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Europe's efforts to ensure supplies of critical minerals needed for its green and digital transitions and to reduce its reliance on China are struggling to gain public acceptance, leading industry officials said on Wednesday. The EU Critical Raw Materials Act, due to enter force next week, sets targets for the bloc to mine, recycle and process minerals including lithium and copper by 2030. Bernd Schaefer, the CEO of EIT RawMaterials, an EU-funded group leading a sector alliance, said in an interview that permitting for mining and recycling were a challenge.