Transposition of the new Packaging Directive is already five months late. Failure to adopt the amendment to the Packaging Act means a new legislative process, including commenting procedures. This will delay transposition by at least another year. From an EU point of view, it is significant that while a delay in transposition is tolerated if the transposition standard is in the parliamentary process, it is never tolerated if transposition is not [...]
The Czech Association of the Circular Economy (ČAObH) and the Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic (SMO CR) issued a joint press release. In it, they call on MPs to correct the situation where recycling is double-taxed by approving Jan Řehounek's amendment. According to the proposal, the provision of municipal waste management services by municipalities has been included among the activities subject to VAT.
Four bills on waste management have arrived in the Senate for consideration. This should finally bring to a close one phase of our work in the Association, when we have been pushing elements of the circular economy into the laws and trying to speed up the process of limiting landfilling and its disadvantage compared to recycling as much as possible. We are already working on the next phase. In September, at a meeting of the members of the [...]
Landfilling is still the most cost-effective way to dispose of waste in the Czech Republic. We are the cheapest country in Europe in this respect, says Miloš Kužvart, Executive Director of the Czech Association of Circular Economy: So that waste does not end up with zero value.pdf
On 1 October 2020, at the invitation of the Director of the Waste Management Department of the State Environmental Fund Ing. Miloš Kužvart, Executive Director of ČAObH and a representative of one of the founding members of ČAObH, VEOLIA, represented by Ing. Veolia By-products ČR, s.r.o. Together with the Director of [...]
The CABH has been working to put the circular economy into practice since 2016. "Our first concrete goal was to put an end to landfilling and to put it where it belongs in the waste hierarchy - at the tail end," says Miloš Kužvat, Executive Director of the ČAObH. This has been achieved with the forthcoming Waste Act, which contains 80% of all the proposals and comments that the ČAObH has developed. [...]
Buildings and construction products require significant amounts of energy and raw materials and therefore the EU should focus on the following areas: 1) Strengthening the management of construction - demolition - renovation waste: construction products must be designed, manufactured and used in a way that ensures the sustainable use of natural resources and promotes recycling and/or reuse [...]
We can give up coal power, but the rotting bio component of landfilled waste creates huge quantities of greenhouse gases. In the long term, we are being unfair to climate protection by landfilling," says former Environment Minister and now Executive Director of the Czech Association of Circular Economy, Miloš Kužvart, PhD. Try to guess what percentage of waste produced in the country ends up in landfills without further use. Ten, twenty [...]
At the time of the covid 19 crisis, it was necessary to coordinate forces as much as possible. It is the strength of associations such as the CAObH that shows its importance in such situations, and associations are a tangible support to their members. CAObH thanks all members for their cooperation not only during the coronavirus crisis. In the attachment you can read the thank you letter that CAObH received from Pražské služeb, a.s.
The second reading of the government's waste bills, the Packaging Act, the law on selected end-of-life products and the so-called Amendment Act is an example of how legislators can make a very positive contribution to the government's proposals. This Wednesday, at a meeting of the House Economic Affairs Committee, amendments were adopted that mark a breakthrough on the road to a circular economy. By a large majority of the voting members of the [...]
