The Ministry of the Environment has published its intention to prepare a law by the end of 2023, which will guarantee the fulfilment of European targets in the field of packaging waste management (hereinafter PPWR) on behalf of the state, not on behalf of individual companies or municipalities. It will probably be effective from 2025.
In the newly introduced Recovery Package, the government proposes "...to move the collection, transport and landfilling of municipal waste to the standard VAT rate (21%)... "The CABH confirms that this VAT increase is another signal to divert waste from landfills. If this is indeed the case, in the short and medium term, the reform of public finances will contribute to the development of the circular economy in the Czech Republic and its essence: better use of raw [...]
FEAD, the European Waste Management Association, representing the private waste and resource management industry across Europe, welcomes the opportunity to comment on the EU's environmental taxonomy and the EU's ambition to drive investment to achieve its climate and environmental goals. The EU is at the global forefront of the fight against climate change and the most ambitious environmental legislation [...]
Last week, the Chamber of Deputies debated an amendment to the government's amendment on local fees. The proposing MPs from different coalition parties are trying to take into account inflation, energy prices and the rising landfill tax by moving the maximum amount of waste charges. If the government's bill passes the legislative process, it is expected to take effect from 1 January 2024.
The area of bio-waste and its management is important for many environmental and economic reasons. That is why the Czech Association of Circular Economy is preparing its own draft decree which will add this area to the already completed "Decree on the determination of conditions under which solid fuel from waste ceases to be waste" (in short "TAP Decree"). Landfilling of bio-waste is expensive for the [...]
We gave our podcast a new name #ZACYKLENO and invited Mirek Topolánek to talk about circularity. How he sees the EU's taxonomy, why it's taking so long to end landfill, what the recycling industry needs, and the desperate lack of impact studies on the directives being passed. Listen: https://bit.ly/3A62ZhZ. We filmed at the sustainable space Green Table in Prague's Florentinum with Petr Špičák. "It's a return to the roots," agreed [...]
Last week, new regulations to meet climate protection targets were approved in Brussels. The new measures, including charging for emissions from heating buildings and from road transport, are planned over the long term to improve the environment and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There are economic impacts of this new regulation, such as making petrol and diesel about three [...]
Thanks to the simultaneous efforts to divert bio-waste from landfills and to increase self-sufficiency in the production of gaseous fuels, BPS projects are being developed (as a complement to the activities of municipal services companies in cities such as Prague and Brno). EFG Rapotín BPS EFG, a member of the ČAObH, has been involved in BPS and biomethane for a long time. EFG Rapotín BPS was founded in [...]
The draft Decree of the Ministry of the Environment setting out the conditions under which solid fuel from waste and fuel from waste biomass cease to be waste is in the inter-ministerial comment procedure. A brief history of the proposal: After two attempts in the summer of 2018 and in May 2022, we have a high-quality draft with nine paragraphs, three annexes and a proposed effective date of [...]
Brussels, 17 February 2023 - Some stakeholders believe that mixed waste sorting systems prior to thermal treatment and disposal is the silver bullet that will allow the waste management sector to achieve the EU's circular economy objectives. This is the result of a recent study published on 16 February 2023 , and reflected in some [...]
