Paper Week
30 November 2005
Paper Recycling:
Challenge and Opportunity
for the Paper Sector
Paper Week-Open Seminar:
Wasted Opportunity?
November 30, Brussels
María Gafo Gómez-Zamalloa
Unit Forest-based Industries
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30 November 2005
Outline for the EU Forest-Based Industries
1. The main challenges
1. The main challenges for the EU ForestBased Industries
2. How to overcome the challenges?
3. Ongoing and Future Additional Actions
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30 November 2005
1. The main challenges for the EU Forest-Based Industries
 Cost and availability of virgin and recovered raw
materials: wood, chemicals, recovered paper…
 Evolution of energy/transportation costs
 Evolution of the environmental framework in the EU
and globally
 Structural adaptation to a changing demand
 Permanent technological and innovative update
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30 November 2005
Average Weighted Cost Structure of Paper & Board
Capital
charges
19%
Fibres
32%
Other
manufactu
ring costs
11%
Personnel
13%
Chemicals
12%
Energy
13%
GmbH/S.A./Ltd./etc. (data from 3Q2004 for CEPI )
Source: Jaakko Pöyry Consulting
Paper Week
30 November 2005
Outline for the EU Forest-Based Industries
1. The main challenges
1. The main challenges for the EU ForestBased Industries
2.
2.How
Howto
toovercome
overcomethe
thechallenges?
challenges?
3. Ongoing and Future Additional Actions
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30 November 2005
2. How to overcome the challenges?
 Paper and Board Sector: Opportunity to be
Competitive and Sustainable
 Authorities and industry act together towards this
goal
►A new and broader commitment by the paper
industry, recycling sector and other related
stakeholders is needed.
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30 November 2005
2. How to overcome the challenges?
 Advisory Committee on Community Policy regarding
Forestry and Forest-based Industries: WG on Paper
Recycling:
-
Current developments in EU Waste Policy
European Declaration on Paper Recovery
Paper recycling: latest developments and remaining issues
Discussion about a future commitment on behalf of the industry
►Welcome and support the initiative from the
Industry to put in place a new –broader- commitment
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30 November 2005
Outline
1. The main challenges for the EU ForestBased Industries
2. How to overcome the challenges?
3.
3.Ongoing
Ongoingand
andFuture
FutureAdditional
Actions Actions
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3. Ongoing and Future Actions
New Communication on Industrial Policy:
Improve the framework conditions for manufacturing
industry and ensure the consistency of policy areas.
Deepening and supplementing the framework for
industrial policy taking into account the characteristics
of individual industry sectors (including the forestbased industry)
►High Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy
and Environment
►New Communication on Forest-based Industries
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30 November 2005
3. Ongoing and Future Actions
HLG on Competitiveness, Energy and Environment
Promote sustainability and competitiveness in
manufacturing industry
Further a greater coherence in environment and
energy policies
Partnership with all stakeholders, strengthening
Better Regulation
Scope: complex interaction between
competitiveness, energy and environment
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30 November 2005
3. Ongoing and Future Actions
New Communication on Forest-based Industries
in 2006
Cumulative incidence of measures, specially
energy and environment
Challenges for the Forest-based Industries
Measures to improve the competitiveness of EU
forest-based industries
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30 November 2005
3. Ongoing and Future Actions
R&D + Innovation
 Forest-sector Technology Platform
www.forestplatform.org
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30 November 2005
Thank you for your attention!