Weine Wiqvist, Managing Director of Avfall Sverige & President of Municipal Waste Europe

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1 Weine Wiqvist, Managing Director of Avfall Sverige & President of Municipal Waste Europe

2 Avfall Sverige Expert organization, public waste management & recycling sector Front runner waste management field Competence World class infrastructure Members of Cewep, ECN, ISWA, Municipal Waste Europe Environmental and social benefits Ensures long term work according to the waste hierarchy Zero waste!

3 Governance Non-profit association Avfall Sverige, wholly owned service company Avfall Sverige AB Funding: membership fees revenues from sales of training, reports etc. development fee The annual meeting elects the Board Municipal members have voting rights CEO and secretariate manages the operational activities, supported by working groups, development committee et al

4 Avfall Sverige s core values LONG TERM DEVELOPMENTAL VIABLE Sustainable GENERATIONS SOUND Environment ally sound CO-OPERATION SAFETY RELIABLE FAIR Social responsibility RESOURCE MANAGEMENT WELFARE, CARE

5 Swedish Waste Management Municipalities are responsible for the collection and treatment of household waste, excl producer responsibility material The responsibility and the performance is organized in several different ways Municipalities and their companies are also handling commercial waste

6 Waste trend 2013

7 Current issues Circular economy Producer responsiblity on packaging Textile waste EU Waste Framework Directive Procurement and Concession Directive Swedish EPA proposed new recycling targets Municipal Law Review Energy Commission

8 MWE members: 17 national public waste associations EU Municipalities and their public waste management companies Municipalities are responsible for the recovery of resources from households Membership growing: Slovenia, Poland, Lithuania

9 Municipal Responsibility Municipalities have the ultimate responsibility to provide waste management to their citizens - Service of General Interest Implementation of existing legislation Municipal Waste Europe was created in 2009 to represent municipal daily reality and needs Freedom of choice to organise and invest Exchange experiences Your voice in Brussels

10 Municipal waste management is a Service of General Interest (SGI) Responsibility of local and regional authorities for municipal waste management Subsidiarity principle Protection of human health and the environment Continuity, quality and coverage of the service No cherry picking Engaging the public towards waste prevention

11 Revised EU Directive on Public Procurement Results and implications 80% of activities carried out by the contracting authorities above which the Directive does not apply In-House: (Art. 11) In-house procurement is allowed, including inter-municipal cooperation. Criterion of public control over the public company(ies) Exception to the application of the Directive for legally enforced forms of private participation Clarifies the freedom of local authorities to define Services of General Economic Interests (SGEI) as well as their financing

12 New EU Directive on Concessions Results and implications 80% of activities carried out by the contracting authorities above which the Directive does not apply Excludes contracts granted on the basis of exclusive rights from the application of the Concession Directive Underlines the freedom of public authorities to perform the public service tasks conferred on them by using their own resources, which includes the possibility of cooperation with other public authorities

13 In-House Procurement (Art. 11) In-house procurement is allowed, including inter-municipal cooperation: In-house can be conducted by the municipality directly or by a company owned by the municipality Decisions are made easier: Direct implementation without calls for tender (no costly, complex technical analyses of bids or time wasted) What to collect, how and with what frequency How to communicate to citizens How to further treat the recyclables and residual waste

14 In-House Procurement Results: Ability to adapt rapidly to new decisions Effective waste collection system, convenient to citizens Direct control Income from the sale of materials, energy (biogas/efw) In the case of inter-municipal cooperation: shared investment costs reduce overall cost per citizen

15 80% Rule The rule states: 80% of the waste managed by an in-house operation must belong to that municipality or group of cooperating municipalities Only 20% of the waste can be commercial or industrial waste for which there is open competition An exclusive right rule can give the municipality the right to treat all waste fitting the definition of municipal and similar waste, which is generated in their municipality

16 How to cope with the 80% rule Re-integration into a municipal entity (one or several municipalities) Adjust market production so that 80% in-house can be achieved Divide owned company in two subsidiaries (one for true in-house and another one for the market ) Use the horizontal cooperation the Hamburg case)

17 News from the EU Scrapping of proposal on CE and WFD A new package to the end of the year DG Growth main driver + DG Environment

18 What can we expect? Material base and scarce resources Product control and ecodesign Focus on landfill reduction More room for EfW

19 Our/MWE wish list Agree on the ambition but Clear definitions and calculation Clear measuring point R2 -formula for recycling Requirements for EPR

20 Contact Adress Teleph one Mobile Hemsida Twitter Facebook Weine Wiqvist Avfall Sverige Prostgatan 2, SE Malmö +46 (0) (0) twitter.com/#!/avfallsverige facebook.com/sveriges.storsta.miljororelse