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Circular Economy

Closing the loop – An EU Action Plan for the Circular Economy

Circular Economy: an EU priority

Protecting the environment and boosting competitiveness go hand-in-hand: both are about building a sustainable future.

Energy Union and Climate Jobs, Growth and Investment Democratic Change, Better Regulation

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Creating jobs and boosting GDP

Achieve higher levels

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economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10- year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead

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Improving environmental quality for citizens

Increase water-use efficiency to address water scarcity. Reduce pollution, halving the proportion

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untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution Deforestation and desertification – caused by human activities and climate change – pose major challenges to sustainable development and have affected the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in the fight against poverty.

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Promote resource and energy efficiency, sustainable infrastructure, and providing access to basic services, green and decent jobs and a better quality of life for all.

Ensuring responsible consumption and production patterns

Achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment

4 Key areas of action 5 Priority sectors

Construction & Demolition

Production and Products

• Embed circularity in the design of new products

and the materials they are made of

• Deal with current and future materials which are

not circular

Consumption

• Helping consumers and public authorities choose

sustainable products and services

• Providing reliable, standardised and comparable

information to enable optimisation of policy and investment decisions

Waste Management

• Guided by SDG 12, stipulating that by 2020 we

should :

è achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle è significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in

• rder to minimize their adverse impacts on human

health and the environment.

Secondary Raw Materials

• Better understanding of the uses of recycled materials
• Clearer definition of the requirements they have to

meet in order to be reprocessed into secondary raw materials that are

è of comparable quality to virgin materials and è can replace them at a reasonable cost and with the lowest possible use of resources (energy, water, etc.).

Implementation since December 2015…

Revised fertilisers regulation Guidance for water planning Ecodesign Working Plan 2016-2019 BREFs - industrial sectors EMAS – EU Ecolabel Refit False Green Claims – On-line sales of goods Legislative proposals on waste

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EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste Report on critical raw materials and the circular economy Pre-demolition audits Recycling protocol CDW Level(s)- sustainable buildings Contribution EU Bioeconomy Strategy to the circular economy

Pillar I Coordination and Awareness Pillar II Advisory Services Pillar III Financial Instruments

CE Finance Support platform

Supporting the generation and financing

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2017- What's next?

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Monitoring Framework Legislative proposal to promote water reuse Plastics Strategy Interface product-chemical-waste legislation European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform

Plastics Strategy

Objectives

• Reduce plastic leakage in the environment
• Exploit the full potential of plastic recycling and uptake of

recyclates Ø Stimulate research, innovation & investments Ø Take up the international challenge

Interface Product-Chemical and Waste Legislations

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• Insufficient information

about substances of concern

• Presence of substances of

concern in recycled materials

• Uncertainties about how

materials can cease to be waste

• Difficulties in applying EU

waste classification Increase safety, facilitate recycling and improve the trust in secondary raw materials

Monitoring Framework

Assess the progress towards CE in the EU and its MSs

Building

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Resource Efficiency Scoreboard and Raw Material Scoreboard Existing data from Eurostat and in cooperation with EEA

EU-wide minimum requirements for urban waste water reuse for agriculture irrigation

*Encourage efficient, safe and cost-effective water re-use *Increase the recycling of nutrients contained in waste water in agriculture *Contribute to growth and jobs creation by stimulating innovative technologies and water infrastructure

European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform

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Network of networks- Open Platform

Next steps: I. Policy dialogue with stakeholders' input: Ø best practices Ø national, regional, local strategies Ø policy statements and commitments I. Coordination Group for circular economy- related networks-call for expressions of interest- 192 applications II. http://circulareconomy.europa.eu/platform/

More to come in 2018 ?

• Options for a more sustainable Product Policy

Framework

• Follow up to the Product/Organisational

Environmental Footprint

Learn more about the Circular Economy

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/ circular-economy/index_en.htm

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