16. Enabling Activities

Statement on the PSF report with recommendations on technical screening criteria

regarding the defined criteria should always lead to a SC-classification. Furthermore, the criteria should be defined in a way that the outstanding performance of companies in the non-ferrous metals industry in recycling the various metallic secondary input materials is basically assessed as "environmentally sustainable" in the sense of the Taxonomy Regulation.

16. Enabling Activities

36. We welcome the current work of the Sustainable Finance Platform to establish a horizontal framework for so called enabling activities. It would be of utmost importance to include this framework and technical criteria in the upcoming delegated act.

37. Regarding the framework we propose to enhance the definition of “directly enables” so that more than just the immediate upstream activity per target activity can qualify as enabling as long as there is a clear and non-contested link between the enabling activity and the substantial contribution of the target activity. This would support the development of new technologies and creates the opportunity for the enabling activity itself to become Taxonomy aligned.