15th May 2025 |
Open Consultations
Public Consultation and Call for Evidence on the Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act (IDAA)
The Climate Action and Energy Policy Unit would like to draw your attention to a Call for Evidence for an Impact Assessment recently issued by the European Commission regarding the Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act (‘IDAA’). The IDAA is planned to be published in Q4 2025.
Background
The Clean Industrial Deal announces an Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act to address the following challenges:
Create and protect European lead markets for low-carbon products
Identify and promote priority industrial decarbonisation projects
Streamline and speed-up permitting procedures for industrial access to energy and decarbonisation
The initiative will focus on energy-intensive industries (i.e. chemicals, steel, pulp and paper, refineries, cement, non-ferrous metals, glass, and ceramics) and, where relevant, considers related downstream industries (e.g. automotive, construction, housing, clean tech).
The IDAA complements other work in this area such as the Net Zero Industry Act, the EU Emissions Trading System, the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), rules on the energy markets, the Critical Raw Materials Acts, the Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework (CIDSAF), trade defence instruments and plans for proposed Public Procurement Directives in 2026.
Submissions
This is your opportunity to provide your feedback at a point in the process where the Commission can effectively take it into account in finetuning the draft legislation.
The deadline to respond to this Call for Evidence is 8 July 2025.
In addition to providing feedback to the Commission, we request that you send your feedback to this Department climateaction@enterprise.gov.ie to facilitate us in the collation of the feedback and preparation of a national position and identification of Ireland’s key interests and opportunities.
Freedom of Information Act 2014 and publication of submissions
The Department will make public on its website all submissions received under this consultation. Your attention is also drawn to the fact that information provided to the Department may be disclosed in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2014. Therefore, should you consider that any information you provide is commercially sensitive, please identify same, and specify the reason for its sensitivity. The Department will consult with you regarding information identified by you as sensitive before publishing or otherwise disclosing it.
General Data Protection Regulation
Respondents should note that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force in Ireland on 25 May, 2018 and it is intended to give individuals more control over their personal data.
The key principles under the regulation are:
- lawfulness, fairness, and transparency
- purpose limitation
- data minimisation
- accuracy
- storage limitation
- integrity and confidentiality
- accountability
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is subject to the provisions of the regulation in relation to personal data collected by it from 25 May 2018. Any personal information which you volunteer to this department, will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018.
Topics:
EU Directives