1. EU Action plan for a Circular Economy
Marine & Water Directors
9 June 2016, Amsterdam
EU Action plan for
a Circular Economy
European Commission
DG Environment
Marine Environment and Water Industry Unit

2. Concept
From a linear …
To a circular
economy

3. Climate Job creation Why is it needed? Access to raw materials
Environment
Climate
Access to raw materials
Job creation
Societal pressures
Competitiveness & reindustrialization
Why is it needed?

4. Growth of the World Economy
Resources
1950
2010
2050
Growth of the World Economy

5. EU Dependency 159 237 434 181 195 1300 European Union (EU-28)
Rest of the world (ROW)
EU-28 exports (2014)
159
237
434
EU-28 imports (2014)
181
195
1300
Biomass
Manufactures (finished manufactured products)
Fuels and mining products  (fossil energy, metal ores and non-metallic minerals)
Total trade EU-28 to ROW
In 2004: 455 million tonnes
In 2014: 640 million tonnes
Total trade ROW to EU-28
In 2004: 1664 million tonnes
In 2014: 1534 million tonnes
Source:

6. Leakages Low levels of recycling-High levels of landfilling
Incineration of recyclable waste
No long-term targets
Despite this situiation, there are still a lot of leakages in the EU system: only 36% of the waste we generate is recycled today though landfilling still repsents 42% of the waste gnerated.
There are significant differneces between MS – for instance 7 MS are not landfilling any MSW altough 14 MS are still landfilling more than 70% of their MSW
Environment: inefficient use of resources has negative environmental impacts (greenhouse gas and other emissions, depletion of resources, impacts on landscape, water pollution, etc.)
Source: Eurostat

7. Adopted by the Commission 2 December 2015
The Package
Adopted by the Commission 2 December 2015
Action Plan
Communication
List of Follow-up
Initiatives (Annex)
4 Legislative
proposals on waste

8. Areas for intervention
Extraction and production processes
Product design
Distribution and consumption
Waste

9. Construction & Demolition Secondary raw materials
5 Priority sectors
Critical Raw
Materials
Food waste
Production
Food Waste
Consumption
Biomass &
Bio-based
Products
Construction & Demolition
Secondary raw materials
Plastics
Waste Management

10. 50 actions between 2015 and 2018/2019 – involving several DG's
Actions & proposals
50 actions between 2015 and 2018/2019 – involving several DG's
Ecodesign to include reparability, durability, recyclability
Actions on Green Public Procurement
Funding of €650 million for ‘Industry in the circular economy’
Legislation on fertilisers
Interface between chemicals, products and waste legislation
4 Proposals on waste
More prevention
Long term recycling&re-use targets
Landfill limitations
Marine litter, water reuse (next slides)

11. Marine litter Aspirational target of 30% for marine litter
Strategy on plastics to be established by 2017
Focus on marine litter
Recyclability/biodegradability / Bio based plastics
Vision/actions on Microplastics
Strategy for most found items
In the waste proposal:
Higher recycling target for plastics (55% by 2025), to be defined for 2030
Litter included in the waste management plans
Common rules on Extended Producer Responsibility
links between fees paid and recyclability/reparability
Contribution of the producer to public campaigns

12. Marine litter - EPR Already in place in some MS (eg BE)
Partnership between producers (Fost plus) and public authorities
17m € /year from the packaging sector
Ongoing discussions with other sectors
Source: Fost plus

13. More on litter
Rivers = vector of land based litter – increasing attention under WFD
New actions with JRC
Marine litter – baseline
Riverine litter monitoring
Analysis of Programs of measures under MFSD
Port reception facilities Directive review
International

14. Water reuse in industrial activities BREF's
5 follow-up initiatives:
Reuse in integrated water planning and management Proposal of CIS Guidelines
Minimum quality requirements for water reuse for irrigation & GW recharge Legislative proposal by 2017
Water reuse in industrial activities BREF's
Support to research and innovation
EU funds for investments in water reuse Advertising on opportunities, new mechanisms eg. under EFSI

15. Implementation of the 50 key actions
Next steps
Implementation of the 50 key actions
Timeline for implementation
Actions to be developed in line with the Better Regulation principles
Progress report
Monitoring actual progress with EEA/Eurostat
European Parliament and Council
give their opinion on the package
decide on the 4 legislative proposals on waste

16. Thank you for your attention!
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