Details
- Publication date
- 10 January 2025
- Author
- Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support
- Related department
- Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support
- Country
- Austria
- Funding Programme
- Year
- 2022
- Final deliverable
Description
Both Austria and the EU face critical dependencies on imported raw materials vital for strategic sectors like renewable energy, digital technologies, and defence. The lack of detailed knowledge about raw material transformation and recycling along the value chain poses challenges for ensuring a secure supply.
To address this problem, a roadmap for a comprehensive raw material balance is developed. This roadmap, part of the Master Plan Raw Materials 2030, aims to establish strategies, data collection methods, and action plans for creating a comprehensive raw material balance. It seeks to integrate primary and secondary resource flows and stocks to support sustainable resource management. The roadmap focuses on identifying data sources, addressing data gaps, ensuring data confidentiality, and presenting scenarios for predicting supply bottlenecks. Additionally, it outlines legal, technical, and administrative measures necessary for improving data quality and transparency.
The goal is to create a cross-stakeholder planning tool and establish a national resource accounting department to facilitate routine implementation of these strategies.
