Closing the Loop Energy Efficiency Material Savings EDITOUR PETplanet Insider Vol. 26 No. 01+02/25 www.petpla.net 17 emissions data using either a CO2 pricing system at the installation site, a mandatory emissions monitoring system at the installation site or an emissions monitoring system at the installation. However, these options will no longer be permitted from 2025. From the beginning of the year, only the EU method may be used. Furthermore, companies will be allowed to estimate 20 per cent of the total grey emissions associated with complex goods. Companies will also be able to register in the CBAM register from 2025. This will become obligatory from 2026, as from next year, only companies that are registered in the EU CBAM register will be allowed to import corresponding goods (such as steel). The corresponding portal was actually due to go live on January 1 this year. Due to delays, the EU will not go live with the CBAM register until the first quarter of 2025. The CBAM will actually come into effect from January 1, 2026, when the CBAM import duties on the ‘import of emissions’ will become due. The EU supply chain law (CSDDD) The so-called EU supply chain law, the CSDDD (Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive), has been in force since July 2024. With the CSDDD, the EU is imposing new due diligence obligations on companies. The aim of the directive is to prevent human rights violations and environmental pollution along the supply chain of European companies. The timetable for the CSDDD is as follows: EU member states have two years from the directive’s entry into force to transpose it into national law. The CSDDD must therefore be implemented by July 2026 at the latest. The most important information for companies is that the CSDDD will not apply before 2027, and then only for large companies with more than 3,000 employees. In the two following years, the EU supply chain law will then also apply to companies with more than 3,000 and 1,000 employees respectively. The EU Ecodesign Regulation The EU Ecodesign Regulation has been in force since July 2024. The EU wants to use it to make products recyclable and prevent products from being thrown away. Manufacturers are therefore subject to new regulations. The EU Commission wants to develop product-specific rules by March 2025. The first delegated act under the Ecodesign Regulation could come into force on July 19, 2025 at the earliest - one year after the regulation itself comes into force. Companies will then generally have 18 months from the entry into force of the respective delegated act to redesign their products in accordance with the regulation. All these directives and laws are part of the EU’s Green Deal, which is the EU’s contribution to the Paris Agreement, which the EU and all its countries ratified and which set the goal of keeping global warming to maximum +1.5 °C compared to preindustrial levels. The European Green Deal is the EU’s growth strategy. It was launched in 2019. With its package of policy initiatives, which set the EU on the path to a green transition, with the ultimate goal of reaching climate neutrality by 2050. We have summarised all these developments and explanations for you, dear readers, because we want to share them with you. On our Editour, we want to see how you specifically deal with these requirements, what they look like in practice: we will also be taking up your suggestions and reporting on them. It’s a broad field and it’s complex, but we think it’s important to report on it! We are very much looking forward to meeting you! https://petpla.net/2024/12/09/ the-circular-economy-tour-2025/
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