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Fédération Européenne des Activités du Déchet et de
l’Environnement
European Federation of Waste Management and
Environmental Services
Europäische Föderation der Entsorgungswirtschaft
Nadine De Greef
FEAD Secretary General
FEAD MEMBERS
19
Member Associations
3000
Companies
330 000
Employees
€50 billion
Turnover
FEAD promotes environmentally sound Waste
Management in close co-operation with the EU
institutions, networking with horizontal and
sectoral industry, trade organisations and
coalitions.
Members
FEAD represents
•More
•More
•More
•More
than
than
than
than
200 incinerators
2 800 landfills
1 000 composting sites
1 350 recycling plants
60 % share of Municipal Solid Waste in Europe
80 % of Industrial and Commercial Waste
(incl. hazardous waste)
FEAD Mission
 Gather expertise and up-to-date information
 Compare experiences
 Advise decision-makers of the overall situation in EU
 Lessons learnt in practice should lead us to better,
more efficient legislation and therefore superior
environmental and economic performance
2006 changes to EU Waste Policy Management
Recycling Thematic Strategy
Framework legislation
Waste Framework Directive
(under revision)
Waste Shipments
Regulation
Directive on hazardous
waste
(Reg. (EEC/2006/1013)
(Dir. 1991/689/EEC)
Waste Treatment operations
Incineration of waste
Landfill of waste
(Dir. 2000/76/EC)
(Dir. 1999/31/EC)
Specific Waste Streams
Waste oils
Batteries
(Dir 1975/439/EEC)
(Dir. 2006/66)
ELV
(Dir. 2000/53/EC)
Sewage sludge
(Dir. 1986/278/EEC)
P&PW
(Dir. 1994/62/EC)
Mining Waste
Dir. EC/2006/21
WEEE
(Dir. 2002/96/EC)
REVISION OF
THE WASTE FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE
TIMELINE
Beginning 2007
German Presidency
Political Agreement
28.06.2007
End 2007
Portuguese Presidency
Council Common Position
2nd Reading
Beginning 2008
Slovenian Presidency
Conciliation
Final Act
KEY ISSUES
Waste Hierarchy
By-products
Recovery and Energy-from-Waste
Self-Sufficiency and Proximity Principles
Other issues
Waste Hierarchy
EP First Reading:
 5-step hierarchy as general rule
 LCA and cost-benefit analysis for specific waste stream to deviate from
hierarchy
CL current position (28 February 2007):
 5-step hierarchy as “guiding” principle
 Departing where indicated by LCT
 MS to take into account gen. ENV protection principles, technical &
economic viability
FEAD position:
 An integrated waste management system will provide the most
sustainable resource management
 FEAD supports a 5-step hierarchy only if flexibility is granted
 FEAD welcomes the life-cycle thinking
 FEAD would welcome guidelines to secure an harmonized European
approach/Life-cycle tools ought to be easily usable in waste policy
By-products
EP First Reading:
 Recital calling for Commission’s guidelines was adopted
 Additional article calling for a Commission legislative proposal on byproducts
CL current position (28 February 2007):
 Member States decision on a case by case basis if certain conditions
are met
FEAD position:
 FEAD members are opposed to the creation of a “third legal”
category
 Any definition on by-products requires a proper assessment of any
potential negative impacts on the environment
 Any attempt to “freeze” the legal certainty to the present
jurisprudence will fail
 Developing guidelines is the best way to proceed
Recovery and Energy-from-Waste
EP First Reading:
 Definition of recovery includes again reference to interim operations
 MEPs recognised that energy-from-waste should be classified as
Recovery (def energy recovery adopted)
 But no formula was adopted
CL current position (28 February 2007):
 Definition of recovery is close to initial Commission’s proposal (ref.
Annex II as non-exhaustive list)
 R1 formula as proposed by the Commission + reference to BAT for
Waste Incineration
FEAD position:
 FEAD welcomes that municipal waste incinerators may be considered
as recovery operations
 The energy efficiency criterion should be accessible under the
conditions prevailing in all EU Member States.
 The threshold should be based on the energy efficiency performances
that are achievable when using the Best Available Techniques
Self-Sufficiency and Proximity Principles
EP First Reading:
 Amendments extending the application of the self-sufficiency
principle to waste destined for Recovery were rejected
CL current position (28 February 2007):
 Integrated network of disposal installations and installations for
recovery of MSW collected from private household
FEAD position:
 FEAD is opposed to the extension of the self-sufficiency principle to
waste for Recovery
 Open markets in the waste management industry is a driver for high
EU environmental standards
Other FEAD statements linked to the rev of WFD
 FEAD opposes any modification to the definition of waste
 FEAD understands the need for a proposal to clarify the “end-ofwaste” status in exceptional cases
 Regulation provides control and guarantees a high level of
environmental and health protection therefore the Commission
initiatives should not reduce the safeguards applied to the
management of waste
 FEAD calls to maintain proven principles and instruments such as
the ‘polluter pays’ principle’ or the producer’s responsibility
 FEAD is not in favour of integrating the Hazardous Waste Directive
into the Waste Framework Directive
 Modernisation and simplification of legislations should not lead
to deregulation
END-OF-WASTE PROJECT
• carried out by the Joint Research Centre –
IPTS (Institute for Prospective Technological
Studies)
• aim is to develop a general methodology for
determining end-of-waste criteria
• case studies on:
 Aggregates
 Compost
 Scrap metal
FEAD EVENTS
FEAD Workshop on the Implementation of
the Landfill Directive
10-11 May 2007, Budapest, Hungary
FEAD Annual Conference
18-19 October 2007, Athens, Greece
aisbl
Rue Philippe Le Bon, 15
B – 1000 BRUSSELS
Tel: + 32 2 732 32 13
Fax: + 32 2 734 95 92
Email: [email protected]
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