The ERCST study on CBAM, co-funded by ACEA, aims to extend the threshold from 2028. For SMEs importing over 50 tonnes, it ...

Five EU proceedings on cold-rolled stainless steel, two speeds: 258 days for an Indian producer, 93 for Eurofer. Brussels ...

EU Waste Shipment Regulation: the Commission is now planning its export ban on metal scrap through the regulatory back door and under a green disguise.

The heavily criticised EU safeguard measure on grain oriented electrical steel, GOES, enters into force - were slab imports ...

21 September 2026 – Brussels cannot levy taxes, so it calls them “own resources”. Now the Commission wants 30 per cent of ETS revenues and 75 per cent of CBAM revenues for the EU budget: around €11 ...

Brussels presents its 2025 record as a success story. Anyone who checks the numbers finds contradictory figures, protection against falling demand and two lost WTO cases that do not appear in the ...

It is worth letting this sink in. The EU has just sealed off its steel market with a new regime. Duty free quotas are being cut by almost half, and anyone supplying above the quota pays a 50 per cent ...

The Commission has been promising “Think Small First” for years. What remains of that? A slogan. The European Parliamentary Research Service counted it: in almost half of the impact assessments ...

The European Commission will soon be asking for feedback again. This time, its Have Your Say consultation concerns implementing rules for harmonised pictograms on packaging and waste containers. What ...

The German Steel Federation published its latest figures for steel production in Germany last week. While the association continues to blame weak demand for low crude steel production, important ...

Stéphane Séjourné presented the Public Procurement Act on 9 September and invited the press to read the impact assessment. According to him, it found “no possible price increase”. That statement could ...

At the end of September 2025, The Hague pledged Tata Steel Nederland up to €2 billion for direct reduction and an electric arc furnace in IJmuiden. By 30 September 2026, this is supposed to become a ...