Andriy Ursta, General Manager of Market Development at DiXi Group, participated in a webinar dedicated to our country’s potential in the CRM sector and the prospects for relevant Ukrainian-European cooperation. The event was organized by the Forum Energii and the Green Deal Ukraїna.
The Draft Strategy, developed by the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine with DiXi Group’s support, aims to build an EU-compatible, rules-based industrial ecosystem for integration into global value chains. This involves a systemic transformation encompassing both extraction, processing, and intermediate production.
“The Strategy recognizes a key reality: mineral potential alone isn’t enough to attract investment. Investors need predictability, transparency and institutional capacity to support investment projects, so many of the most important commitments outlined in the Draft Strategy are actually governance and regulatory reforms”, DiXi Group’s General Manager for the Energy Markets Development points out.
The expert identified the following ones:
- creating open digital geological databases, 3D geological models, and internationally verified reserve assessments, removing excessive secrecy restrictions around geological data;
- introducing a single contact point for permitting, implementing sustainability and circularity requirements, and creating mechanisms for facilitating off-take agreements, improving administrative procedures’ online accessibility;
- introducing tax incentives compatible with EU state aid and BEPS rules, expanding war-risk insurance mechanisms;
- developing industrial clusters and Net-Zero Valleys for integration into European clean-tech supply chains;
- building a regulatory framework for mining waste management, tailings recycling, and recovery of critical materials from waste streams.
Andriy Ursta named the most urgent priorities we should be guided by together with European partners this year. Geological transparency and access to data are crucial for international financing. The implementation of Regulation (EU) No. 2024/1252 establishing a framework for secure and sustainable supply of CRM (CRM Act) will contribute to institutional compatibility with the EU market. Developing a functioning governance architecture for the sector and investment de-risking instruments is also important.
“The Operational Plan for 2026–2028 suggests a very clear sequencing logic: first build transparency, governance, permitting reform, and investment protection; then launch pilot industrial ecosystems and strategic partnerships; and only afterwards move toward large-scale downstream manufacturing and full integration into European clean-tech value chains,” our think tank’s General Manager summarized.
