The European Steel Processors Association (ESPA) welcomes the European Commissions Regulation establishing a framework of measures for the acceleration of industrial capacity and decarbonisation in strategic sectors: the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA).
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European Steel Processors Association
Industry association · Belgium · EU Transparency Register 450344351784-66
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Among the 1518 trade and business associations on this site, they rank #516 by legislative files engaged, a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
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- Trade and business associations
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- Brussels, Belgium
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
European Steel Processors Association filed 8 positions between 18 Aug 2025 and 12 Jun 2026, across 6 of the 665 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 6 times.
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What they argued
The European Steel Processors Association (ESPA) welcomes the EUs efforts to strengthen the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) as a key tool to prevent carbon leakage and support the decarbonisation of the steel sector. ESPA supports extending CBAM to downstream products to address carbon leakage risks across the value chain and advocates for robust anti-circumvention measures to ensure effectiveness.
ESPA supports the objective of avoiding double carbon pricing on the same embedded emissions. Ensuring that genuine, mandatory and effectively paid carbon prices are recognised is essential to CBAMs environmental credibility and its proportionality as a climate measure.
Article 9(4) empowers the Commission to define rules for recognising foreign carbon prices. For ESPA, this provision is not a matter of trade defence, but an essential element to ensure that the CBAM remains an environmental instrument aimed at delivering a fair carbon cost signal.
Article 7(7) requires embedded emissions to be calculated according to harmonised rules; Article 9(4) demands that benchmarks used for adjustments mirror ETS; Article 10(2) ensures uniformity of conditions. These provisions form a legal obligation: CBAM cannot diverge from ETS logic. Actual values and defaults ESPA strongly supports that actual values, verified under ETS-consistent MRV systems, remain the rule.
The European Steel Processors Association (ESPA) welcomes the Commissions proposal to address the negative trade effects of global overcapacity on the EU steel market. With current safeguards expiring in 2026 and ongoing global trade disruptions, the EU requires a new, proportionate, and effective trade mechanism.
The European Steel Processors Association (ESPA) appreciates the opportunity to provide input on the European Commissions upcoming steel measures, and highlights that it is essential to ensure that the new mechanism effectively addresses global overcapacity while supporting the competitiveness of the entire EU steel value chain.
Article 31(2) requires CBAM adjustments to mirror ETS allocation rules and to decline linearly with the ETS phase-out (20262034). Key principle: Transparency: Article 30(6) requires monitoring and reporting; benchmarks and datasets must be public and regularly revised.
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