Views 09 Oct 2026 Joint statement: 44 European organisations call for fair competition through more ambitious EU Trade Defence
Views 02 Oct 2026 Joint statement: A Circular Economy Act delivering a strong EU market for secondary raw materials
Position papers 21 Sep 2026 Plastics Europe’s Position on the EU ETS Review Plastics Europe calls for an EU ETS revision that preserves Europe’s industrial competitiveness while maintaining the system’s role in reducing emissions. The reform must provide effective carbon leakage protection, maintain free allocation where no proven equivalent alternative exists, and align the phase-out of allowances with the real availability of enabling conditions for industrial decarbonisation.
Views 07 Sep 2026 Joint letter: Sector renews six strategic recommendations to strengthen competitiveness, circularity and investment
Views 03 Sep 2026 Executive Summary: Policy event on Circular Economy Act as Europe’s new competitiveness strategy and its implications for plastics
Views 26 Aug 2026 Europe cannot deliver a circular plastics economy without enabling innovation How innovation in technologies demonstrates the need to modernise Europe’s recycling framework
Views 13 Aug 2026 Making the Waste Shipment Regulation Work for EU Circular Economy The Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR) is a key instrument for supporting the EU’s circular economy objectives and for integrating recycling into European supply chains. To unlock its full potential, the WSR requires an enabling framework for intra-EU shipments of recyclable plastics that diverts valuable materials away from incineration and landfill, improves access to specialised recycling capacity, and supports investment in innovative recycling technologies
News 07 Jul 2026 Joint Declaration for a Bold FP10:Investing in Research, Development and Innovation to Boost European Productivity and Competitiveness
Position papers 22 Jun 2026 Plastics Europe calls for technology-neutral sustainability criteria for plastics recycling technologies that safeguard European competitiveness and innovation
News 18 Jun 2026 Plastics Europe’s reaction to the End-of-life vehicles Regulation plenary vote [Brussels, 18 June 2026]
News 08 Apr 2026 Rebooting Circular Plastics in Europe: A Call for Urgent Action and Competitiveness European plastics value chain, represented by European Plastics Converters, Plastics Recyclers Europe, and Plastics Europe, welcomes the relaunch of the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) as a critical opportunity to get Europe’s plastics circularity ambitions back on track. At a time of growing pressure on the sector, renewed political focus from the European Commission and Member States must now translate rapidly into concrete action. We hope that the high-level meeting taking place today will be an important step towards that.