Professional Documents
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roadmaps in Europe
The first phase of the project provides the foundation ground by:
collecting information on existing and prospective strategies
providing an overview of commonalities and differences in
objectives, rationales, and thematic focus
providing a framework for analysing governance arrangements
identifying early elements of good practice
drafting a proposal for an adaptable model strategy structure
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steps or milestones to reach them
Location of
existing and
upcoming
strategies
50
Number of adopted strategies
40
30
20
10
0
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De 5
De 6
De 7
De 8
De 9
Se 4
Se 5
Se 6
Se 7
Se 8
Se 9
M 4
M 5
M 6
M 7
M 8
19
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9
1
1
1
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p-
p-
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p-
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n-
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Ju
Ju
Ju
Ju
Ju
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Development over time
Own elaboration based on the review of existing strategies and information collected on upcoming strategies
Key findings
a b
1
Certain territories have a higher
Strategies are roughly equally
concentration of strategies (e.g.
distributed between national,
the Netherlands, Belgium, the
regional, and city level
UK, France, Spain)
c d
Different thematic/sectoral
Differentfocus
thematic and sectoral focus
Strategies with a
restricted sectoral Integrated strategies
focus… with no specific sector
focus
10
All-encompassing
strategies with a clear
setting of priorities
19
Own elaboration
Horizontal sectors by incidence
2
Repairing, reusing, refurbishing
Public procurement
Enabling innovation
Sustainable development
Network building
Regulatory action
Social enterprise
International cooperation
Labelling
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
Own elaboration
Economic sectors by incidence
2
Manufacturing
Construction
Waste processing
Mobility
Education
Electronics/electricals
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Own elaboration
Key findings
a b
2
Different criteria are used for the
Many strategies select sectors
selection of sectors: economic
following a rather
importance, circularity potential,
explorative/pioneering approach
political importance
c d
Choice of economic sectors is
Scalability and transferability different according to territorial
often have little consideration in level (e.g. manufacturing is in all
the selection of sectors regional strategies but in half of
national ones)
e f
Experience and
links to other
policies and Intersections between the strategy elements (rows of the matrix)
strategies and needs (columns of the matrix) are used to display the points
Implementation of concern that may arise when addressing a specific need in a
plan specific section of the strategy.
Governance
This layout allows for the consideration of a broad range of issues,
and provides a visual cue of the variety of issues that must be
Time plan
considered when building a circular economy strategy.