Changes to public procurement to support products without problematic or unnecessary plastic: Follow-up of the Government Agreement limiting the use of single-use plastics within its facilities (2019) with a questionnaire for public procurers.

‘Guide to green the collective canteens’ (updated) with criteria about single-use plastic reduction.

‘Guide for the inclusion of the quantification of greenhouse gas emission in public procurement’ with examples about quantification of packaging emissions.

Conference to exchange experiences on GPP with examples of single-use plastic prevention

Encouragement of voluntary actions: Follow-up of the Plastic Bag Agreement (see 2020 individual report for details)

In March 2020, the General-Directorate of Environmental Quality and Climate Change approved the product-group of Restaurants of the Catalan Ecolabel, which defined several environmental criteria to prevent the use of single-use plastic products.

More information:

http://mediambient.gencat.cat/ca/05_ambits_dactuacio/empresa_i_produccio_sostenible/ecoproductes_i_ecoserveis/etiquetatge_ecologic_i_declaracions_ambienta

Single-use plastic bags

None reported

Establishment or revision of economic incentives (e.g. subsidies) or disincentives (e.g. taxes, charges): In December 2020 and January 2021, grants were published to companies, public administrations and non-profit entities to develop R&D and implementation projects related to the CE and the efficient use of resources, for a total amount of 3M €:

http://residus.gencat.cat/ca/consultesi_tramits-_nou/subvencions/subvencions-atorgades/

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: The 2020 European Week for Waste Reduction took place on 21 to 29 November with the participation of 38 European regions and 10.690 activities. The Catalan Waste Agency alongside ACR+, EC and CoR are members of the steering committee. 260 public and private entities from Catalonia organized 827 activities http://residus.gencat.cat/en/ambits_dactuacio/prevencio/setmana_europea/index.html

Promotion of collaboration with the private sector, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and civil society organisations: We are working with other departments and several retailers to build a voluntary agreement that allow consumers to use their own reusable packaging when they buy several food and cleansing products. In October 2019 a voluntary agreement with the Catalan Association of Water Packers was signed. Some of the specific agreements are the commitment to reach 70% of reusable glass water bottles in restaurants and 100% of reusable glass water carafes of home-delivery in 2020.

Other actions taken: As from the 1August 2019 the Catalan Waste Agency is participating in the Interreg project SUBTRACT to foster the reuse in Catalonia. The SUBTRACT project focuses on the post start-up and scaling-up phases to render reuse centers effective and durable, i.e. to provide a steady flow of income and outgoing goods well prepared for reuse, a professional management, a suitable financial strategy and an attractive image for the users. https://www.interregeurope.eu/subtract/

Establishment or revision of economic incentives (e.g. subsidies) or disincentives (e.g. taxes, charges): Subsidies to incentivize reuse circular economy projects will be awarded during last semester of 2021

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: European Week for Waste Reduction will be organized in Catalonia from 20 to 28 November 2021

Promotion of collaboration with the private sector, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and civil society organisations: We still do not have quantitative targets

Other planned actions: SUBTRACT project will have an action plan during 2021

None reported

None reported

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: "Let's recycle well. Let's separate well" campaign to encourage citizens to separate household waste. The Campaign also provides guidance on the disposal of masks and gloves after use.

http://residus.gencat.cat/ca/ambits_dactuacio/sensibilitzacio/campanyes/reciclemb_separemb/

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: Periodic awareness campaigns : http://residus.gencat.cat/ca/ambits_dactuacio/sensibilitzacio/campanyes/index.html

Promotion of collaboration with the private sector, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and civil society organisations: Support to selective collection in private business through grants : http://residus.gencat.cat/ca/consultes_i_tramits_-_nou/subvencions/Subvencions-per-empreses-i-entitats/

Encouragement of voluntary actions: In October 2019 the Government of Catalonia signed a voluntary agreement with the Catalan Association of Water Packers consisiting of 11 members. The market of water packed in Catalonia represents 316 million euros/year and 1358 million liters/year.

We committed to reach 20% use of recycled PET in bottles in 2020, 30% in 2025 and 50% in 2030 and to do awareness campaigns with local public administrations.

None reported

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Inadequate information and data for implementation, specify below: Unfortunately, there is no data on packaging or plastic products placed on the market, or if they are recyclable, made with recycled material, reusable or compostable. There is no official register or database where producers have to declare this in Catalonia, nor Spain. It is planned that in the future there will be a register that will depend on the Spanish administration, but we do not know if we will have dissagregated information on autonomous communities or with the details requested by your document"