Joint Statement: Businesses call on the EU co-legislators to clarify, harmonise and simplify the Green Claims Directive to ensure the adoption of a framework safeguarding businesses’ competitiveness

by Piotr Pogorzelski | Feb 28, 2025 | Sustainability and Circularity

EU policymakers are urged to carefully evaluate options to simplify, clarify and streamline the Green Claims Directive during negotiations, through the lens of the simplification and competitiveness agenda. The introduction of proportionality and legal predictability...

EPRC Monitoring Report 2023

by Piotr Pogorzelski | Jul 31, 2024 | Sustainability and Circularity

The EPRC monitoring report 2023 is available here.

Press release: In a very difficult context, pulp and paper industry has shown resilience in 2023

by Piotr Pogorzelski | Jul 9, 2024 | Industry Statistics, Media Resources, Sustainability and Circularity

In an economic context that continues to be exceptionally difficult and marked in 2023 by low consumption linked to massive destocking, many pulp and paper companies have seen a turnover decrease in the past year. A record high annual recycling rate indicates the...

Press release: The Council presents its to-do list for Europe’s competitiveness, making bioeconomy a priority for the next Commission

by Piotr Pogorzelski | May 24, 2024 | Media Resources, Sustainability and Circularity

In its last meeting before the EU elections, the European Competitiveness Council presented today what could be considered as its guidelines for the upcoming Commission on how to keep Europe from an industrial decline. The plan entails supporting industries which have...

Press release: New EU packaging rules are almost here. For the pulp and paper industry, legal certainty is a good thing.

by Piotr Pogorzelski | Apr 24, 2024 | Media Resources, Sustainability and Circularity

The pulp and paper industry welcomes today’s vote at the EU Parliament on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) that supports the trilogue agreement and avoids delaying the legislative process. The last step will be a final confirmation of the...

Press release: EU hails biotech & biomanufacturing as ‘most promising tech area of the century’ as sector’s innovation leaders meet in Brussels

by Piotr Pogorzelski | Mar 20, 2024 | Energy Transition and Green Deal, Forest Resources, Industry Transformation, Media Resources, Product Innovation, Sustainability and Circularity

The European Commission released today a communication on ‘Boosting biotechnology and biomanufacturing in the EU’. The publication was a positive sign for the members of the Circular Choices coalition, a group of 20 EU trade associations representing providers of...