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The draft law also enables common purchasing to boost the bloc's negotiating power, and would mark a clear expansion of the EU's powers to intervene directly in industrial supply chains.
Amid tensions between Beijing and Washington, there are growing fears in Europe that semiconductors can become a tool of economic coercion, heightened by European reliance on Taiwan for high-performance chips.
The clearest example of Europe's heavy hand was laid bare last year when the Dutch government took control of chipmaker Nexperia from its Chinese owner over concerns that it was moving production and assets out of Europe. The flow of chips from Nexperia's China arm slowed dramatically, forcing some European car companies to reduce production.
The draft law, which is still subject to change ahead of its expected publication next week, would allow the European Commission far-reaching powers in the event of semiconductor shortages that threaten supplies of weapons, medical devices, digital infrastructure and other key categories of goods. In such a crisis, the Commission could impose fines of up to €300,000 on companies that fail to provide requested information on their supply-chain capacity. It could also "force semiconductor manufacturers to prioritize orders for crisis-critical products, overriding existing contracts", the draft reads.
Brussels could also enable common purchasing to "strengthen negotiating power and prevent competition between EU countries for limited supplies". The Commission would then act as a central buyer for multiple EU countries, as it did to acquire vaccines during the pandemic.
According to the FT, the so-called Chips Act forms part of a wider push from the bloc to reduce its dependence on US technology by backing European alternatives in sectors from semiconductors and cloud computing to AI. In the document, Brussels acknowledges that the bloc is "almost entirely dependent on the US and Asia" for the most advanced chips.