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What changed between the resolution motion joint and the adopted text

From · resolution motion joint· 9 Jul 2025

RC-10-2025-0324

on tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions

To · adopted text· 10 Jul 2025

TA-10-2025-0166

Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

AI:What changed, in short

The versions differ only in formal points: a spacing correction around a percentage sign.1

0 changes of substance · 1 formal · 0 of wording only

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Changes to the text itself, in document order. Cover page, citations and punctuation-only edits are left out; they are under “Every difference”.

Changes of substance · 0

None: the changes are formal or of wording only.

1 formal change: legal basis, citations, references, corrections

Change 1 Formal

AI summary:Fixes spacing around the percentage sign in the figure 98%.

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Changed:D. whereas the EU’s dependence on China for critical raw materials has continued to grow or, at best, remains stubbornly high; whereas the global REE supply chain is heavily concentrated in China, which has control of around 75 % of mining output and of 85 % of processing capacity, reaching more than 95 % in the case of some REEs such as terbium, yttrium and dysprosium; whereas the EU remains overly reliant on non-EU countries for the supply of critical raw materials (CRMs) and is almost entirely dependent on China for the supply of heavy REEs; whereas the EU covers 98%98 % of its demand for permanent magnets, and 92 % of its demand for NdFeB magnets, with imports from China;