Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches de l'Industrie du Béton
CERIB
Le Cerib est un Centre Technique Industriel (CTI), centre de recherches et d’innovation.
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Lobbying Activity
Response to European Sustainability Reporting Standards
6 Jul 2023
CERIB considers that for ease of implementation, the elaboration of ESRS should be based on existing technical work developed by European and international standardisation organisations, wherever possible and in order to improve efficiency. The CSRD should also simply require the company to indicate whether it is already subject to another related reporting obligation. This would avoid an additional burden with no added value for the concerned stakeholders. In this case, the CSRD auditor could carry out the transposition work himself. However, this is a matter for the European Commission. The possibility for parent companies to fulfil reporting obligations on behalf of their subsidiaries should be provided for in a consistent and harmonised manner in the various regulations. It would be unfortunate if companies subject to CSRD/CS3D reporting obligations were to pass on, de jure or de facto, these reporting obligations to their suppliers, whether direct or indirect, through direct requests or mandatory reporting platforms. If this were to happen, a cascade effect could occur, and the whole CSRD exercise would be impaired. It is also necessary for regulatory texts to use the same definitions for entities.
Read full responseResponse to Review of the Construction Products Regulation
12 Jul 2022
Together with the representatives of French organisation Filière Béton, CERIB has carried out a careful examination of the draft revision of the Construction Products Regulation, submitted for public feedback since March 30.
While we would have liked an approach favouring an update of the current text to be adopted, we welcome in this proposed revision of the regulation the maintenance of CE marking, the strengthening of market surveillance and the use of digitisation of information. We very much welcome the fact that measures linked to the circular economy, in particular the application of eco-design, are considered in this text rather than in general texts, which will make it possible to take account of the specificities of construction.
However, we share the numerous questions and concerns this project raises about its application for the concrete sector and we ask that the many uncertainties be quickly removed in favour of a clear, consistent and predictable regulatory framework, favourable to the development of the industrial activity.
CERIB is a Study and Research Centre of public utility for the French precast concrete industry, which includes companies that manufacture precast concrete products in fixed factories for the Building, Public Works and Roads markets. It represented in 2019 500 companies (99% being SMEs) with 738 production sites, for a production of 20.9 million tons, a turnover of €2.7 billion, and more than 18,000 employees. Filière Béton brings together all the actors of the concrete industry, from extraction to products: the Federation of the Concrete Industry (FIB), the French Syndicate of the Cement Industry (SFIC), the National Syndicate of Ready-Mixed Concrete (SNBPE), the National Union of Quarry and Building Materials Industries (UNICEM) and the National Union of Aggregates Producers (UNPG)
Companies in the sector are committed to ambitious decarbonisation projects, both industrial processes and the optimisation of product implementation to reduce the carbon footprint of structures. To achieve this, they support numerous demonstrators, respond to calls for projects and invest massively in their industrial tool as well as in research & development. Our sector is firmly committed to the circular economy and territorial ecology by recovering waste and recycling concrete within concrete.
In the text and the annexes proposed by the European Commission, the actors of the concrete sector have identified numerous points of concern which are developed in the attached document.
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