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Sappi Europe

Sappi Europe SA is committed to collaborating and partnering with stakeholders – we aim to be a trusted and sustainable organisation with an exciting future in woodfibre.

Lobbying Activity

Response to Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act

8 Jul 2025

Sappi Europe welcomes the Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act and this opportunity to provide input. The EU Clean Industrial Deal rightly asserts that decarbonisation and industrial competitiveness go hand in hand. While this is valid in the long term, aligning climate goals with competitive industrial production remains challenging in the short to medium term. There is a role for IDAA to support European industries to manage the high upfront investment costs for decarbonization projects, while they concurrently navigate high energy costs, political uncertainty and market dynamics that are often indifferent and not willing to compensate for emission-reduced products. The proposed Industry Decarbonisation Accelerator Act can play a vital role by facilitating investment, addressing energy access and boosting demand for clean, low-emission products made in the EU. The inclusion of the pulp and paper industry within IDAA is essential to ensure the industry can continue to provide innovative, renewable, bio-based products to the European market while continuing to contribute to Europes climate goals. Please refer to Sappi Europe's attached position paper for our input.
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Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and European farmers and

14 Mar 2024 · High level dialogue on forest-based bioeconomy

Response to Review of the requirements for packaging and feasibility of measures to prevent packaging waste

24 Apr 2023

Sappi, a leading provider of renewable fibre-based products, supports the goals of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) proposal. However, we offer the following suggestions to improve the proposal: - We recommend that the proposal be evaluated against the Innovation Principle to increase the role of innovation. - We advise the consideration of national conditions for re-use and recycling while maintaining the format of a directive, which would provide greater flexibility for Member States to adopt the measures. - We suggest placing the emphasis on reuse and recycling as complementary rather than mutually exclusive options. - We recommend avoiding the use of mandatory recycled content requirements for products that already have a well-functioning market with high recycling rates. - We call for transparency and involvement of the industry in drafting secondary legislation. By implementing these suggestions, we believe the PPWR will be better positioned to achieve its ecological objectives while maintaining competitiveness and innovation in the industry. Please find our detailed feedback in the attached letter.
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Meeting with Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

15 May 2020 · carbon neutrality and biodiversity

Response to Commission Regulation amending the CLP Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 and correcting Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/669

8 Feb 2019

Sappi is a leading global provider of sustainable woodfibre products and solutions. We produce annually 1.1 million tonnes of totally chlorine free woodfibre pulp (TCF) in 4 EU countries. In line with our objective to minimize the use of hazardous chemicals, we have been exploring viable alternatives to DTPA for a long time, without remarkable success. We kindly call for delaying the reclassification process of DTPA until the evaluation of all available knowledge on developmental toxicity has been finalized. For us it seems that arguments for reclassification that are based on in vivo studies on rats would need to be re-evaluated in light of new comparative information about the zinc homeostatic regulation in rats vs. humans. We are particularly refering to ARTS, Josje, et al. in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 2018. We admit that we are not in the position to assess this information or to make statements about it. Our position is that due to the significance of the issue on our industry, the reclassification decision should not be made based on the precautionary principle before also this new information has been properly assessed. The use of DTPA brings significant advantages to the organoleptic properties of paper based packaging as well as to the efficiency of pulp bleaching process. A reclassification decision would shift the pulp mills towards more inefficient use of bleach chemicals as well as towards lowered quality of paper based food packaging. Especially for us, in our position of being one of the world’s biggest producers of totally chlorine free pulp, a reclassification of DTPA would lead to increased use of chemicals and energy. Reclassification of DTPA would mean an additional disadvantage to totally chlorine free pulp (TCF) compared to chlorine dioxide bleached pulp (ECF).
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