LRE-BaIntroduction. The most promising materials for superconducting permanent magnets recruit from the LRE-Ba 2 Cu 3 O y family. The typical pinning structure consists of point-like disorder, 'large' particles of non-superconducting secondary phases, and twin structure. Point-like disorder, associated with collective pinning of individual vortices, enhances super-currents at intermediate magnetic fields. The secondary-phase particles, around one micrometer in size, are most effective vortex traps at low magnetic fields. Twin planes represent a specific correlated disorder that has a special effect on the J(B) profile, either reducing height of the secondary peak or filling the dip between the secondary and central peaks. In the present work we summarize recent results obtained on ternary RE-Ba 2 Cu 3 O y compounds, where three different light-rare-earth elements (La, Sm, Nd, Eu, Gd) occupy the rare-earth site.Experimental results. Although technology plays most important role in the recent achievements in this field, we have no space to go into details here. These can be found in [1].It has been verified that mixing together several LRE elements at the rare-earth site of the LRE-123 compounds hinders neither appearance of superconductivity nor the melt texture growth. In most cases such complex compounds behave like a single-LRE 123 material. In any case, the bulk ternary LRE-123 compounds produced by oxygen-control melt-growth method exhibit excellent electromagnetic