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While implementing the EU Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP 2020), Member States are encouraged to advance circularity at a national level by adopting policies and initiatives that go beyond EU regulations, while preserving the Single Market. These circular economy country profiles are based on information reported by the Eionet network and, in particular, the Eionet group on circular economy and resource use.
The European Commission has requested the EEA to produce circular economy country profiles that offer a view of the following elements:
- circular economy policies being implemented at a national level with a particular focus on elements that go beyond EU mandatory elements; and
- best practices with a focus on policy innovation.
In a reporting round in 2022 the key focus was on policies that would go beyond the elements mandated in EU legislation and thus shed light on experimentation in countries and support shared learning.
A second round was carried out in 2024 with a stronger focus on industrial symbiosis and synergies between different initiatives.
The profiles are thus to some extent complementary.
Reporting covers all EU countries, and in addition a few non-EU Eionet countries have chosen to also report experience in the interest of knowledge sharing and learning.