EU SCPSIP Action Plan Regulatory update and insight

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EU SCP/SIP Action Plan Regulatory update and
insight

• European Economic and Social Committee Hearing,
  10 December 2008,
• Bettina Lorz
• DG Environment, European Commission

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Broad Challenges

• Towards an energy and resource efficient economy
• Reduce environmental stress in a growing economy
• Changing patterns of consumption
• Transfer environmental challenges intoeconomic
  opportunities

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Natural resources
SCP Better Products
SCP Leaner Production
Waste Recycling Legislation
SCP Consumption
ETAP Eco-innovation
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Action Plan on Sustainable Consumption and
Production / Sustainable Industrial Policy

• A package adopted by the Commission 16 July 2008
• Council conclusions adopted 4 December 2008
• - Better Products
• - Smarter Consumption
• - Leaner Production
• - Action at global level

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• Better Products and Smarter Consumption

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Building on Integrated Product Policy

• Building on environmental life-cycle thinking
• Advocating life-cycle thinking for products
• Continuous improvement of products
• Working with the market economic incentives,
  standards, labelling, public procurement,
  voluntary agreements
• Stakeholder involvement

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SCP/SIP Action Plan Integrating instruments

• Better products
• Exclude bad performance
• Promote good Performance
• Continuous Improvement
• Key Legislation
• Ecodesign
• Energy Labelling
• Ecolabel

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Better productsProposal for a recast of the
Ecodesign Directive in Co-decision

• From energy-using to energy-related products (in
  future all products?)
• Implementing measures
• - Minimum requirements
• - Benchmarks of environmental performance
• - Periodic update of requirements and benchmarks

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Effective Labelling

• Proposal for a revised Energy Labelling
  Directive in co-decision
• mandatory
• energy-related products
• Proposal for a revised Ecolabel Regulation in
  co-decision
• voluntary
• Front runner label (top 10)
• Broad scope

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Incentives

• Performance levels identified under revised
  Energy Labelling Directive will also set basis
• for Member States incentives
• for mandatory Public Procurement

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Green Public Procurement Communication and
Council conclusions(voluntary actions)

• 16 of EU GDP
• Provide Guidance
• Set Common Criteria
• Indicative Targets

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Data and methods on products

• Consistent and reliable data required Life-cycle
  data and methodologies, Product data centre ...
• Sharing of data under different instruments
• Harmonised standards ?

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Labelling Directive A A A A B C D G
EU GPP Stimulate market for better products
ensuring adequate competition
Incentives
Ecodesign Voluntary benchmarks Compulsory
minimum requirements
EU GPP Not procure below benchmark
Ecodesign Exclusion from markets
Product Category
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Working with Retailers

• Retail Forum
• Promote sustainable products
• Reduce environmental footprint of retail sector
• Green supply chains
• Share best practice
• not an exclusive club Wider participation
  encouraged

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• Leaner Production

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Leaner Production

• Promote Resource Efficiency and Eco-innovation
• Tools to monitor and benchmark towards targets
• Environmental Technology Verification Scheme
  proposal end 2008/start 2009
• Enhance the environmental potential of industry
• Revised EMAS Regulation proposal in co-decision
• Industrial policy for environmental industries
  study obstacles
• Support SMEs implementation

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• Global dimension

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Towards Global Markets for Sustainable Products

• Promote good practice - SCP Action Plan as input
  to UN Marrakech10YPFP of actions
• Promote international trade in environmentally
  friendly goods and services
• Promote sectoral approaches in international
  climate negotiations

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Overview

• Council conclusions
• SCP Action Plan
• GPP Communication
• In co-decision
• Recast of Ecodesign Directive
• Recast of Energy Labelling Directive
• Proposal for a revised Ecolabel Regulation
• Proposal for a revised EMAS Regulation
• Later in 2009
• Environmental Technology Verification Scheme
• Retailer Forum
• Review of Actions 2012
• Extended Ecodesign Labelling directives ?

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European Commission DG Environment Sustainable
Consumption and Production Unit
Thank you
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