{"id":3215,"date":"2025-07-03T20:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/een.si\/accelerating-the-eus-transition-to-a-circular-economy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:49:36","slug":"accelerating-the-eus-transition-to-a-circular-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/accelerating-the-eus-transition-to-a-circular-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating the EU&#8217;s transition to a circular economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 2 July 2025, the European Commission launched <strong>several initiatives<\/strong> to <strong>accelerate the EU&#8217;s transition to a circular economy<\/strong> and to prepare a <strong>Circular Economy Act<\/strong> to be presented in 2026. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"991\" height=\"695\" src=\"https:\/\/een.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/reuse-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/een.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/reuse-1.png 991w, https:\/\/een.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/reuse-1-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/een.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/reuse-1-768x539.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 991px) 100vw, 991px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initiatives adopted today include <strong>rules on waste shipments<\/strong> and an <strong>assessment of legislation on electronic waste<\/strong>. In addition, new rules to <strong>improve recycling efficiency<\/strong> and <strong>recover materials from waste batteries<\/strong> will be published in the coming days. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Commission is also launching a <strong>public consultation<\/strong> and will shortly publish a <strong>call for evidence<\/strong>. The actions cover different aspects of the circular economy and will help to drive the transition and strengthen the implementation of existing legislation.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future Circular Economy Act will support the EU&#8217;s objectives under the Competitiveness Compass and the Clean Industrial Deal to double the EU&#8217;s share of recycled materials in the economy by 2030 and to become a world leader in the circular economy.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_25_1710\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full message<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/environment.ec.europa.eu\/news\/commission-adopts-key-legal-act-simplify-and-digitalise-waste-shipments-eu-2025-07-02_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News on the Digital Waste Shipment System<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/environment.ec.europa.eu\/publications\/diwass-implementing-regulation_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Implementing Regulation on the digitisation of procedures for shipments of waste<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/environment.ec.europa.eu\/publications\/diwass-implementing-regulation-annex_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annex to the Implementing Regulation on the digitisation of procedures for shipments of waste<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/law\/better-regulation\/have-your-say\/initiatives\/14712-Green-listing-certain-waste-for-the-purposes-of-shipments-to-recovery-between-Member-States_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public consultation on waste sorting to facilitate shipment for recycling in the EU<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/environment.ec.europa.eu\/news\/circular-economy-evaluation-looks-how-improve-weee-directive-2025-07-02_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News on the evaluation of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/environment.ec.europa.eu\/publications\/staff-working-document-evaluation-directive-201219eu-waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-weee_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commission Staff Working Document on the evaluation of the WEEE Directive<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/environment.ec.europa.eu\/publications\/staff-working-document-executive-summary-evaluation-directive-201219eu-european-parliament-and_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summary of the evaluation of the WEEE Directive<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/environment.ec.europa.eu\/publications\/final-report-study-supporting-evaluation-directive-201219eu-waste-electrical-and-electronic_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Support study for the evaluation of the WEEE Directive<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/law\/better-regulation\/have-your-say\/initiatives\/13420-Waste-from-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-evaluating-the-EU-rules_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public consultation on the WEEE Directive (closed)<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Waste_statistics_-_electrical_and_electronic_equipment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurostat &#8211; Waste statistics &#8211; Electrical and electronic equipment<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/topics\/eu-competitiveness\/clean-industrial-deal_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clean Industrial Agreement | European Commission<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/topics\/eu-competitiveness\/competitiveness-compass_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Competitiveness Compass &#8211; European Commission<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 July 2025, the European Commission launched several initiatives to accelerate the EU&#8217;s transition to a circular economy and to prepare a Circular Economy Act to be presented in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3221,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}