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The signatories call on the European Parliament and Council to ensure an effective and broad extension of the CBAM to relevant steel and aluminium intensive downstream industries.
The new Waste Shipment Regulation entered into force on 20 May 2024, with most of its provisions—including critical operational requirements—set to apply from 21 May 2026.
The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has called on EU lawmakers to urgently adopt the new steel trade measure proposed by the European Commission last year, warning that weakening the proposal would put the European steel industry at risk.
Brussels, 6 May 2026 - Europe’s steel industry has warned that the EU’s proposed Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) risks undermining its industrial and climate ambitions, unless it ensures that demand for low-carbon steel prioritises production within the EU.
Paris, 24 April 2026 - Seventy-five years after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the European steel industry met today with the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné to mark this historic milestone, take stock of Europe’s industrial journey and look at the challenges ahead.
Brussels, 14 April 2026 – Europe’s steel industry has welcomed the conclusion of EU negotiations on a new trade measure for steel, calling it an unprecedented response that will protect European steel capacity, safeguard more than 230,000 jobs and stabilise a sector pushed to the brink by record imports and global overcapacity.
EUROFER strongly supports the Act’s objective of creating lead markets for low-carbon steel as a critical tool to unlock the massive investments needed for the green transition of the European steel industry and facilitate the market uptake of low-carbon steel.
First quarter 2026 report. Data up to, and including, third quarter 2025
Energy-intensive industries (EIIs) provide direct employment to around 2.6 million people in the EU and represent the foundations of critical and strategic value chains for the EU economy and society. The current economic and energy outlook of the European Union is making investments in electrification and the continued business operation of our sectors at serious risk, should the energy-cost challenge not be solved.
EUROFER strongly supports the Act’s objective of creating lead markets for low-carbon steel as a critical tool to unlock the massive investments needed for the green transition of the European steel industry and facilitate the market uptake of low-carbon steel.
Energy-intensive industries (EIIs) provide direct employment to around 2.6 million people in the EU and represent the foundations of critical and strategic value chains for the EU economy and society. The current economic and energy outlook of the European Union is making investments in electrification and the continued business operation of our sectors at serious risk, should the energy-cost challenge not be solved.
Joint Industry Statement