Thematic Strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste CIWM PaigntonTorbay 13 June 2006 Timo Mak

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Thematic Strategy on the prevention and recycling
of wasteCIWMPaignton/Torbay13 June 2006Timo
Makela, European CommissionDirector Sustainable
Development and Integration
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Vision of the Resources Strategy
Economic
Decoupling of resource use
activity (GDP)
from economic growth
Resource use
Decoupling of environmental
Environmental
impact from resource use
impact
2005
2030
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Objectives of the Waste Strategy

• Put prevention policies into action
• Reinforce the waste recycling market
• Modernise by bringing new environmental thinking
  into waste policy
• Improve the regulatory environment, i.e. clarify
  and simplify

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Life Cycle Thinking

• Specifying the environmental objective
• Help identify priorities for future measures
• Provide yardstick to assess policies
• Assist implementing LCT
• Guidance
• Information and research

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GHG emissions savings
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Putting Prevention into Action

• Framework approach involving all levels
• EU actions IPPC, REACH, IPP, EMAS, Eco-label
• Programmes at national/sub-national levels
• Agree on a list of actions to be considered by MS
• Targets and indicators at appropriate level
• Improve science and knowledge useful for waste
  prevention
• Environmental potential of prevention actions
• Assess against environmental objective

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Moving closer to a Recycling society

• First phase - today
• Renewed emphasis on implementation
• Better regulation clarify and simplify
• Encourage use of national disposal taxes
• Work on common standards
• Second phase
• Assess need for additional measures to stimulate
  move to recycling society
• Continue improving the regulation to facilitate
  high standard recycling and recovery

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Revision of WFD

• Leave elements that work untouched
• Life cycle environmental impact thinking
• Tackle identified problems end of waste,
  recovery and disposal
• Modernise, simplify, clarify where useful
• Reinforce standards waste prevention
• Hazardous Waste Waste Oil Dirs

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Current state of play

• Council will adopt Conclusions on the Thematic
  Strategy at June Env Council, European Parliament
  in November
• Waste Framework Directive likely to be in
  negotiations until 2008
• Commission is working on the Thematic Strategy
  actions Communication on Waste/By-products,
  scientific work on life cycle thinking

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Current issues

• Comitology provisions clearer mandate, or
  co-decision? - EP and some MS
• Waste Management hierarchy life cycle thinking
• Efficiency criteria for recovery some MS say
  too high, others argue all incineration -
  disposal
• Waste oil repeal, biowaste provisions
• Waste prevention targets or programmes?
• Internal market for recycling or shipment
  restrictions?
• European waste management standards national
  standards
• Producer responsibility and poluter-pays principle

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Thank you for your attentionTimo.Makela_at_cec.eu.
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