Draw up and review a national exploration programme covering mineral mapping, geochemical campaigns, geoscientific surveys and reprocessing of existing survey data.

By 24 May 2025, each Member State shall draw up a national programme for general exploration targeted at critical raw materials and carrier minerals of critical raw materials. Those national programmes shall be reviewed at least every five years and updated if necessary. 2. The national programmes referred to in paragraph 1 shall include measures to increase available information on the Union’s critical raw material occurrences. They shall include, as appropriate, the following measures: (a) mineral mapping at a suitable scale; (b) geochemical campaigns, including to establish the chemical compositions of soils, sediments or rocks; (c) geoscientific surveys, such as geophysical surveys; (d) processing of the data gathered through general exploration, including through the development of predictive maps; (e) reprocessing of existing geoscientific survey data to check for unidentified mineral occurrences containing critical raw materials and carrier minerals of critical raw materials.