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

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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)

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EPR Club Structure

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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EPR Club Membership

Type of membership Fee ( euros) – ( period covered:2012/2013)

Standard membership 500

NGO & students 150

ACR+ members free

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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: info@eprclub.eu