1. Dr Caroline Jackson MEP
The EU and Waste Management: where are we headed?

2. The European Parliament
Only directly elected EU institution
Increasing in power to affect new law
Procedures obscure and secretive
Very poor collaboration with national parliaments in most Member States
Vital that business understands and connects with it

3. The new UK MEPs Conservative 24 UKIP 13 Labour 11 Lib Dem 10 Greens 2
BNP PC
Excludes Scotland and N Ireland results

4. The new European Parliament
EPP (centre right)
Socialists
Liberals and allies
Greens
ECR
United Left
EFD
No Group
ECR = European Conservatives and Reformists =UK Tories + Right wing Poles, Czechs, and solo MEPs from other states

5. The EU and waste to date Some of the key directives adopted are
Packaging waste (1994)
Landfill (1999)
End of Life Vehicles (2000)
WEEE* (2003)
Hazardous Waste (1991 and 1994)
Incineration of waste (2000)
Waste Shipments (1993)
Batteries (2001)
*waste electrical and electronic equipment

6. Key directives 1999 Landfill Directive Came into force 16 July 1999
Final compliance date 16 July 2020
Commission already reports poor compliance
2008 Waste Framework Directive
Came into force December 2008
Various compliance dates

7. Landfill targets BMW to landfill to be reduced to:
75% by weight of BMW produced in 1975
by 2010
50% by 2013
35% by 2020

8. Waste Framework Directive (1)
Key features are:
Recycling target for 2020 of 50% by weight “of at least paper, metal, plastic and glass from household and possibly other origins as far as these waste streams are similar to waste from households”

9. Waste Framework Directive (2)
Minimum 70% target for recycling non-hazardous construction and demolition waste by 2020
Hope of waste prevention targets by 2014
Waste hierarchy defined
Energy efficiency definition for recovery plants

10. The new EP: issues to take up
How are the details of the WFD being filled in?
How to follow the “regulatory committee procedure” via MEPs?
For any new laws, how are the “trialogues” going?
Are MEPs prepared to follow up on non-compliance?

11. Commission signposts “Designing out waste” – new proposals
Possible biowaste directive
Priority to defining certain end of waste criteria
Ideas for a new “Waste Implementation Agency”
Review of the landfill directive??

12. UK policy Lots of policy papers Talking up recycling
Wheel re-invention programmes
Slow to increase landfill tax
Reluctance to endorse EfW*
Paralysis and panic in face of EU targets
Prayer
*energy from waste