It’s Halloween, the perfect day for scares! And let’s be honest, nothing is more frightening than a fragile recycling industry…
Closing the Loop: Addressing the Plastic Recycling Crisis in Europe: On 29 October, FEAD took part in the stakeholder roundtable ‘Closing the Loop: Addressing the Plastic Recycling Crisis in Europe’, hosted by Jessika Roswall, European Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy.
EU Plastic recycling industry: On 28 October, FEAD, in cooperation with several EU associations such as Plastics Recyclers Europe, Recycling Europe, PET, ALPLA and more, sent a letter to Commissioners Ribera, Séjourné and Roswall, calling on the European Commission to maintain the existing definition of ‘post-consumer plastic waste’ as established under the Single-Use-Plastics Directive (SUPD) in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/2683.
Shipment of illegal waste: In a judgment delivered on 23 October, the Court of Justice of the Union clarified the scope of the obligation to take back when a shipment is illegal provided for by Waste Shipment Regulation.
Cleaning up litter: On 24 October, the EU’s Official Journal published a Commission notice on the criteria on the costs of cleaning up litter under Art. 8 of the 2019 single-use plastics directive.
4 November Environment Council: The agenda of the upcoming 4 November Environment Council has been published.
Commission strategic projects: On 29 October, the European Commission published a form which stakeholders will have to complete to apply for the ‘strategic project’ label under the Critical Raw Materials Act.
RESourceEU: On 25 October, the Global Dialogue in Berlin, von der Leyen, the President of the Commission announced the launch of an initiative titled RESourceEU.
Climate finance: On 27 October, the Council published the figures on the EU’s spending on climate finance which represents a sum of 31.7 billion euros from public sources and an additional 11 billion euros from private finance.
Green Deal – 175 associations sound the alarm: On 23 October, 175 associations published an open letter to European institutions calling for a budget that ensures the proper implementation of the Green Deal and the COP15 agreement on biodiversity.
Soil Monitoring Law (SML): On 28 October, the Soil Monitoring Law was published in the Official Journal of the EU.
Teresa Ribera on simplification: On 27 October, the Executive Vice-President of the Commission, Teresa Ribera, reposted an article on Blusky by the Financial Times titled ‘developping countries at risk from EU’s simplification drive’.
