Environmental Compliance Assistance Programme for SMEs – and beyond

Imola BedőDG Environment C1 – Sustainable Production and Consumption Unit

Potential = Business

• 23bn GBP23/ year potential savings for British enterprises – efficiency measures without or with little investment

• Providing resource efficiency and environmental services: eco-industries leading• 3.4 million fulltime job equivalents• Renewable energies: growing area• Leading market shares in water management (30%),

sustainable mobility (35%), green power generation (40%), waste management and recycling (50%), material and resource efficiency (10%)

We’d want SMEs to see that…

• … it’s more than treehugging

• Business reality, competitiveness issue, new opportunities

• … but many SMEs don’t seem to see • 70% thinks they don’t have impact on the environment• 0,4% has a certified EMS• Short term focus• Lack of time, expertise

in need of support, advice

Lack of awareness on environmental legislationLack of expertise to understand legislationThe cost of compliance is relatively higher

Lack of time and expertise to understand issuesLack of clear, simple information

Lack of time and expertise to implement environmental measures

Lack of financial resources to address environmental issues

Betterregulation

Targetedinformation

Tailor-madeEMS

Targetedfunding

Localexpertise

ECAP

Some tools

CHANGE – IEEAdvising SMEs on

energyLCA to goLCA tool

development for SMEs

SustainGraph – LIFE+Development of an e-tool to

help improve the performance of EU graphic SMEs

EMAS Easy 123 Environnement

ShoeLawEnviornmental

compliance - diagnosis

National Industrial Symbiosis Programme

Advice to SMEs

Roadmap to Resource efficiency

Food MobilityBuildings

70 - 80% of total impacts

Water

Clean air

Soil

Materials

Marine resources

Key

res

ourc

es

Policies in the life cycle

Waste

Design

Pro-duction

Distribution

Use

Collection

Reuse, recycling

Natural resources

Natural resources Better

products

Efficient production

More intelligent consumption

Waste and recycling

Roadmap and SMEs

Support networking and exchange of best practice between agencies providing resource efficiency assistance to SMEs

Corresponding MS recommendation: Ensure that advice and support is available to help SMEs identify and improve their resource efficiency and sustainable use of raw materials (continuous);

Policies and regulation

Demonstrationprojects,

partnerships

Standards &performance

targets

Finance andsupport to SMEs

Internationalcooperation

New skillsand jobs

Europeaninnovation

partnerships

Barriers

Uncertainty of demand

Uncertainty of return on investment (or too long pay-back)

Lack of funds

Insufficient access to subsidies or fiscal incentives

Lack of external financing

Next FP7 Call: July 2012

Priorities:waste, waste treatment, drinking water, construction materials and insulation of buildings

H2020 financial

perspective (grants, equity,

credits), ETV system

bilateral environmental dialogue; network of eco-innovators (UNEP); technology transfer to developing countries

Flagship:An agenda for EU skills and jobs

Grouping institutions,

experts, stakeholders for

fast-track solutionsIdentified priorities:

raw materials, water

Action 4: focus on SME needs Increase trust in eco-innovation outcomes -ETV

a voluntary scheme to certify the eco-innovative aspect of technologies, products or services (active in BE, CZ, DK, FI, FR, PL, UK)

Faster investment and finance - network of financiers: EC Commission will launch a call for proposal to set up a network of green financiers for better uptake of eco-innovation (financed under CIP eco-innovation, 2012-13)

EU Regional funds: "Smart specialisation strategies"

The possibility to create new financial instruments in support of eco-innovation is being explored - EU Loan & Guarantee Service (policy and market driven) and an Equity Instrument for research and innovation (start-up and growth phase)

• strengthen the role of eco-innovation• provide financial means for the implementation of the

EcoAP (2014-20) mainly through:

Societal Challenge “Climate Action and Resource Efficiency,

including Raw Materials”3160 million € proposed total funding

Useful links

• SMEs & environmental policy: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme

• ECAP Forum: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/forums/ECAP/

• ECAP Helpdesk: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/helpdesk/index_en.htm

• EMAS website: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/emas/index_en.htm

• EMAS Easy methodology: http://www.emas-easy.eu/

• Development of EMAS sectoral reference documents:

http://susproc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/activities/emas/index.html

• Life+: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/

• CIP eco-innovation: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eco-innovation/

• JEREMIE: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/funds/2007/jjj/index_en.htm

• SME techweb (FP7): http://ec.europa.eu/research/sme-techweb/index_en.cfm

• Enterprise Europe Network: http://www.enterprise-europe-network.ec.europa.eu/

• Money back through the window: http://www.environmental-savings.com/

• ENTR study on SMEs and environment:

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/business-environment/environmental-challenge/index_en.htm

• Study on the competitiveness of eco-industries:

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=3769&tpa_id=203&lang=en

• Eco-innovation Observatory http://www.eco-innovation.eu/

• Ecopol project http://www.ecopol-project.eu/ ;

• ETV pilot: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/etv/etv_preprog.htm