The Clean Industrial Deal is a flagship initiative on the European Commission’s agenda for the 2024-2029 mandate. Designed to address Europe’s competitiveness challenges and ensure the EU’s sustainable prosperity, the Deal focuses on six key levers: Energy security and energy prices, financing, recycling and critical raw materials, labour and skills, lead markets and global action

On all of the above-mentioned issues, measures must be taken to ensure that the flat glass sector remains a competitive supplier of an advanced strategic material for Europe as it continues and intensifies its own efforts to reduce CO₂ emissions. Currently, the flat glass sector is facing serious competitiveness challenges, exacerbated by high energy costs and a significant decline in demand from the construction and automotive sectors. So to steer the Clean Industrial Deal in the right direction and ensure that it pays sufficient attention to all energy-intensive industries, Glass for Europe has formulated recommendations around three main blocks:

• Care for industrial competitiveness to support decarbonisation efforts
• Boost strategic sectors as flat glass manufacturing with support measures
• Give sustainable construction the central role it deserves in a new industrial policy

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