One potential PPP - SPIRE (Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency) and the Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) are under preparation, – cooperate internationally in upstream research projects, where appropriate and useful in increasing European competitiveness and market access, – focus financial support more on the up-scaling and piloting phase instead of only focusing on the research phase, – explore, in the context of the EIP on Raw Materials, and in particular its forthcoming strategic implementation plan, all the options to foster innovation in the steel industry along the raw materials value chain, including re ...[+++]cycling.

The EIP on raw materials will tackle the entire value chain of raw materials regardless of whether they are of primary (virgin materials) or secondary (recycled materials) origin and of whether they are hosted on land or on the seabed.

The EU must improve co-operation and information sharing between Member States on raw materials to achieve the critical mass needed to develop closed-loop solutions for material value chains.

Further promoting research and innovation efforts along the entire value chain of raw materials, from extraction, processing, recycling and resource efficiency to substitution.

[7] This does not include the value of raw materials such as oil, gas or fish. [http ...]

When information on prices is not available the free-at-frontier price may be determined exceptionally on the basis of: 1. the value of the raw materials contained in the pilot product in question calculated on the basis of the prices of milk products for which prices are available,