Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) and amending Directive 2003/87/EC, Regulations (EU) 2021/1058, (EU) 2021/1056, (EU) 2021/1057, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) 2021/1060, (EU) 2021/523, (EU) 2021/695, (EU) 2021/697 and (EU) 2021/241

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction 3
• 1. STEP objectives 4
• 1.1. Supporting the development or manufacturing of critical technologies throughout the Union, or safeguarding and strengthening their respective value chains 4
• 1.1.1 Supporting the development or manufacturing of critical technologies throughout the Union 4
• 1.1.2 Safeguarding and strengthening value chains 5
• 1.2. Addressing shortages of labour and skills 6
• 2. STEP technology sectors 7
• 2.1 Digital technologies and deep tech innovation 8
• 2.1.1 Digital technologies 8
• 2.1.2 Deep tech innovation 10
• 2.2 Clean and resource efficient technologies 10
• 2.3 Biotechnologies 13
• 3. STEP conditions 14
• 3.1 Innovative, emerging, and cutting-edge element, and significant economic potential 15
• 3.2 Reducing or preventing strategic dependencies 15
• 3.3 Relation with the Net Zero Industry Act and the Critical Raw Materials Act 18
• 3.4 Important project of common European interest (IPCEI) 18