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Croatia - Proposed Circular Economy Action Plan on Construction and Demolition Waste : Annex I - Report on Priority Measure Analysis (English)

13 Dec 2022

The Croatian government has made commendable efforts to create a sound regulatory framework for materials use and waste management, yet the country's performance continues to fall short of the expected targets. Croatia has set the goal to reduce CDW generation by 2030 in its National Development Strategy. This vision is embodied in several policy instruments such as the Croatian Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026, the WMP of the Republic of Croatia for the 2017-2022 period and the Waste Management Act. All of them present ambitious objectives in energy efficiency, GHG emissions, waste management, and efficient use of materials in the CDW sector. The EU Waste Framework Directive (WFD) defines as a target the recovery of 70 percent of Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) by 2020, as well as the minimization of downcycling and backfilling. According to data collected and reported by the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development (MoESD), in 2020 Croatia generated about 1.4 million tons of CDW with a recycling rate of 60 percent. Adopting the EU legislative frameworks at the national level supports the establishment of the country's legislation system that is comparable with that of the other member states, but the achieved results in terms of the Circularity Index remain below the European average. This report, which proposes the first Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) for the CDW sector in Croatia, aims to illustrate the sector-specific challenges that Croatia is facing in realizing CE in the construction and demolition waste sector and to recommend the potential measures and actions that may help Croatian CDW sector to transition into CE. The CEAP development started with a diagnostic analysis of the CDW sector to understand the status of CDW management in Croatia. Based on the analysis and multiple stakeholder consultation meetings, the diagnostic extracted the six major challenges in the sector and translated them into the corresponding objectives of the CEAP. To propose the best available measures and actions for CE transition in Croatia, stocktaking of international good practices and policy examples on CE in the CDW sector was conducted to provide guiding principles for the development of the CEAP in Croatia. The framework of the proposed CEAP is shown below as a flowchart.
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Authors

Akbar,Sameer, Tasaki,Rieko Kubota, Kalinski,Vladimir, Behrens,Arno Philipp Friedrich, Chang,Jiyoun Christina

Disclosure Date
2022/12/13
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Croatia - Proposed Circular Economy Action Plan on Construction and Demolition Waste : Annex I - Report on Priority Measure Analysis
Originating Unit
ECA ENR PM (SCAEN)
Product Line
Advisory Services & Analytics
Published in
United States of America
Rel Proj ID
HR-Croatia: Circular Economy Approaches In Solid Waste Management -- P173141
Unit Owning
ECA ENR PM (SCAEN)
Version Type
Final
Volume No
1

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