Industrial Minerals Association - Europe
Budget
€400 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
8
3 FTE
EU Grants
€299,295
Mission & Goals
The Industrial Minerals Association (IMA–Europe) was founded in December 1993 to provide sector-based representation for industrial minerals and to promote the common interests of its members. Membership IMA-Europe is an umbrella organisation, counting to date 9 European associations specific to individual minerals and representing the producers of calcium carbonate (GCC, PCC) and dolomite (CCA-Europe), bentonite, sepiolite and attapulgite (EUBA), lime (EuLA), borates (EBA), kaolin & plastic clays (KPC-Europe), feldspar and nepheline syenite (EUROFEL), industrial silica - quartz and cristobalite (EUROSIL), talc (EUROTALC), mica, magnesite, diatomite and andalusite (ESMA). IMA-Europe’s current membership is drawn from about 250 companies or groups, employing around 42.000 people and producing 180 million tons/year of industrial minerals for a value exceeding EUR 14 billion in 22 EU Member States, plus UK, Croatia, Norway, (...)
EU Legislative Interests
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), and its numerous amendments. Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, and its numerous amendments COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION C/2024/2894 - Guiding criteria and principles for the essential use concept in EU legislation dealing with chemicals COM(2020) 667 final COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS - Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability:Towards a Toxic-Free Environment Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 of 19 December 2018 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and its amendments Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on cosmetic products and its amendments Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012 of 9 March 2012 laying down specifications for food additives listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council and its amendments DIRECTIVE (EU) 2024/1760 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 13 June 2024 on corporate sustainability due diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 and Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2023/2772 of 31 July 2023 supplementing Directive 2013/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards sustainability reporting standards and its implementation / amendments REGULATION (EU) 2020/852 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 18 June 2020 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment, and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 and its amendments COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION(EU) 2026/665 of 4 March 2026 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2552 as regards the technical specifications of data requirements for the detailed topic industrial production statistics establishing the industrial products classification breakdown Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2025 on the safety of toys and repealing Directive 2009/48/EC COM(2025) 980 final - COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Simplifying for sustainable competitiveness COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION – Framework for State Aid measures to support the Clean Industrial Deal (Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework) C/2025/7600 Communication from the Commission amending the Guidelines on certain State aid measures in the context of the system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading post-2021 C/2025/9298 Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Directives (EU) 2022/2464 and (EU) 2024/1760 as regards the dates from which Member States are to apply certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence COM/2025/0081 Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Directives 2006/43/EC, 2013/34/EU, (EU) 2022/2464 and (EU) 2024/1760 as regards certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements COM(2025) 986 final DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Directives 2008/98/EC, 2010/75/EU, (EU) 2015/2193 and (EU) 2024/1785 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards simplification of some requirements and red
Communication Activities
European Minerals Day: Awareness on the essential uses of minerals https://mineralsdays.eu NEPSI is the acronym for the *European Network for Silica* formed by the Employee and Employer European sectoral associations having signed the Social Dialogue “Agreement on Workers’ Health Protection Through the Good Handling and Use of Crystalline Silica and Products Containing it https://nepsi.eu/
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
REACH Alliance Non-Energy Extractive Industry Panel (NEEIP) Industrial Emission Directive Alliance SPIRE (European Association which is committed to manage and implement the Processes4Planet co-programmed Partnership) https://www.aspire2050.eu/ FAIB (Federation of European and International Associations established in Belgium) https://faib.org
Organisation Members
https://ima-europe.eu/about-ima-europe/sections-members/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.