Etex

Etex welcomes the European Commissions initiative to develop a Circular Economy Act (CEA) as part of the Clean Industrial Deal and the Competitiveness Agenda. As a leading European manufacturer of sustainable construction materials including plasterboard, fibre cement, insulation, fire protection solutions and offsite construction Etex fully supports the ambition to accelerate circularity and resource efficiency…

Etex is a global building material manufacturer and pioneer in lightweight construction and would like to highlight several points related to the current proposal: •Level of ambition: The proposals made by the Commission seems to enhance the EU’s regulatory power in the field of construction product manufacturing and we would like to understand if the EU Commission is looking at the opportunity to create dedicated…

Etex welcomes the European Commissions work on the forthcoming Affordable Housing Act (AHA) as part of the wider European Affordable Housing Plan. We support the Commissions objective to help Member States and local authorities address housing stress by identifying the main bottlenecks to housing supply and by clarifying which measures may be justified and proportionate in the areas most affected.

We appreciate a more pro-active, harmonized and transparent market surveillance. We are active in several sectors, but predominantly the construction sector. Our positive experience in the maritime sector -in which we are also active- with full traceability from producer / factory via among others the shipyards to the vessels and vice versa seems to fucntion well and to full statisfaction of all stakeholders.