Circularity is an essential part of a wider transformation of industry towards climate-neutrality and long-term competitiveness. It can deliver substantial material savings throughout value chains and production processes, generate extra value and unlock economic opportunities. In synergy with the objectives laid out in the Industrial Strategy, the Commission will enable greater circularity in industry by: 

• assessing options for further promoting circularity in industrial processes in the context of the review of the Industrial Emissions Directive, including the integration of circular economy practices in upcoming Best Available Techniques reference documents;
• facilitating industrial symbiosis by developing an industryled reporting and certification system, and enabling the implementation of industrial symbiosis;
• supporting the sustainable and circular biobased sector through the implementation of the Bioeconomy Action Plan;
• promoting the use of digital technologies for tracking, tracing and mapping of resources;
• promoting the uptake of green technologies through a system of solid verification   by registering the EU Environmental Technology Verification scheme as an EU certification mark.

The new SME Strategy will foster circular industrial collaboration among SMEs building on training, advice under the Enterprise Europe Network on cluster collaboration, and on knowledge transfer via the European Resource Efficiency Knowledge Centre.

Source: European Commission

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