EMAS as a Nest to Help And Nurture the Circular Economy
ENHANCE High-Level Dissemination Event / Plenary Session
September 17th, from 14:00 h – 16.00 h through the Microsoft TEAMS platform.
The overall objective of Interreg Europe ENHANCE project (EMAS as a Nest to Help And Nurture the Circular Economy), is to improve the implementation of regional policy instruments oriented to increasing the efficiency in the use of resources by the exchange of experiences and practices on supporting EMAS (Eco-management and Audit scheme) registration. Partners from Austria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Andalusia and Catalonia as leader partner, participate in the project.
ENHANCE project has identified regulatory relief and incentives that should help many organisations to implement EMAS strategically as a very competitive tool for the transition to a circular economy. ENHANCE project, is positioned therefore as a boost and an opportunity to encourage organizations, especially SMEs, to the transition towards a circular economy model.
The ENHANCE High-level Dissemination Event in its Plenary Session, will have a strategic nature, and it is intended to give a vision of the projection that the actions developed by the project may have both at the level of administrations and organizations.
In this Plenary Session, we also have space for the evaluation of the actions and the debate through the TEAMS chat, to take advantage of synergies to increase the visibility and added value that EMAS brings to the organizations.
PROGRAMME
Moderator: Maria Passalacqua: Director of Club EMAS Catalonia
14:00-14:05 Welcome
Ms. Mercè Rius
General Director of Environmental Quality and Climate Change
Ministry of Territory and Sustainability , Government of Catalonia
14:05– 14:15 EMAS in the context of the European Green Deal
Mr. Kęstutis Sadauskas,
Director of Circular Economy & Green Growth
Directorate-General for Environment
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
14:15-14:25 Presentation of Interreg Europe Programme: state of play
Mr. Erwin Siweris
Programme Director, Interreg Europe
14:25-14:30 Overview of Interreg Europe ENHANCE project
Ms. Maria José Sarrias
Head of the Service of Environmental Qualification
Ministry of Territory and Sustainability , Government of Catalonia
14:30-15:15 Strategic results of the project
- “The Catalonia Action Plan: strategic projection”
Mr. Josep Maria Masip, Head of the Section of Qualification System
Ministry of Territory and Sustainability, Government of Catalonia
- “The impact and results of Andalusian EMAS Action Plan”
Ms. Inmaculada Tola, Planning Office
General Directorate for Environmental Quality and Climate Change , Regional Government of Andalusia
- "EMAS as a tool toward circular GPP: ENHANCE project in Italy"
Mr. Tiberio Daddi, Assistant professor
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies-SSSA.
- “Improving resource efficiency in Estonian companies as a result of ENHANCE project“
Mr. Harri Moora, Programme Director of Environmental Management Programme
SEI Tallinn, Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre
- “Environmental awareness of public authorities”
Ms. Jana Sajdoková, Environmental Labelling Specialist
CENIA, Czech Environmental Information Agency
- “The results of the Austrian EMAS Action Plan”
Ms. Monika Brom, Deputy head of unit
Environment Agency Austria
15:15-15:25 What’s next beyond the ENHANCE? Let’s try to involve EMAS in the European policy context
Ms. Friederike Detry
EMAS policy officer
Directorate-General for Environment
Sustainable Production, Products & Consumption
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
15:25- 15:50 Discussion and Interaction with participants (questions via chatbox)
15:50-16:00 Closure of the event
Ms. Maria Passalacqua
Director of Club EMAS Catalonia
