intensive Industries welcome the EP vote on NZIA
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
04.12.2023
EMD Reform: Ensuring affordable electricity for European industry’s competitiveness and decarbonisation - AEII joint Statement
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
19.12.2023
Minimising the risks of fraud on CBAM in the cement sector
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
02.01.2024
EU ETS – update of free allocation rules
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
06.02.2024
2040 climate target: Joint statement by the AEII
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
20.02.2024
The Antwerp Declaration for a European Industrial Deal
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
Climate & Energy
05.03.2024
Clinker substitution in the cement industry
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
08.03.2024
Draft EU Commission Guidance on the Free Allocation Regulation (FAR)
Position Paper
27.05.2024
Enabling circular composites starts with waste codes - Joint position
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
Environment
Sustainable Construction
28.05.2024
CEMBUREAU feedback on Commission call for evidence on DNSH
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
17.06.2024
IPCEI mechanism to accelerate carbon capture
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
18.06.2024
Green Deal and Industrial Deal - Joint statement
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
16.07.2024
Draft Delegated Act on permanent emissions storage through carbon capture and utilisation – CEMBUREAU Position
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
26.07.2024
Draft Monitoring and Reporting Regulation (MRR) for the EU ETS - CEMBUREAU position
Position Paper
Environment
25.07.2023
CEMBUREAU’s feedback to the Polluter Pays Principle public consultation
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
25.10.2024
Draft delegated act on the methodology to determine the greenhouse gas emission savings of low-carbon fuels
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
06.11.2024
Ramping up financial support for decarbonisation investments
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
24.10.2024
Clean Industrial Deal – CEMBUREAU recommendations
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
14.11.2024
Creating lead markets for low-carbon cements
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
05.12.2024
A watertight implementation of CBAM – tackling the risks of fraud and circumvention in the cement sector
Position Paper
09.12.2024
Antwerp Dialogue on Industrial Electrification & Competitiveness - Recommendations
Position Paper
Sustainable Construction
23.08.2024
Global Warming Potential for the EPBD: Parameters the Concrete & Cement Sector considers important for the development of GWP methodology
Position Paper
28.11.2019
Masterplan for a competitive transformation of EU energy-intensive industries - Enabling a climate-neutral, circular economy by 2050
Position Paper
13.06.2019
“Construction 2050 - Building tomorrow’s Europe today”: Construction stakeholders call for a new policy framework
Position Paper
03.06.2019
NEEIP Position Paper calling for “A long-term and ambitious EU Raw Materials Strategy”
Position Paper
15.05.2019
2019 MANIFESTO: Let's Continue Building a Carbon-Neutral Europe
Position Paper
08.03.2019
Let’s put industry at the core of the EU’s future! A joint call to the Heads of State and Government
Position Paper
28.11.2018
Call for a joint effort across the value chains - CEMBUREAU reaction paper to the European Commission’s strategic long-term vision “A Clean Planet for all”
Position Paper
26.09.2018
Energy-intensive industries call for an ambitious EU Industrial Strategy to help the industry better contribute to the EU long-term GHG goals
Position Paper
03.07.2018
A Governance Structure for an ambitious EU Industrial Strategy
Position Paper
17.04.2018
Energy efficiency in the cement sector
Position Paper
29.03.2018
Setting indicators for an ambitious EU Industrial Strategy
Position Paper
08.03.2018
Clean Energy negotiations final stretch: How can the final deal secure Energy Intensive Industries’ competitiveness?
Position Paper
21.02.2018
Boosting Europe’s Future Competitiveness as Key Priority for FP9
Position Paper
17.01.2018
CEMBUREAU Position Paper on Plastics Strategy
Position Paper
15.11.2017
How to ensure a simple and effective Smartness Indicator
Position Paper
24.10.2017
Joint Reaction Paper “For an ambitious EU industrial strategy: going further”
Position Paper
11.07.2017
Joint Declaration for an ambitious EU industrial strategy
Position Paper
07.06.2017
An Ambitious FP9 Strengthening Europe’s Industrial Leadership – Joint Declaration by Industry and RTOs
Position Paper
24.05.2017
Joint industry statement on representative EU pollution standards
Position Paper
05.05.2017
No trade-off of Fairness - Recommendations from the Alliance for a fair EU-ETS
Position Paper
17.02.2017
Birds & Habitats Directives: Recomendations for improving their implementation
Position Paper
24.01.2017
EU-ETS: Tiered approach impacts seriously the majority of energy-intensive industries
Position Paper
04.01.2017
Carcinogens & Mutagens at Work Directive: European employers highlight concerns
Position Paper
22.09.2016
EU-ETS Phase IV: cement industry views
Position Paper
03.06.2020
Joint Statement - Demand Response in industry: when industrial flexibility supports competitiveness and climate neutrality
Position Paper
08.05.2020
Building a successful recovery after COVID 19
Position Paper
20.04.2020
CEMBUREAU’s feedback to EC Inception impact assessment EU Taxonomy Climate Mitigation and Adaptation delegated act
Position Paper
15.04.2020
CEMBUREAU’s feedback to the 2030 Climate Target Plan
Position Paper
Environment
30.09.2021
CEMBUREAU’s feedback to the Waste Shipment EU rules revision
Position Paper
31.03.2020
Carbon Border Mechanisms
Position Paper
29.01.2020
CEMBUREAU’s response to the roadmap on the “European Climate Law – achieving Climate Neutrality by 2050”
Position Paper
21.01.2020
CEMBUREAU’s feedback to New Circular Economy Action Plan Roadmap
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
21.09.2020
Feedback to the European Commission's Inception Impact Assessment on RED II
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
20.10.2021
Energy intensive industries urge swift action to tackle unprecedented energy crisis
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
20.04.2022
The war in Ukraine, repower EU and the EU cement industry – taking decisive policy actions in a changing geopolitical context
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
03.10.2022
CBAM and indirect emissions – CEMBUREAU note
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
12.12.2023
NZIA Trilogue - CEMBUREAU Priorities
Position Paper
Climate & Energy
12.12.2023
Union certification framework for carbon removals trilogues