Circular Economy Action Plan Revision of Fertilisers Regulation DG GROW Recycle Nutrients for Clear Waters Forum for Action, Helsinki, 20 April 2016
Apr 11, 2017
Circular Economy Action Plan
Revision of Fertilisers Regulation
DG GROW
Recycle Nutrients for Clear WatersForum for Action, Helsinki,20 April 2016
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From a Linear Economy…DISPOSEMAKETAKENATURAL
RESOURCES
WASTEWASTEWASTE
…to a Circular Economy
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The Fertilisers Regulation in the context of Circular Economy Action plan
The objectives
• Making Fertilisers more sustainable• Promote recycling of nutrients and boost the market
for secondary raw materials
The Potential of domestic bio-waste for market of fertilising products
• Substitution of mined or synthetic fertilisers by biomass or bio-wastes based fertilisers:• Nitrogen: +3% market share by 2025• Phosphorus: +14%• Potash: +22%
88%
12%
P2O5 in 2015Inorganic nutrientsOrganic nutrients
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Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen, responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment andCompetitiveness (17 March 2016): "Very few of the abundant bio-waste resources are transformed into valuable fertilising products. Our farmers are using fertilisers manufactured from imported resources or from energy-intensive processes although our industry could valorise these bio-wastes in recycled nutrients.This Regulation will help us turn problems into opportunities for farmers and businesses."
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The Fertilisers Regulation creates a level playing field for all fertilising products
• CE-marked fertilising products will be subject to similar rules under the new legislative framework
• Quality, Safety and Labelling requirements• Conformity assessment procedures
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Component Material Categories
Product FunctionCategories
CMC 1: Non-polymer virgin materialsCMC 2: Simple plant parts or extractsCMC 3: CompostCMC 4: Energy crop digestateCMC 5: Other digestateCMC 6: Food industry by-products CMC 7: Micro-organismsCMC 8: Agronomic additivesCMC 9: Nutrient polymers
PFC1 - Fertiliser (A) Organic
(I) Solid
(II) Liquid
(B) Organo-mineral(C) Inorganic
PFC2 – Liming material
PFC3 – Soil Improver (A) Organic
(B) Inorganic
PFC4 – Growing medium
PFC5 – Agronomic additive(A) Inhibitor
(B) Chelating agent
PFC6 – Plant Biostimulant (A) Microbial
(B) Non-Microbial
PFC7 – Fertilising product blend
A CE marked fertiliser is composed of…. A CE marked fertilising product belongs to….
CMC 10: Other polymersCMC 11: Animal By-products
(I) Solid
(II) Liquid
(I) Macronutrient
(II) Micronutrient
(C) Complexing agent
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Issues related to recycled nutrients
• Technological aspect: • Available technologies from lab to industrial scale.• Varying quality and not acceptable input materials
(okay for composts, digestates, processed manure, other animal by-products)
• Safety aspect: "End-of-waste criteria" providing rules for leaving waste status (now composts, digestates; later, ashes, struvite, biochar)
• Acceptability for all national legislators (if CE-marked)
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Optional harmonisation• Member States may allow other fertilisers on their markets
without the CE marking• Political choice of new COM driven by subsidiarity principle• We reserve harmonise rules for products :
• where scientific consensus exists, • where need to freely circulate exists
• Less market disruptive: CE-products compete with national ones
• Leave room for innovation for recycling nutrients: first, test your business case at national level, then, work on EU harmonisation if opportunity exists.
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Thank you for your attention !
European CommissionDG GrowthUnit D2 - Chemicals Industry Unit F.2