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

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!

Non-profit association Avfall Sverige, wholly ownedservice 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 operationalactivities, supported by working groups, developmentcommittee et al

Governance

Avfall Sverige’s core values

Sustainable

Social responsibility

Environmentally sound

LONG TERM

DEVELOPMENTALVIABLE

GENERATIONS

CO-OPERATIONRELIABLE

FAIR

WELFARE, CARE

SOUND

SAFETY

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Swedish Waste Management

Municipalities are responsible for the collection and treatment of household waste, excl producerresponsibility material

The responsibility and the performance is organized in several different ways

Municipalities and their companies are also handling commercial waste

Waste trend 2013

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

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…

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

Municipal waste management is a Service of General Interest (SGI)Responsibility of local and regional authorities

for municipal waste managementSubsidiarity principleProtection of human health and the

environmentContinuity, quality and coverage of the serviceNo “cherry picking”Engaging the public towards waste prevention

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

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

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

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

80% RuleThe 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

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)

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

What can we expect?

Material base and scarce resources Product control and ecodesign Focus on landfill reduction More room for EfW

Our/MWE wish list

Agree on the ambition but… Clear definitions and calculation Clear measuring point ”R2”-formula for recycling Requirements for EPR

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Weine WiqvistAvfall SverigeProstgatan 2, SE-211 25 Malmö+46 (0)40 356 605 +46 (0)70 893 1599weine.wiqvist@avfallsverige.sewww.avfallsverige.setwitter.com/#!/avfallsverigefacebook.com/sveriges.storsta.miljororelse