Industry extends_CO2 aid to more than 20 new industrial sectors and strengthens protection against carbon leakage

The amendment incorporates new industrial activities, such as chemicals, glass, ceramics, textiles, wood and batteries, and raises the maximum aid intensity for the sectors already beneficiaries to 80%.
The reform adapts Spanish legislation to the recent update of the European guidelines on state aid linked to the emissions trading system
These measures are in addition to the effort made by the Government to support the electro-intensive industry. In the 2025 call alone, 600 million euros were allocated to offset the indirect costs of CO2.

The Ministry of Industry and Tourism has taken a new step to strengthen the competitiveness of Spanish industry by extending the scope of the mechanism for offsetting the indirect costs of CO2 emissions. The amendment to Royal Decree 309/2022, published today in the Official State Gazette (BOE), incorporates more than twenty new industrial sectors and subsectors into the aid system and improves the support conditions for the activities already included. The reform adapts Spanish legislation to the recent update of the European guidelines on state aid linked to the emissions trading system and responds to the increase in energy costs and the risk of carbon leakage faced by certain industrial sectors exposed to international competition.

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