A five-year planning strategy called the Plan ressources pour la France (Resources for France Plan) aims to define and lessen the dependency on natural resources for production and growth.
The Loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte (Energy transition for green growth law), a national framework strategy for 2015, incorporates the policy. Additionally, it is an endeavor to control and promote a circular economy. Minerals are one of the natural resources covered in the Resources for France plan. Despite not being a large producer of essential minerals, France has recognized since the 2010s that its needs are growing due to the energy transition and the digitalization. The strategy includes essential minerals because France is heavily dependent on imports.
The Comité pour les métaux stratégiques (COMES) and the Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (BRGM) are tasked with doing a more thorough mapping of the requirements for essential minerals in relation to the energy transition.

The strategy also emphasizes recycling as a viable production technique for industrialized nations like France. It urges further investigation into secondary mineral resources.
The proposal also suggests incorporating sustainability standards into the chain of production for vital minerals. Reusing and recycling are viewed as an alternate method to guarantee a local, sustainable supply. The strategy does, however, draw attention to the necessity of a European initiative on social and environmental standards for mining.
The circular economy is supported by policy in part thanks to this five-year strategy. It takes into account the social and environmental effects of key minerals in addition to their economic and security repercussions. This strategy is being developed simultaneously at the national and regional levels; some of the goals outlined in the Resources for France plan are also included in the European Commission's adopted 2020 Circular Economy Action Plan. On December 10, 2020, a proposal for regulating of batteries and their minerals was made.