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ACR+ EPR Club:
Framework & Programme
of Activities
Françoise Bonnet – Brussels Environnement
Brussels, 8 November 2012
Presentation outline
EU waste policy and EPR
EU EPR principle
EPR schemes in Europe
EPR Club Objectives / Structure/ Activities /Themes
Events / Membership
Brussels 8 November 2012
What is EPR?
EPR is an environmental policy approach in which a producer’s
responsibility for a product is extended to the post-consumer
stage of a product’s life cycle (OECD, 2010)
Objectives:
• Integration of environmental costs
• Improved waste management
• Reduction of disposal
• Reduction of the burden on municipalities
• Design of environmentally sound products
EU waste policy and EPR
Continuous increasing influence of EPR in EU law:
- 1996 Communication on the Review of the Community Strategy for
Waste Management (EU Commission)
- 6th Community Environment Action Programme (Decision
1600/2002, art. 8 § 2)
- Underlined in several specific legislation (packaging, ELV, WEEE,
batteries, Waste Framework Directive)
EU waste policy and EPR
Waste Framework Directive 2008/98
Art. 8
1. In order to strengthen the re-use and the prevention, recycling and
other recovery of waste, Member States may take legislative or non-
legislative measures to ensure that any natural or legal person who
professionally develops, manufactures, processes, treats, sells or imports
products (producer of the product) has extended producer responsibility.
Art. 14
1. In accordance with the polluter-pays principle, the costs of waste
management shall be borne by the original waste producer or by the
current or previous waste holders..
EU waste policy and EPR
Resource Efficiency Roadmap (20/09/2011)
MS … assess measures to extend producer responsibility to the full
life-cycle of the products they make (including via new business models,
through guidance on take-back and recycling schemes and support for
repair services)…
EC .. assess the introduction of minimum recycled material rates, durability
and re-usability criteria and extensions of producer responsibility for
key products (in 2012).
• Packaging
• Batteries & accumulators
• End-of-life vehicles
• Electric & electronic
equipment
• Pharmaceuticals
• Tires
• Waste oils
• Paper
• Paints
• Building materials
• Pesticides
• Furniture
EU Directives Member States
• Packaging
• Batteries & accumulators
• End-of-Life vehicles
• Waste Electric & electronic
equipment
EPR schemes in Europe
The concept
Create a platform for exchange and
dissemination of good EPR practices amongst
key stakeholders and experts
Allow a dialogue on EU Policy developments
and technical implementation of EPR schemes
Proposals « Towards common principles for
EPR in Europe »
EPR Club Objectives
To build a joint initiative to identify the good (best) practices in
the Extended Producer Responsibility field, to disseminate them
widely or even reinforce the European legal bases;
To Allow dialogue on EU policy developments and strategies
regarding EPR schemes;
To clarify the EPR cocncept towards policy-makers and the
civil society;
To promote EU harmonisation and identify and highlight the
factors that drive the implementation of EPR schemes;
To increase the knowledge and commitment of the
producers themselves and to identify the impact on the waste
sector;
To strengthen each level of the waste hierarchy and minimise
the environmental impact of products across their entire lifecycle;
EPR Club topics
Competition under EPR schemes
Common principles for EPR in Europe
Waste shipments and free riders
Role and objectives of EPR vs other economic instruments
Relations between public and private sectors, and the specific
place of municipalities
Performances benchmarking for specific EPR in Europe
Municipal & non-municipal waste/ healthcare EPR schemes
EPR for specific products or materials ( packaging, plastics, WEEE, textiles, etc)
Brussels, 8 November 2012
EPR Club Structure
Brussels, 8 November 2012
Main partners
Steering Committee (ACR+ members):
= financial & technical support
IBGE-BIM, Brussels Capital Region (BE)
ARC, Waste Catalan Agency (ES)
Rudologia, French competence center for waste
management ( FR)
ISR, Spanish Institute for Waste Management (ES)
AICA, National Waste Observatory ( IT)
External Partners - Sponsors
Brussels, 8 November 2012
External partners -
Sponsors
Fund some research work on specific topic (European
overview, interviews on key questions, …)
Sponsor a seminar on specific topic, on an exclusive
basis for an event with max 50 people and 4-5 invited
speakers in Brussels)
Sponsor the work of a thematic working group:
preparation/organisation /delivery of a set of meetings,
associated forum and drafting of consecutive report
Support (financial/ technical) in the organisation of
annual conference in September 2013
Brussels, 8 November 2012
External partners -
Sponsors
Benefits of becoming an External Partner for the EPR
Club:
Free access and participation to EPR Club activities
Run webinar on a topic/theme selected by you
Express and publish positions on thematic areas
Visibility, Network and exchange of experiences in
relation to EPR
Participate in the debate towards common goals for
EPR in Europe
Brussels, 8 November 2012
Programme of activities
Web-based platform that will consist of:
Virtual library and working space allowing to share
information and positions
Regular webinars with possibility of interactive debate
Working spaces for information & positioning papers
Thematic Working Groups
Brussels, 8 November 2012
Programme of activities
Events:
Launch Event in Brussels : 4 June 2012
Thematic Events:
26 October 2012, Lunch conference in Brussels,
28 November 2012, Lunch conference at the European
Parlement in Brussels, co-organised by Globe, BEE and
ACR+,
19 December 2012: Conference in Paris organised by
Rudologia
And September 2013: Annual EPR Conference
Brussels, 8 November 2012
EPR Club Membership
Type of membership Fee ( euros) – ( period covered:2012/2013)
Standard membership 500
NGO & students 150
ACR+ members free
Brussels, 8 November 2012
ACR+ EPR Club : A powerful tool to strengthen the
waste hierarchy and reach a Resource Efficient Europe
To join the ACR+ EPR Club, visit:
Web: www.eprclub.eu
Email: [email protected]