Citeo

Citeo would like to provide feedback to the European Commission in order to leverage its expertise in the circular economy for the development of ambitious, pragmatic Circular Economy Act that can ensure a competitive and circular European economy.

Citeo is the French company in charge of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for household packaging and graphic papers. Citeo welcomes the EC proposal to provide harmonized rules on substantiation, communication, verification of voluntary green claims at European level.

Citeo strongly welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the initiative undertaken by the European Commission to propose a new legislation on substantiating green claims, aiming at enhancing environmental performance of products and businesses.

Citeo supports the European Commissions ambition to establish a robust and coherent regulatory framework that advances environmental objectives while strengthening the business case for companies operating in the European Union.

Citeo welcomes the publication of the methodology of calculating the integration of recycled content with mass balance approach, which is essential for the development of an EU secondary material markets. We underline the following points: Support for the prioritization of mechanical recycling where quality allows, while recognizing the complementary role of chemical recycling to improve overall recycling…

Citeo underlines the risk of misunderstanding and legal uncertainty with the existence of definitions of recycled plastic in two legal instruments. In order to calculate the weight of the beverage bottle, Citeo believes all the components should be taken into account and not only the plastic parts of the beverage bottles.