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Aggregates Europe - UEPG represents aggregates producers supplying sand, gravel, crushed rock, marine aggregates, manufactured and recycled aggregates.

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Response to Circular Economy Act

5 Nov 2025

The European aggregates sector fully supports the transition towards a more circular economy that prioritizes resource efficiency, waste reduction, and the responsible management of natural materials. Across Europe, the Aggregates sector has combined its activities with environmental objectives generally, through activities such as nature restoration, water safety, climate adaptation, and biodiversity enhancement. Likewise, the sector has long contributed specifically to the circular economy through responsible sourcing, extensive recycling practices, and integrated land-use development. However, as the EU advances its circular economy ambitions, it is essential to maintain a balanced and evidence-based approach that recognizes both the opportunities and the limitations of circularity in the construction materials value chain. Even under optimistic circular scenarios, current research consistently shows that the supply of secondary construction materials will remain insufficient to meet Europe's growing demand for infrastructure and housing. Studies across Member States confirm that recycled and reused materials cannot fully close the gap., neither in terms or value nor quality. Primary raw materials will therefore remain indispensable for ensuring the continuity and safety of Europe's construction sector. Policies lust avoid creating the misconception that circularity can fully replace primary extraction. Instead, the goal should be optimal complementarity, maximising high quality reuse while securing a reliable, sustainable supply of primary materials. Different material streams have distinct characteristics, life cycles, and reuse potential. A uniform, one size fits all framework risks distorting markets and undermining efficiency. The EU should adopt a flow-based approach, tailoring circular economy measures to the specific realities of each materials flow. Targets must remain realistic and achievable, reflecting technical and economic constraints. unrealistic recycling obligations or minimum quotas for secondary materials risk generating perverse effects such as cross border import of recycled aggregates, which can lead to higher emissions and contradict climate objectives. It is also important to uphold product quality, safety, and performance. Existing European standards for construction materials must be upheld. Policies should ensure that both primary and secondary materials meet rigorous quality benchmarks, preventing both over-quality (excessive processing or costs) and under quality (performance or safety issues) from entering the market. The success of circular economy measures depends on accurate and comprehensive data on materials flows. At present, such data remains fragmented and incomplete, especially regarding secondary aggregates. The EU should therefore invest in a robust data and monitoring framework that enables policymakers and industry to make informed decisions, ensuring transparency and predictability for investment and planning. True circularity begins not with waste management but with design. Construction materials and structures should be conceived for reuse, ensuring that clean, uncontaminated value chains can facilitate the reincorporation of high-quality materials. European policies should prioritise design-for-reuse principles, stimulating innovation and collaboration across the construction value chain. Finally, the growing proliferation of sustainability and circularity labels risks creating confusion and administrative burden. The EU should ail for coherence and simplification, harmonising existing frameworks rather than adding new layers of complexity. The European aggregates sector stands ready to play a leading role in delivering a circular, resource-efficient economy. In order to succeed, the Circular Economy Act must ensure the secure supply of quality essential raw materials needed for Europe's green and resilient future.
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Response to Roadmap towards Nature Credits

30 Sept 2025

"Aggregates Europe represents the largest non-energy extractive industry with a production of 3 billion tonnes of sand, gravel, crushed rock, marine, recycled and manufactured aggregates, produced by 15,000 companies, operating 26,000 sites exclusively in Europe. We are essential to Europes economy and are the backbone of the construction industry. The aggregates sector has a track record of using natural resources in the most efficient and environmentally sustainable way, and reducing all externalities of extractive, processing, and manufacturing activities to the minimum, in compliance with strict regulatory requirements and robust environmental impact and waste management practices. Across Europe, restored and rehabilitated sites have become havens for rare species, stepping stones for ecological connectivity, and models of long-term ecological services. Our sector has shown that companies can create meaningful ecological value beyond compliance through the provision of ecosystemic and economic services in post-extraction."
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Response to Revision of the Standardisation Regulation

21 Jul 2025

Aggregates Europe Standardization Regulation Call for Evidence Statement The construction products sector and its associated materials are the backbone of all industries combined and have a central role to play in the development of standards throughout the construction value chain. Aggregates Europe fully support the standardisation and harmonization processes for construction products at an EU level. Standards are immensely important they are a reliable basis for people and organizations to use common language and expectations in relation to a product or service, to: - Facilitate trade - Provide a framework for economies, efficiencies & innovation - Exchange of information and - Enhance consumer confidence and protection. Standards are the knowledge, experience, and insight of industry experts and those who understand organizational, market and construction needs, and are the maps to guide the user when using, designing, manufacturing a product/building, managing a process, or delivering a service. The legal certainty principles being employed via the CPR are fundamentally essential, but the implementation is not practical and need to provide technical detail and guidance to aid production, buildability and safety, thus allowing high level legislation to concentrate on long term policy objectives e.g. product or building safety, or environmental protection. Creating the rules for a single market is a big challenge and it is foreseeable that it can be met by pushing through the most likely procedure for single characteristics. Discussions in CEN Technical Committees have shown, that neither the testing-laboratories industry, nor the aggregates producers, are yet ready to follow sharp increases in new testing procedures. Laboratory equipment and knowledge at national level will need to be present and operating at the required level, to be effective, keeping in mind, that test procedures need a strong statistical and empirical background, a realistic timeframe to permit the proper development of new test methods with the correct empirical base information. Aggregates Europe is concerned that the standardization regulations will take no account of voluntary contributions to standard development work, which often require an in-depth understanding of materials, processes, design and/or construction what is more time is needed for this work and cutting standards development timescales will produce unsafe and impractical standards. Finally, as Aggregates Europes membership is in the main SMEs we would request that regulations remain mindful, that mandatory technology and the use of Artificial Intelligence is not the panacea for all development and efficiency in every industry, sometimes the simple practical approach is more beneficial at ground level.
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Meeting with Joan Canton (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

25 Jun 2025 · Secure Supply of Aggregates for the EU

Meeting with Martin Hojsík (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and European Association of Mining Industries, Metal Ores & Industrial Minerals and

28 Apr 2025 · Soil monitoring law, mining areas

Response to European Water Resilience Strategy

4 Mar 2025

Water is a vital resource for ecosystems, society and the economy, making its sustainable management a key priority for the European Union and the aggregates industry. The proposed EU Water Resilience Strategy represents a timely and necessary initiative to strengthen the long-term sustainability and security of Europes water resources in the face of increasing pressures from climate change, pollution, growing demand or scarcity. The aggregates sector welcomes this initiative and fully supports the EUs ambition to enhance water resilience across all relevant policies and industries. Water Management in Quarries Water usage in the aggregates industry is a relevant part of the process and it is applied diversely, according to the needs of each extractive activity. Most existing operations now employ closed-circuit systems: used water passes through sedimentation ponds before being returned to the process. This results in extremely reduced net consumption of water. The resulting sludges are often fed back into the process or recycled as secondary products (e.g. limestone powder for agriculture and ceramics, sealing, ). The aggregates sector is in constant interaction with those River Basin Management Plans and their continued assessment to ensure the reduction and elimination of any impact to surface and groundwater. Each quarry, like any facility classified for the protection of the environment, must be the subject of prior impact assessments to evaluate the effects of its activity on the territory concerned in all its components: hydrological and hydrogeological equilibria, aquatic ecosystems, water resources and the space for the mobility of watercourses. In Europe, there are approximately 26.000 aggregates sites, nearly 60% of which carry out the washing of materials for their production. For several years, the industry has taken action to encourage aggregate producers to continuously improve: from the training of operators to the control of water consumption and improved knowledge of water streams. The use of good practices in aggregates sites to protect water quality and to minimise water consumption, through water efficiency and recycling, is widely adopted. Aggregates Europe-UEPG is willing to share with policymakers and relevant stakeholders its best practises. The European Aggregates Industry is strongly regulated and adapted to any administrative authorisation required. There, a consideration is given to the possible unfavourable ecological impact in granting the permit, and appropriate guarantees are required (and provided) for ensuring the return and improvement of the quality and state of the site location. Among those administrative processes, a water management plan (including surface and groundwater) is included in the general planning of the extraction site, setting the principles of how water will be controlled and how its quality will be preserved. As laid down in legislation, besides requiring the special authorisation needed for the river basin, it will be obligatory to put in place the necessary insurances that the environment will be restored following completion of activity as regards hydraulic, ecological and landscaping aspects. It is also important to point out that primary aggregates crushed stone, sand and gravel extracted and processed are inert. As a result, there is little risk of water being polluted by hazardous substances.
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Meeting with César Luena (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Dec 2024 · Soil Monitoring Law

Meeting with Martin Hojsík (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

21 Nov 2024 · Mining industry, soil monitoring law

Response to Initiative on EU taxonomy - environmental objective

3 May 2023

The European ecosystem of construction, and the supplier of primary and secondary construction raw materials, are already contributing to our twin green and digital transition, not least by the development of the EU Renovation Wave, the building of critical infrastructure on sustainable mobility/energy, enhancing biodiversity and restoring nature, and the prevention of natural disasters. Our sector across Europe has a track record when it comes to extracting, producing and using natural resources in the most efficient and environmentally sustainable way. As such, access to affordable finance will determine our ability to continue to invest in circular projects and in nature conservation and restoration activities. In line with the European Commissions draft Delegated Acts, and supporting Annexes on technical screening criteria for construction activities, we welcome the decision to readjust targets of minimum recycled content in concrete and other construction products from previously unfeasible rates, such as 60% proposed by the Technical Working Group of the Platform on Sustainable Finance; to 30% of secondary raw materials back into concrete in civil engineering. However, the proposed draft Delegated Act, as per Annex II, sets targets of minimum recycled content for a variety of concrete products or products using large amounts of construction raw materials. More specifically, they provide for at least 30% of re-using or recycling of concrete, natural or agglomerated stone for the construction of new buildings, at least 15% for the renovation of existing buildings, at least 30% back into concrete in civil engineering, and at least 50% of re-using or recycling of structural road elements. These targets would require an exorbitant amount of recycled construction raw materials (e.g., aggregates), which would not be available in most, if not all, EU Member States. In addition, even an incremental orientation of the construction sector towards the totality of these targets would most definitely create a competition for access to recycled materials, increasing the costs as well as the environmental footprint, due to longer transportation distances. With regards to the latter, the proposed draft Delegated Act, as per Annex II, indicate that in the case of concrete in civil engineering and of the maintenance of roads and motorways, activities would be considered sustainable as long as the re-used or recycled materials are not moved over distances greater than 2.5 times the distance between the construction site and the nearest production facility for equivalent primary raw materials. Despite the fact that for the aforementioned targets to be even remotely approached, transport distances would probably need to exceed the indicated sustainable distance, considering a potential increase of 250% in CO2 emissions due to transportation as environmentally sustainable (and preferable to the status quo) is deeply paradoxical and undermines the European Unions key objective for climate neutrality. It would potentially lead to financing transport-related CO2 emissions. Based on these arguments, we recommend that the targets outlined in Annex II with regards to construction materials do not apply in case of non-compatibility with national regulations or in case the use of secondary raw materials leads to higher CO2 emissions than the use of virgin material. (see annex). Secondary raw materials should be produced in a sustainable and cost-efficient way, used only in construction activities with the quality standards of which they comply and moved in the geographical proximity of their production as this is valid for primary raw materials. We recommend that the European Commission revises the provisions into question to reflect environmentally sustainable, technically feasible and economically viable targets. We would be interested in a meeting with the authors of the draft Delegated Act to provide further data and expertise.
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Meeting with Elena Montani (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius)

2 May 2023 · To discuss the designation of additional protected areas in the frame of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030

Response to Revision of EU Ambient Air Quality legislation

13 Mar 2023

Aggregates Europe - UEPG represents the aggregates industry companies that extract and supply quality construction raw materials in European countries, which are essential to meet demand. Aggregates Europe - UEPG supports the objectives to be achieved by the revision of this Directive, in particular with regard to the further reduction of particulate emissions. Similarly, we welcome the significant efforts that the various industrial sectors have made in recent decades with regard to air quality and want to continue in this direction at our level. We are convinced that achieving the air quality targets set by the WHO is crucial to avoid any drawbacks. The sector represented by UEPG is therefore very committed to achieving the European Union's sustainability goals. However, we would like to point out two issues that we believe are important to consider in the current review. Firstly, the non-energy extractive sector, which we represent to a very large extent, is responsible for only a very small proportion of particulate emissions. Past experience has shown us that the measures taken by national/local authorities to improve air quality and comply with the limits set in the current Air Quality Directive have disproportionately affected extractive companies and their extraction sites. We therefore advocate the introduction of the polluter pays principle and the "proportionate and appropriate response" of public authorities in the measures that need to be taken to improve air quality. It should also be taken into account that there are strong regional or territorial differences, which are related in particular to geography. For example, valleys in mountainous regions may have poorer air quality during inversion weather conditions, even though industrial (or more generally human) activity is much lower there than in other areas. We therefore believe that the territorial level of measures should take these differences into account.
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Meeting with Florika Fink-Hooijer (Director-General Environment)

8 Mar 2023 · UEPG presented their position paper on Nature Restoration Law

Meeting with Michal Wiezik (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and BUSINESSEUROPE and

11 Oct 2022 · Industrial Emissions Directive

Response to Review of the Construction Products Regulation

28 Jun 2022

UEPG Initial Response to the proposal for the revision of the Construction Products Regulations UEPG welcomes the release of the long-awaited proposal for a new Construction Products Regulation aimed at resolving the current operational issues aggregate producers are facing and modifying the Regulation in line with the objectives set by the Commission in the Green Deal. Although, some of the principles included are most welcome by the aggregates industry, there are several issues which are of high concern among our members. These concerns have been summarized as follows: Essential Characteristics (Art. 4) UEPG members would like to understand the criteria being set out by the Commission for the adoption of Delegated Acts, particularly in relation to the issuing of voluntary or mandatory essential characteristics for product families and categories and threshold levels and classes of performances. Content of the declaration of performance (Art. 11) The option to indicate "No Performance Determined” (NPD) for essential characteristics that are not relevant at the place where the construction product is placed on the market is not mentioned anymore. This option is needed to prevent unnecessary testing and financial burden for the producers. Declaration of Conformity (Art. 13) UEPG members are querying the obligation for a Declaration of Conformity in addition to existing Declarations of Performance. This extra obligation is only adding further administrative and financial burden for construction manufacturers and in particular SMEs. Additional Environmental Obligations for Manufacturers (Art. 22) Although construction manufacturers are willing to participate to the overall climate objectives set by the Commission, this article raises high concerns and needs further clarification to be implemented. Firstly, the definition and wording used need clarification ‘State of the Art’ and ‘Average’ are vague terms. Secondly, several of the obligations are not always technically feasible for some products and should by no means be described by Delegated Acts, but through Harmonized Standards detailed by technical experts. Complaint Portal (Art. 78) UEPG agrees with CPE members who are of the opinion that this kind of portal where anyone (citizen or company) can report about non-compliance of products will open the door to many problems and misuse. EU Database (Art. 78) The creation a database raises many difficulties in terms of ownership and maintenance of the information management specifically in relation to the administrative and financial burden for manufacturers. It is too burdensome given the volume of documentation required from manufacturers. Furthermore, the issue of data sharing to ‘certain authorities’ from third countries is considered problematic in relation to Intellectual Property Rights. Member State incentives (Art. 83) Incentives by Member States shall aim at the highest two (or higher) populated classes. In some Member States three classes of recycled aggregates are produced from construction and demolition waste with the “worst” class in considerable quantities. These materials can be used without doing harm if specific requirements at the place of use are met. In addition, the environmental quality can hardly be influenced by the producer of the recycled aggregates. Focussing only on the two best classes would in this case be contrary to sustainable aspects. Delegated Acts (Art.87) This article is of major concern as the Commission is empowered to change almost the whole CPR based on delegated acts which less than transparent in their adoption.   This permits the Commission the ability to constantly amend the Construction Products Regulation which would result in further legal uncertainties and difficulties for manufacturers to place their products on the market, adding a greater degree of complexity to an already complex legalisation. The empowerment given to the Commission to adopt Delegated Acts shoul
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Response to Climate change mitigation and adaptation taxonomy

18 Dec 2020

UEPG, the European Aggregates Association (www.uepg.eu) represents the producers of sand, gravel, crushed rock and recycled, manufactured and marine aggregates of which Europe needs annually 3 billion tons, produced on 26,000 sites by 15,000 companies (mostly SMEs). This makes this sector the largest non-energy extractive industry in Europe, supporting sustainable finance and the green and smart recovery of Europe's economy. Climate Change Mitigation The extraction and production of aggregates has a negligible CO2-footprint (3-5 kg CO2/ton). This could be further reduced aiming for climate-neutrality, in line with the EU climate policy ambitions, with the increased production and use of renewable energy. Machine manufactures and the European Aggregates Industry are supporting research in the electrification of machines. Climate Change Adaptation Aggregates are not critical raw materials, but essential and strategic. For instance, sand and gravel is urgently needed in the Netherlands as 27% of the country is below sea level, 55% is susceptible to flooding and 66% of the Dutch population lives in flood prone areas. Aggregates are needed for adapting Europe's coastal and river cities to new extreme weather conditions. Many aggregates producing companies operating close to rivers offer their extraction sites as retention areas to lower the peak of floods. Massively primary and secondary aggregates are required to enable the renovation wave as correctly pointed out in the EU Green Deal. What is needed, is a long-term and ambitious land-use planning policy and the facilitation of permitting procedures which could become part of a renewed EU Raw Materials Strategy. Circular economy Aggregates have a long lifespan in construction and are being re-used and recycled with high recovery rates above 70% of construction and demolition waste in most EU Member States achieving on average a 12-20% substitution rate of primary aggregates. Further efforts are being undertaken but the key message is that access to sustainably extracted primary raw materials is needed feeding into a circular economy. Protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems Sustainable aggregates extraction is compatible with biodiversity as demonstrated in several projects, such as "Life in Quarries" (http://www.lifeinquarries.eu/en/). Not only the restoration of quarries and sand/gravel extraction sites is beneficial for nature, but also active sites where operations are adapted to the needs of habitats and species. Many aggregates extraction sites have been declared Natura 2000 sites or became part of national protected areas. UEPG has collected several hundreds of cases on environmental performance of aggregates producers: https://uepg.eu/case_studies/index/start.html Aggregates producers contribute to the protection of ecosystems and related ecosystem services, such as pollinators and water management. UEPG is awarding aggregates producing companies which demonstrated innovative European best practice examples other can follow contributing to sustainable development – see UEPG Sustainable Development Awards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG9aMihdGb8 The European Aggregates Industry supports sustainable development and sustainable finance and sees great potential to make further progress in the policy areas outlined above.
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Response to EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work [2021-2027]

25 Nov 2020

European Aggregates Association (UEPG) BACKGROUND UEPG, the European Aggregates Association, represents the largest non-energy extractive industry in Europe with members in 23 countries. Aggregates are sand, gravel, crushed rock, marine aggregates, as well as secondary raw materials, such as recycled and manufactured aggregates. They are used to build Europe’s essential infrastructure including homes, roads, railways, schools, hospitals or dams. The European aggregates industry covers an annual demand of around 3 billion tonnes of aggregates, produced on 26.000 sites, by 15.000 companies, employing 200.000 people across Europe. UEPG welcomes the new EU Strategic Framework on Health & Safety at Work (2021-2027) as the improvement of health & safety situation in any workplace must be at the heart of any business in Europe. Moreover, UEPG is fully committed to advancing health & safety situation of workers, proof being that the Health & Safety Committee of UEPG has been active for more than two decades. KEY MSSAGES  The aggregates industry considers that the existing European Health and Safety at work legal framework, based on the Council Directive 89/391/EEC of 12 June 1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work, its daughter directives and, more specifically for our industry, the Directive 92/104/EEC – mineral-extracting industries of 3 December 1992 on the minimum requirements for improving the safety and health protection of workers in surface and underground mineral-extracting industries is very adequate and has allowed the control and a substantial improvement of risk management for workers.  Thanks to the existence of the UEPG Health and Safety Committee, active for more than 20 years, UEPG has established and consolidated a very active health & safety policy network. In addition, direct collaboration maintained with EU-OSHA, and with different expert forums of the European Union enabled further improvement.  In recent decades, we have seen a permanent improvement of the health & safety situation in our industry, especially with regard to lost time injuries and fatalities. UEPG is constantly monitoring these aspect through the so-called UEPG Sustainable Development Indicators Social Pillar. Every year, UEPG members respond to a short questionnaire regarding lost time injuries, fatalities and how accidents occurred.  Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) is an important issue in our industry and UEPG is a member and active contributor to the European Network on Silica, NEPSI, which is one of the first European social dialogue agreements. In the quest of pin pointing and tackling main issues of health & safety in the aggregates industry, UEPG is an initial signatory of NEPSI. Ever since, we have been actively involved in NEPSI, reporting on Key Performance Indicators since the first edition, in 2008.  As stipulated in the UEPG Vision 2020 and 2030, health & safety remains a key commitment for our industry. In this sense, UEPG began developing its own UEPG Health & Safety Tool box, a practical tool which tackles various health & safety aspects in practical terms, to help companies address those problems.  Sharing good practices. UEPG Members are constantly sharing good practices and discussing about the latest novelties in terms of health & safety in the framework of the UEPG Health & Safety Committee, which meets twice a year. Moreover, once every three years UEPG praises health & safety best practices at the UEPG Sustainable Development Awards.  Sharing accident alerts. When it comes to health & safety and especially accidents, the findings of incident reports are willingly shared across the UEPG network at the earliest opportunity, to ensure that we learn from each other, root causes are known and member organisations are able to check whether appropriate corrective and preventative measures should be taken within their operations.
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Response to EU rules on industrial emissions - revision

20 Apr 2020

BACKGROUND UEPG, the European Aggregates Association represents the largest non-energy extractive industry in Europe with members in 23 countries. Aggregates are sand, gravel, crushed rock, marine aggregates as well as secondary raw materials, such as recycled and manufactured aggregates. They are used to build Europe’s essential infrastructure including homes, roads, railways, schools, hospitals or dams. The European Aggregates Industry covers an annual demand of more than 3 billion tonnes of aggregates, produced on 26.000 sites, by 15.000 companies, employing 200.000 people across Europe. UEPG is fully committed to sustainable development with a track record, recognised by the European Commission and NGOs, of actions preserving biodiversity and the environment in general. In that respect, UEPG would like to present a few characteristics of the aggregates industry in relation to the Industrial Emissions Directive. The potential inclusion of the aggregates industry (representing the largest non-energy extractive industry) would not only be irrelevant to the purpose of the IED, it would also create cumbersome and costly procedures for permitting of an industry extracting and processing inert materials. KEY MESSAGES  Non-polluting industry: the sector is dealing mostly with inert materials and the operations in the aggregates industry are purely mechanical, without any concentration process. The extraction and processing of aggregates does not require any energy-intensive process, no thermal energy is used which results in no significant impact on the levels of pollution for air, soil or water. The NOx and SOx emissions compared to other industries is practically null. In a pledge to become even greener, the Aggregates Industry in Sweden has committed to become fossil free by 2045.  Inert extractive wastes internal management and circularity: The stripping ratio is on average <0.1:1. According to the Mining Waste Directive, most of this very low rate of non-used materials are included under the inert wastes definition and used at 100% for rehabilitation purposes in accordance with article 10 (excavation voids) and managed within a waste management plan. Aggregates sites are in the front line of implementing the Circular Economy Action Plan by minimising the generation of any kind of wastes and the consumption of water, and applying recycling techniques to waste water.  A local industry of small and medium enterprises: the vast majority of aggregates producers are SMEs with an average of 13.3 employees per company. It is a local industry with an average transport distance on road of 30-50 km.  Diversity in extraction, production and installations: there is little comparability in terms of extraction and production of aggregates since these vary depending on a series of factors: geology, >50 different types of rock, size, extraction process, treatment, technologies or the use of the final product, which may sometimes be a mixture with recycled demolition waste. Therefore, comparing installations for the use of BATs in an industry that is intrinsically diverse could negatively impact even the implementation of circularity. According to the JRC, aggregates represent 86.3% of the 30.144 European non-energy extraction sites. Other subsectors have significantly higher emission levels. Based on the precautionary and proportionality principles it would be inadequate to include the entire non-energy extractive industry in the scope of this directive.  High level of environmental protection for water: in the EU, each extraction site permitting procedure includes a hydrological study, an environmental impact assessment and is required to develop a water management plan. Moreover, independent studies demonstrate that gravel extraction lakes often have water of higher ecological quality compared to surrounding water bodies, contribute to the improvement of the water ecosystems and even to the supply for human consumption
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Meeting with Elżbieta Bieńkowska (Commissioner) and

24 Jan 2018 · Exchange of views on Industrial Policy

Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

2 May 2016 · CMD