04 Mar 2026
Commission proposes Industrial Accelerator Act to strengthen industry
On 4 March 2025, the European Commission adopted a legislative proposal to increase demand for low-carbon, European-made technologies and products. The EC expects the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) to boost manufacturing, grow businesses, and create jobs in the EU, while supporting industry's adoption of cleaner, future-ready technologies.
The aim of the IAA is to
- Strengthen the EU’s industrial leadership in strategic sectors, against the backdrop of global competition and increasing dependencies on non-EU suppliers;
- Preserve and create around 150,000 jobs in key industrial sectors ;
- Accelerate industrial decarbonisation investments through low-carbon and Made in EU provisions in public schemes and procurement.
In order to reach these goals, the IAA proposes to:
- Use public procurement and public incentives to boost demand for EU clean tech industry and products;
- Ensure foreign investments (>100 million) in batteries, EVs, solar PV, and critical raw materials generate max. added value for the EU economy;
- Use a "One project, one digital" procedure to speed up and ensure a single permit-granting procedure;
- Create Industrial Acceleration Areas with streamlined permitting (area-wide permit and tacit approval) to promote new investments and facilitate decarbonisation.
The IAA had been announced in the Clean Industrial Deal and in last year's Joint Communication on strengthening EU economic security It is in line with the recommendations of the Draghi report by creating EU demand for clean and EU-made products and key technologies through public procurement and support schemes.
The proposed Regulation will be negotiated by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union before its adoption and entry into force.
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