SECTORAL POLICIES / Circular economy

Member States’ transition is at standstill despite €10 billion in EU financial support, says European Court of Auditors

Brussels, 03/07/2023 (Agence Europe)

With a lack of efforts to encourage the circularity of production from the product design stage, the Member States of the European Union are virtually at a standstill in their transition to a circular economy, despite more than €10 billion of EU funds mobilised for this purpose between 2015 and 2020 under the first circular economy action plan, points out the European Court of Auditors in a special report (17/2023) published on Monday 3 July.

In these conditions, the Court of Auditors...