1. www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr
Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy
Crédit photo : Arnaud Bouissou/MEDDTL
Key factors for successful
implementation of EPR
French experience
Global Forum on Environment:
Promoting Sustainable Materials
Management through EPR
OECD, Tokyo, 19 June 2014

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All stakeholders onboard
• EPR schemes are an opportunity to organise dialogue :
• Through dialogue can emerge visibility for all:
– French PROs must abide by specific ‘terms of reference’
negotiated every 6 years
Producers Municipalities
Waste
management
operators
NGOs
(Environmental,
consumers)
Government

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Public control is key
• Governments need to remain in control and mitigate risks
– Competition issues, market dominance
– Freeriders
• Control and sanction when necessary

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See EPR as an industrial project
• EPR is a tool with environmental, economic and social
dimensions
• EPR schemes help kickstart an industrial waste
management network:
– Money is available through producers
– Results are required through obligations
– This creates robust conditions for investments
– And contributes to a circular economy model

5. www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr
Ministère de l'Écologie, du Développement durable,
et de l'Energie
Thank you
for your attention