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Moreover, potential developments regarding EU Commission’s forthcoming FP9 could affect negatively
the EU support to Advanced Materials and other Key Enabling Technologies. This would result in an
impact on European industrial leadership … Europe is not in a position to afford such a development.
IN FIELD OF CLEAN ENERGY & CLEAN MOBILITY TECHNOLOGIES, ANY DETERIORATION IN EU SUPPORT FOR
INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP IN KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS ADVANCED MATERIALS WILL LEAD
UNDOUBTEDLY TO EU NOT DELIVERING ON ITS ENERGY UNION PROMISES:

Europe not generating the much-needed economic growth & jobs for citizens who strongly
supported European transition to clean energy & clean mobility technologies
EU is losing leadership in clean energy & clean mobility techs leading to deindustrialization and job
destruction (net loss of 100.000 jobs in 2013-2016) while China & USA are thriving. Moreover,
without presence in EU of a globally exporting Advanced Materials industry, the job loss would
have been worse (EU-based Advanced Materials industry created 40-50.000 jobs over 2013-2016
while the downstream part of clean energy value chains lost 140-150.000 jobs). Our industry is
actually slowing down EU loss of leadership in clean energy & clean mobility techs and is
undoubtedly the foundation on which EU can regain global market share in the field.
Europe weakening its innovation ecosystem in technologies critical to climate change
mitigation
With China spending more than 2.5 billion euro annually on clean energy & clean mobility
technologies, EU is now challenged. The situation is worsened by fragmentation, unclarity and
instability of European R&I support to its ecosystem. In China, Advanced Materials are among the
10 priorities of “China Manufacturing 2025” … This is not the case in Europe.
Europe replacing dependence on fossil fuels from outside EU by dependence on imported clean
energy & clean mobility technologies
Today more than 50% of industrial players in top 10 of manufacturers of wind turbines, solar
modules, batteries, … are Asian (in most cases Chinese)… Leading to EU representing today less
than 15% of jobs in the field in 2016 (1.16 million jobs) while China is already at 44% (3.65 million jobs).
Without EU action, EU will pass below 1.000.000 jobs in clean energy by 2020 (10% of global jobs in
the field) and market opportunities of fighting climate change will not benefit EU citizens.
WE CALL ON EU COMMISSION, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND MEMBER STATES TO FURTHER SUPPORT
ADVANCED MATERIALS AND OTHER KETS AND SHOW AMBITION IN FP9 TO PRESERVE EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP, RE-INDUSTRIALIZE EU IN CLEAN ENERGY & CLEAN MOBILITY TECHNOLOGIES, DELIVER
ON THE ENERGY UNION PROMISES AND PROVIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES TO CITIZENS.
EMIRI (the Energy Materials Industrial Research Initiative) represents more than 60 organizations (industry, research,
associations) active in Advanced Materials for clean energy & clean mobility technologies. The association contributes
to industrial leadership of developers, producers and key users of Advanced Materials by shaping an appropriate
European innovation, energy and industrial policy framework. For more information, contact Dr Fabrice STASSIN at
fabrice.stassin@emiri.eu, visit www.emiri.eu

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