The consultation on one of the key documents, the Sustainable Investment Regulation (Taxanomy), is currently underway. This document will significantly influence technological developments in the areas of waste and water management and the direction of legislative documents and the provision of EU funding.
In this context, the CABH considers it essential that we join forces to promote the interests of the Czech Republic in the final form of the document. The CABH is already doing so independently, but also through the European association FEAD.
From our expert point of view, we would like to identify the most important areas:
1) Sustainable and modern waste and water management must be perceived as activities that make a major contribution to the transition to a circular economy and should be promoted as such and their representatives invited to contribute to the development of the relevant national strategy (Article 13)
2) Anaerobic digestion applicable to sewage sludge and biowaste must become an integral part of the technological mix for the recovery of this broad group of wastes. Not only the construction of plants should be encouraged, but also the use of the outputs of the technology, namely the associated energy and digestate (fugate)
(Annex I, Articles 5.6 and 5.7).
3) Waste from sorting or pre-treatment facilities that meet the prerequisites for real recovery should be classified as material recovery, as well as sorted waste for treatment into certified alternative fuel for heat production facilities (Annex I, Article 5.9).
4) Chemical recycling cannot be seen as a substitute for the material recovery of plastics, but a set of technologies and techniques that allow the recovery of a group of plastics that cannot be used in any other way. However, in any case, chemical recycling with appropriate certified outputs should be included in the supported technologies (Annex I, Article 3.16)
In Prague, 18 January 2021
