Anna Karamat, European Commission

1. WHERE NOW FOR UK WASTE
POLICY?
#UKADBiogas @adbioresources
CHAIR:
WILLIAM HELLER, TAMAR ENERGY
KEYNOTES:
ANNA KARAMAT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DR DOMINIC HOGG, EUNOMIA RESEARCH AND CONSULTING
DR RICHARD SWANNELL, WRAP

2. Circular Economy –
The European Commission's
Perspective

3. Lineareconomy
VS
Concept

4. Why is it needed?
Job
creation

5. Estimated world population, 1950-
2000, and projections: 2000-2050
(UN)
Growth of the World Economy
1950 20502010
Growing population

6. Resources prices

7. "Loss of valuable materials due to improper waste management"
Leakages

8. Challenge

9. • Waste generation in decline
• Strategy to combat food waste in place
• Recycling/Reuse increased
• Energy recovery limited to non-recyclable waste
• Phasing out of landfilling (only for residual waste)
• Focus on market-based instruments,
implementation
7th EAP Objectives
For 2020

10. First package adopted in July 2014 including:
a Communication on Circular Economy
Specific challenges
Waste target review
Enabling framework
Resource efficiency target
a Legislative proposal on waste
Answering to review clauses in 3 Directives by 2014
Implementing part of the 7th EAP
CE Proposal of 2014

11. Proposed waste targets

12. Better implementation
• Better data:
• Improved definitions
• Clarification on what counts as "recycling"
• Definition of municipal waste
• Third party verification of statistics
• National electronic registries
• Dissemination of best practices:
• Minimum conditions for EPR
• Early Warning System

13. Between July 2014 and January 2015:
• 8 meetings with Working Parties at Council, 1
orientation debate
• New Commission, new work program
• Repeal of the waste proposal
• New package on circular economy with a more
ambitious approach announced
• Not focusing only on waste management
• Less prescriptive
• Better take into account the situation of each MS
First to second package

14. Not enough on prevention and re-use
Level of ambition
• Some targets considered as high by MS
• Different situation of MS not sufficiently taken into
account
Technical problems
• Definition of municipal waste
• Reporting methods – what is effectively recycled?
• Consensus on one method for municipal waste but by
when?
Other issues
• Producer responsibility – too detailed requirements
• Early warning system – too prescriptive
Main issues

15. Two main angles:
• Revised legislative proposal on waste
• Communication listing additional initiatives to
cover the "other part of the circle"
• DG ENV and DG GROW co leaders, SG as
coordinator
• At 'brainstorming' stage
Ongoing work

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

17. New waste proposal should:
• Better cover re-use and prevention
• Better take into account the starting position of
the MS while keeping similar level of ambition
• Ensure full implementation of targets
• Clarify some key concepts
• Be less prescriptive
Focus on waste

18. Additional initiatives on waste:
• Mining and industrial waste: BREFs
• Construction and demolition waste
• Incentivizing secondary raw materials markets:
• Criteria for waste derived organic fertilizers
• End of waste criteria for plastics
• Clarify interface Waste-Chemicals Legislation
• Facilitate intra-EU waste shipments
Focus on waste

19. • Support from the European Structural and
Investment Funds
• Full integration into the European Fund for
Strategic Investments (EFSI)
• Funding of research and information
• Dissemination of best practice
Supporting measures

20. • Public consultation End of May-August
• Stakeholder Conference 25 June
• New package to be adopted by end 2015
Time plan

21. Thank you for your attention!
For more information see:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular-
economy/

22. WHERE NOW FOR UK WASTE
POLICY?
#UKADBiogas @adbioresources
CHAIR:
WILLIAM HELLER, TAMAR ENERGY
KEYNOTES:
ANNA KARAMAT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DR DOMINIC HOGG, EUNOMIA RESEARCH AND CONSULTING
DR RICHARD SWANNELL, WRAP