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Ref. Ares(2020)639871 - 01/02/
Ref. Ares(2022)110688 - 07/01/2022 2020
To: 
SADAUSKAS Kestutis (ENV); 
 (ENV); 
 (ENV); 
 (ENV); 
 (ENV); 
 (ENV); 
 
 (ENV) 
Cc: 
 (ENV); 
 (ENV) 
Subject: 
Flash Report - meeting VKU on EPR (SUP), 29 January 2020 (DG ENV) 
Attachments: 
INFA_presentation_Brussels.pdf 
 
Flash Report - meeting with VKU on Extended Producer Responsibility under the SUP Directive, costs of 
public waste collection and litter clean-up; 
Participants: COM (DG ENV, B3): 



 ; VKU
 
 

INFA

 
 
On the 29 January 2020, DG ENV (B.3) met with VKU, an organisation of municipal waste enterprises in 
Germany, to discuss the issue of Extended Producer Responsibility (‘EPR’) under the SUP Directive to 
cover costs of public waste collection and litter clean up
. The Commission, supported by an external 
contractor (IEEP, in the context of the SUP support study) is preparing guidelines for the establishment 
of EPR schemes under the Directive (Art. 8). VKU has commissioned a study to develop a methodology 
to determine the costs of collecting waste from public collection systems and cleaning up operations in 
municipalities (developed by INFA - waste and waste management institute). 
 
INFA presented the preliminary findings of their study (see attached presentation). In particular, they 
seek confirmation from COM that the proposed methodology of establishing the costs of litter clean-up 
is in line with what the COM will propose in the future guidelines. COM explained that under the SUP 
support study, the contractor has only just finalised the analysis of the responses to the stakeholder 
survey and has not yet come forward with any concrete options for a methodology of costs 
calculation/allocation. Therefore, the elements proposed by INFA/VKU provide valuable input to this 
work (relevant parameters/indicators that impact on costs, weight/volume approach, cost units, etc), 
and would also be worth presenting/discussing in the next stakeholder workshop on the 25 February 
on EPR-SUP
 (WP 6). INFA/VKU confirmed their willingness to participate in the workshop and present 
their draft methodology. COM also noted that a number of elements were still missing, which would 
also have to be addressed in the future Guidelines, in particular: 
-
Data from litter clean-up activities in rural/coastal areas, in particular beach clean-up and forest 
cleaning; 
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Costs of awareness-raising campaigns, data gathering and reporting (the latter also applicable to 
wet wipes, balloons and tobacco products with filters, products currently not covered by 
existing EPR schemes). 
 
COM also presented the current state of play of its draft Guidance for EPR schemes under the WFD 
(and relevant for EPR under PPWD, WEEE and Batteries), in particular as regards determining the 
necessary costs’. THE SUP-EPR guidelines should as much as possible build on this Guidance, which is 
expected to be adopted this spring. VKU informed COM that the intention in DE is to incorporate the 
new SUP obligations on cost coverage (litter clean up, waste collection), and to apply these to all 
packaging (not only those SUP items listed in the SUP Directive), based on article 8(1)(b) as well as 
invoking the environment legal basis of the SUP Directive. 
 
It was agreed to continue the discussion in the SUP-EPR Workshop on the 25th of February and connect 
with the contractor of the SUP support study to provide relevant feedback on the methodology. VKU 





also agreed to send COM a legal study on producer responsibility for cigarette buds and the Saxony 
guidelines 
on waste analysis (Richtlinie zur einheitlichen Abfallanalytik in Sachsen). 
 
 
 
 
 
European Commission 
Directorate-General for Environment 
B3 - Waste Management & Secondary Materials 
Avenue de Beaulieu 9 – 5/
 
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium 
Tel : +32 
 
@ec.europa.eu 
 
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/environment 
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