Effective enforcement is essential to ensure that the European Union’s upcoming Circular Economy Act remains both achievable and capable of strengthening the competitiveness of European industry.
APPLiA, together with a coalition of industry associations, is calling for concrete action to remove persistent barriers that continue to hinder circularity. The Act presents a crucial opportunity to accelerate Europe’s transition towards a clean, resource-efficient, and competitive economy. However, this ambition must be matched with coherent and enforceable rules across the Single Market.
Without harmonised legislation and coordinated enforcement, compliant operators face unnecessary burdens, while non-compliance continues to go unaddressed, undermining both environmental objectives and fair market conditions.
Today, several structural shortcomings remain. These include complex and overlapping regulatory frameworks, fragmented markets for waste and secondary raw materials, limited access to and inconsistent quality of recyclates, outdated collection targets for WEEE, and insufficient enforcement mechanisms across Member States.
To address these issues, the statement is calling for streamlined, harmonised EU rules that enable the development of circular business models, incentivise innovation, and reinforce Europe’s global industrial competitiveness.
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