#ECESP weekly highlights 🧐 pre-summer edition

What’s been happening?

The EU Council adopted the Nature Restoration Law, intended to safeguard and bolster biodiversity. Now it’s up to the Member States to implement it.

New submissions on ECESP

This week, we’ve published items on:

• the 6th European Recycling Conference: Recycling Today, Resourcing Tomorrow, taking place on 26 September in Milan
• a webinar on 25 June on Towards the Twin Transition in the European Manufacturing Industry

• Recommendations from the German Council for Sustainable Development to the German Federal Government regarding the transformation to a circular economy
• the Report on the findings of the first 11 projects to use OFRA’s Second Life Furniture mark

• The family of ISO standards on the circular economy:

1. ISO 59004:2024 Circular economy — Vocabulary, principles and guidance for implementation
2. ISO 59020:2024 Circular economy — Measuring and assessing circularity performance
3. ISO 59010:2024 Circular economy — Guidance on the transition of business models and value networks. 

These three standards from the International Organization for Standardization offer a complete toolkit for achieving a circular economy, from principles to measurement.

• the recordings of Circular Cities’ series of eight webinars on circular issues, from Local circular economy strategies & circular food systems to Leveraging public procurement to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.

Thank you, and keep your submissions coming in!