Summary:
Cefic welcomes the European Commission’s Waste Shipment Regulation proposal aimed at ensuring safe waste handling, preserving the environment and human health, combating illegal waste trafficking, and promoting a competitive circular economy. While Cefic supports the proposal’s direction towards creating a market for secondary raw materials, simplifying procedures, and advancing innovative recycling technologies, the association has identified several aspects where challenges remain. Cefic makes some recommendations, including enabling digitalisation, streamlining waste shipment procedures, verifying environmentally sound management (ESM), protecting confidential business information, promoting innovative technologies, and ensuring harmonised implementation.
Takeaways:
- Enabling digitalisation: Cefic supports the full digitalisation of our distributinon chains in a harmonised and efficient way, avoiding duplication of requirements.
- Streamlining of waste shipment procedures: Cefic welcomes the suggested measures to simplify the procedures, to reduce administrative burdens and delays while maintaining efficient enforcement against illegal waste trafficking.
- ESM Verification: Cefic highlights the need for clear criteria for environmentally sound management (ESM) assessments and suggest developing a central register of audited facilities to streamline verification.