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Environmental Compliance Assistance Programme for SMEs – and beyond
Imola BedőDG Environment C1 – Sustainable Production and Consumption Unit
Potential = Business
• 23bn GBP23/ year potential savings for British enterprises – efficiency measures without or with little investment
• Providing resource efficiency and environmental services: eco-industries leading• 3.4 million fulltime job equivalents• Renewable energies: growing area• Leading market shares in water management (30%),
sustainable mobility (35%), green power generation (40%), waste management and recycling (50%), material and resource efficiency (10%)
We’d want SMEs to see that…
• … it’s more than treehugging
• Business reality, competitiveness issue, new opportunities
• … but many SMEs don’t seem to see • 70% thinks they don’t have impact on the environment• 0,4% has a certified EMS• Short term focus• Lack of time, expertise
in need of support, advice
Lack of awareness on environmental legislationLack of expertise to understand legislationThe cost of compliance is relatively higher
Lack of time and expertise to understand issuesLack of clear, simple information
Lack of time and expertise to implement environmental measures
Lack of financial resources to address environmental issues
Betterregulation
Targetedinformation
Tailor-madeEMS
Targetedfunding
Localexpertise
ECAP
Some tools
CHANGE – IEEAdvising SMEs on
energyLCA to goLCA tool
development for SMEs
SustainGraph – LIFE+Development of an e-tool to
help improve the performance of EU graphic SMEs
EMAS Easy 123 Environnement
ShoeLawEnviornmental
compliance - diagnosis
National Industrial Symbiosis Programme
Advice to SMEs
Roadmap to Resource efficiency
Food MobilityBuildings
70 - 80% of total impacts
Water
Clean air
Soil
Materials
Marine resources
Key
res
ourc
es
Policies in the life cycle
Waste
Design
Pro-duction
Distribution
Use
Collection
Reuse, recycling
Natural resources
Natural resources Better
products
Efficient production
More intelligent consumption
Waste and recycling
Roadmap and SMEs
Support networking and exchange of best practice between agencies providing resource efficiency assistance to SMEs
Corresponding MS recommendation: Ensure that advice and support is available to help SMEs identify and improve their resource efficiency and sustainable use of raw materials (continuous);
Policies and regulation
Demonstrationprojects,
partnerships
Standards &performance
targets
Finance andsupport to SMEs
Internationalcooperation
New skillsand jobs
Europeaninnovation
partnerships
Barriers
Uncertainty of demand
Uncertainty of return on investment (or too long pay-back)
Lack of funds
Insufficient access to subsidies or fiscal incentives
Lack of external financing
Next FP7 Call: July 2012
Priorities:waste, waste treatment, drinking water, construction materials and insulation of buildings
H2020 financial
perspective (grants, equity,
credits), ETV system
bilateral environmental dialogue; network of eco-innovators (UNEP); technology transfer to developing countries
Flagship:An agenda for EU skills and jobs
Grouping institutions,
experts, stakeholders for
fast-track solutionsIdentified priorities:
raw materials, water
Action 4: focus on SME needs Increase trust in eco-innovation outcomes -ETV
a voluntary scheme to certify the eco-innovative aspect of technologies, products or services (active in BE, CZ, DK, FI, FR, PL, UK)
Faster investment and finance - network of financiers: EC Commission will launch a call for proposal to set up a network of green financiers for better uptake of eco-innovation (financed under CIP eco-innovation, 2012-13)
EU Regional funds: "Smart specialisation strategies"
The possibility to create new financial instruments in support of eco-innovation is being explored - EU Loan & Guarantee Service (policy and market driven) and an Equity Instrument for research and innovation (start-up and growth phase)
• strengthen the role of eco-innovation• provide financial means for the implementation of the
EcoAP (2014-20) mainly through:
Societal Challenge “Climate Action and Resource Efficiency,
including Raw Materials”3160 million € proposed total funding
Useful links
• SMEs & environmental policy: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme
• ECAP Forum: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/forums/ECAP/
• ECAP Helpdesk: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/helpdesk/index_en.htm
• EMAS website: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/emas/index_en.htm
• EMAS Easy methodology: http://www.emas-easy.eu/
• Development of EMAS sectoral reference documents:
http://susproc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/activities/emas/index.html
• Life+: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/
• CIP eco-innovation: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eco-innovation/
• JEREMIE: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/funds/2007/jjj/index_en.htm
• SME techweb (FP7): http://ec.europa.eu/research/sme-techweb/index_en.cfm
• Enterprise Europe Network: http://www.enterprise-europe-network.ec.europa.eu/
• Money back through the window: http://www.environmental-savings.com/
• ENTR study on SMEs and environment:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/business-environment/environmental-challenge/index_en.htm
• Study on the competitiveness of eco-industries:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=3769&tpa_id=203&lang=en
• Eco-innovation Observatory http://www.eco-innovation.eu/
• Ecopol project http://www.ecopol-project.eu/ ;
• ETV pilot: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/etv/etv_preprog.htm