The June 2014 SCOPE Newsletter discusses among other:
Phosphate rock in EU list of 20 Critical Raw Materials
The European Commission has updated its list of “Critical Raw Materials”, increasing from 14 to 20 materials, and adding phosphate rock. The EU’s Critical Raw Materials are defined by a high risk for supply security, compounded in the case of phosphate rock by non-substitutability, and high economic importance.
European essential requirements for organic fertilisers and recovered nutrients
The revision of the EU Fertiliser Regulation 2003/2003, currently under discussion, is intended to widen the scope of the Regulation to include inorganic, organo-mineral and organic fertilisers, organic soil improvers, liming products, growing media, plant bio-stimulant and agronomic fertiliser additives. This will considerably facilitate the placing on the market both of organic products containing recycled nutrients (e.g. processed biosolids, digestates, composts, biochars) and inorganic recovered phosphate products (e.g. struvite, phosphates recovered from sewage sludge, incineration ash).