Transition pathway for the Chemical Industry, get involved

Transition pathway for the Chemical Industry, get involved SusChem-AT 15. March 2023

Transition pathway for the Chemical Industry, get involved

The next steps of the co-implementation process for the Transition pathway for the Chemical Industry, are now communicated by the EC-DG-Grow, with the opportunity to contribute to the implementation.

Call for applications to join the Working Group on the Chemical Industry: following up on a recent first meeting on the co-implementation of the Transition pathway for the Chemical Industry, the European Commission has set up the Working Group on the Chemical Industry to discuss to the co-implementation of the Transition Pathway.

A call for applications will be launched to join this group. We will keep you informed in due course about the publication of the call.

Please note that the Working Group on the Chemical Industry operates formally as a sub-group the High-Level Expert Group on Energy Intensive Industries. This means that members of the High-Level Expert Group on Energy Intensive Industries are already members of the Working Group on the Chemical Industry and do not need to apply to the call.

Instead, organisations which are not members of the High-Level Expert Group on Energy Intensive Industries will need to apply to the call, if they are interested in joining the Working Group on the Chemical Industry.

Please see the link below for further information.

Register of Commission expert groups and other similar entities (europa.eu)

  • Next co-implementation meeting will be held on 22 June 2023. 

  • Task forces: it was agreed during the meeting to set up three task forces working on specific topics of the transition Pathway, in particular: a) International Competitiveness; b) Anticipate long-term needs for the supply of energy and feedstock resources; c) Circularity: recycling and reuse infrastructure.Each task force will also work on the following horizontal topics: Regulatory predictability, SMEs, KPIs and Skills.

    We are now looking for volunteers to join the task forces. Would you please let us know by Monday, 20 March COB, if you would like to join:
    • The task force on International Competitiveness
    • The task force on Anticipate long-term needs for supply of energy and feedstock resources
    • The task force on Circularity: recycling and reuse infrastructure

We intend to organise the first meetings of the task forces during the second half of April. We will keep you informed in due course about the dates of these meetings.

In case you need further clarification, please contact: GROW-CHEMTP@ec.europa.eu