Circular Economy Package
The Circular Economy Package provides an ideal opportunity to further transition to a resource efficient and competitive Europe and to drive further recycling and recovery of packaging waste. It also enhances industry’s ability to carry out its legal Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) obligations under the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD). New opportunities lie ahead with the review of the EU PPWD.
EUROPEN remains supportive of the objective to move further towards a circular economy and is willing to work constructively with the Commission on a new legislative proposal in 2015. Future EU legislation should be clear, proportionate and effective, safeguarding the Internal Market and enabling innovation and growth for the packaging value chain in Europe.
This dedicated section provides a platform to communicate EUROPEN’s latest news & views related to the Circular Economy Package.
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Continuous environmental improvement of the Packaging Supply Chain in Europe: corporate initiatives/commitments of EUROPEN members
29 January 2018In view of the publication of the EU Plastics Strategy and the European Commission’s launch of the voluntary pledging exercise, EUROPEN members have published their corporate voluntary read more
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EUROPEN memo-The environmental and economic objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive will be better served by preserving the Internal Market as its sole legal basis
26 May 2017EUROPEN strongly believes that the legal basis of the European Commission’s proposed amendment and of the parent PPWD should remain the Internal Market for the following reasons: The read more
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ENVI vote on the WFD & PPWD - EUROPEN Recommendations to Council
08 February 2017EUROPEN’s recommendations for Council following the ENVI vote on the Waste Framework Directive and Packaging and Packaging Waste DirectiveFebruary 2017Taking into account the European read more
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Towards a Competitive and Growth-Oriented Circular Economy: the Role of the Packaging Value Chain
09 May 2016The below article is EUROPEN's contribution to the Global Sustain Yearbook on “Sustainable Consumption and Production: Towards a Circular Economy”. A global multi-stakeholder album to be read more
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Circular Economy Package: Joint cross-industry packaging value chain recommendations
21 September 2015Packaging plays a positive role in a Circular Economy by optimising resource use, minimising product waste and protecting products all along value chains. Packaging is cross-sectoral and, in order to read more
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“The packaging supply chain, as represented in EUROPEN, is using less and less material to get products to the consumer in good condition. In the context of overall sustainability, packaging should be regarded as part of the solution, and as a net contributor to achieving the broad sustainability goals of resource optimisation and waste minimisation” Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, EUROPEN
EUROPEN in the news
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Circular economy? Not without the internal market!, 6 February 2018
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The Circular Economy Strategy: What goes around, comes around, 22 August 2015
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EUROPEN welcomes EU's focus on extended producer responsibility, 9 July 2015
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The role of packaging and a call to safeguard its sectoral regulatory approach (page 16), The Parliament Magazine, 29 June 2015
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Europen calls for clearer EU legal framework for EPR, PackagingNews, 24 April 2015
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EUROPEN Calls for Strengthened EU Legal Framework, packagingeurope, 24 April 2015
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Meeting Summary: EP ENVI Committee Meeting – Public hearing on the Waste Legislative Package, 22 January 2015
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New waste management paper looks at priorities for circular economy, PIE – Plastics Information Europe, 5 January 2015
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Packaging industry calls for new waste targets proposal without delay, European Environment & Packaging Law, 19 December 2014
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INTERVIEW: Minimum EPR requirements and realistic targets essential, says EUROPEN, European Environment & Packaging Law, 16 December 2014
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