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Circular Economy Action Plan
Revision of Fertilisers Regulation
DG GROW
Recycle Nutrients for Clear WatersForum for Action, Helsinki,20 April 2016
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From a Linear Economy…DISPOSEMAKETAKENATURAL
RESOURCES
WASTEWASTEWASTE
…to a Circular Economy
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The Fertilisers Regulation in the context of Circular Economy Action plan
The objectives
• Making Fertilisers more sustainable• Promote recycling of nutrients and boost the market
for secondary raw materials
The Potential of domestic bio-waste for market of fertilising products
• Substitution of mined or synthetic fertilisers by biomass or bio-wastes based fertilisers:• Nitrogen: +3% market share by 2025• Phosphorus: +14%• Potash: +22%
88%
12%
P2O5 in 2015Inorganic nutrientsOrganic nutrients
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Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen, responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment andCompetitiveness (17 March 2016): "Very few of the abundant bio-waste resources are transformed into valuable fertilising products. Our farmers are using fertilisers manufactured from imported resources or from energy-intensive processes although our industry could valorise these bio-wastes in recycled nutrients.This Regulation will help us turn problems into opportunities for farmers and businesses."
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The Fertilisers Regulation creates a level playing field for all fertilising products
• CE-marked fertilising products will be subject to similar rules under the new legislative framework
• Quality, Safety and Labelling requirements• Conformity assessment procedures
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Component Material Categories
Product FunctionCategories
CMC 1: Non-polymer virgin materialsCMC 2: Simple plant parts or extractsCMC 3: CompostCMC 4: Energy crop digestateCMC 5: Other digestateCMC 6: Food industry by-products CMC 7: Micro-organismsCMC 8: Agronomic additivesCMC 9: Nutrient polymers
PFC1 - Fertiliser (A) Organic
(I) Solid
(II) Liquid
(B) Organo-mineral(C) Inorganic
PFC2 – Liming material
PFC3 – Soil Improver (A) Organic
(B) Inorganic
PFC4 – Growing medium
PFC5 – Agronomic additive(A) Inhibitor
(B) Chelating agent
PFC6 – Plant Biostimulant (A) Microbial
(B) Non-Microbial
PFC7 – Fertilising product blend
A CE marked fertiliser is composed of…. A CE marked fertilising product belongs to….
CMC 10: Other polymersCMC 11: Animal By-products
(I) Solid
(II) Liquid
(I) Macronutrient
(II) Micronutrient
(C) Complexing agent
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Issues related to recycled nutrients
• Technological aspect: • Available technologies from lab to industrial scale.• Varying quality and not acceptable input materials
(okay for composts, digestates, processed manure, other animal by-products)
• Safety aspect: "End-of-waste criteria" providing rules for leaving waste status (now composts, digestates; later, ashes, struvite, biochar)
• Acceptability for all national legislators (if CE-marked)
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Optional harmonisation• Member States may allow other fertilisers on their markets
without the CE marking• Political choice of new COM driven by subsidiarity principle• We reserve harmonise rules for products :
• where scientific consensus exists, • where need to freely circulate exists
• Less market disruptive: CE-products compete with national ones
• Leave room for innovation for recycling nutrients: first, test your business case at national level, then, work on EU harmonisation if opportunity exists.
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Thank you for your attention !
European CommissionDG GrowthUnit D2 - Chemicals Industry Unit F.2
