MEP Dan Nica, leader of the PSD Delegation in the European Parliament, says that the new European regulation on the protection of the steel industry will significantly reduce steel imports from outside the European Union, offering real protection to European producers.
"For Romania, this regulation means a significant reduction in steel imports from countries outside the European Union that were unfairly competing with the steel produced in our country. These are measures that will ensure the predictability of steel production in Romania, for the Galati and Otelu Rosu steel plants, the protection of thousands of jobs, as well as the maintenance of Romania's strategic industrial base", declared Dan Nica, as reported by the MEP's Press Office.
The statement was made by Dan Nica in the context of the meeting that the Romanian MEP had on Tuesday with the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Stéphane Séjourné, who presented the new Regulation for the sustainable protection of the EU steel industry.
According to the document, the main proposed measures aim at: reducing steel import quotas from outside the European Union to the level of 2013; applying a 50% tax on imports exceeding these quotas; introducing the "Melt & Pour" rule, which guarantees the complete traceability of the origin of the steel and prevents the circumvention of trade rules through re-exports or intermediate transformations; the possibility of rapid adjustment of quotas, depending on the evolution of the international market.
"As a Romanian MEP and coordinator of the S&D Group in the ITRE Committee, I recently initiated, together with other MEPs, a letter signed by 105 colleagues, following numerous interventions in the European Parliament, in which I requested a new operational trade instrument from January 2026, with tariffs for imports exceeding quotas, maintaining 2013 levels, the 'Melted & Poured' rule and covering all steel products, within a framework compatible with WTO rules", Dan Nica said.
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