A guided path through EU Critical Raw Materials Act terms for strategic and critical raw materials, supply risk, value chains, extraction, processing, recycling capacity, and project vocabulary.
Critical raw materials work spans material identity, supply risk, value-chain stages, extraction and processing, recycling capacity, projects, offtake, and strategic stocks. This guide keeps those concepts tied to the EU Critical Raw Materials Act instead of turning them into generic mining or manufacturing labels.
Use this guide when a reader is trying to connect raw-material identity, supply risk, operations, capacity, projects, offtake, and supply-chain resilience vocabulary.
Official definitions stay source-specific. Use the links below as a discovery path, then cite the individual term page when referencing a definition, boundary note, or Minespider explanation.
These entries are ordinary crawlable links to public glossary pages, grouped as a practical internal path through the topic.
A CRMA policy category for raw materials with high economic importance and supply risk under the EU assessment framework.
Read term pageA CRMA material category for raw materials with high strategic importance to EU green, digital, defence, and aerospace technologies.
Read term pageThe base material-identity layer in CRMA and product-passport records, before critical, strategic, recycled, or battery-specific classifications are applied.
Read term pageThe CRMA stage map for raw materials, covering exploration, extraction, processing, and recycling rather than the full finished-product value chain.
Read term pageThe CRMA assessment concept used to evaluate vulnerability of EU raw-material supply, distinct from supplier due-diligence or procurement scoring.
Read term pageThe CRMA technology context for key technologies instrumental to green and digital transitions, defence, and aerospace applications.
Read term pageThe CRMA upstream stage where raw materials are removed from their source, before processing or recycling changes the material form.
Read term pageThe CRMA transformation stage where raw materials are made economically usable, distinct from extraction, recycling, metal working, and finished-good manufacturing.
Read term pageA CRMA capacity metric for Union-based recycling operations that produce secondary raw materials from strategic raw-material waste streams.
Read term pageA CRMA project-scope term for planned or significantly extended facilities active in extraction, processing or recycling of critical raw materials.
Read term pageA CRMA contract term for a commitment to buy raw materials from, or financially support production by, a raw material project.
Read term pageA CRMA supply-resilience term for raw material stored by a public or private operator for release during a supply disruption.
Read term pageUse these source pages when the question is about the regulation or legal instrument behind the terms.
Definitions and list-based concepts from the EU Critical Raw Materials Act covering strategic and critical raw materials, supply risk, extraction, processing, recycling capacity, strategic stocks, and project governance.
Official definitions stay source-specific: CRMA terms should not be treated as generic mining, generic manufacturing, or battery-passport terms unless the source relationship is explicit.