EU Integrated Nutrient Management Action Plan (INMAP)
The European Commission has announced that it will prepare an Integrated Nutrient Management Action Plan (INMAP). ESPP is working on concerted proposals for the objectives, content and mechanisms of such an Action Plan. A first draft, developed with Water Europe is online here, and your input and comments are invited. Please send us your ideas and comments to enrich a structured and concerted submission to the European Commission.

Document HERE – send us your input by 30th June 2020
EU Farm-to-Fork Strategy, COM(2020)381, 20th May 2020
EU new Circular Economy Action Plan, COM(2020)98, 11th March 2020

• JRC report on “By-Products” under the FPR (CMC11): for comments. ESPP comments submitted 4/6/2020 here. 
• Final published text EU Fertilising Products Regulation
• List of proposed standards to be developed (10-05-2019)
• ESPP summary of which materials will / will not be authorised for use in EU Fertilising Products
• ESPP summary in SCOPE Newsletter 120 (March 2016
  
  

• Proposed STRUBIAS annexes to the EU Fertilising Products Regulation, v. 7/11/2019: here
• Final published JRC STRUBIAS report:, September 2019 https://ec.europa.eu/...echnical-research-reports/technical-proposals-selected-new-fertilising-materials-under-fertilising-products-regulation
• Report of final STRUBIAS Expert Group meeting, JRC Seville, 25-27 September 2018
• Outcomes ESPP stakeholder meeting on STRUBIAS and EU Fertilisers Regulation (05-09-2018)
• STRUBIAS full “Pre-Final Report and Appendix & Annexes”, circulated 13/8/18. NOTE: replaced by final report of September 2019 (above)
  
• Draft STRUBIAS market study (20-12-2017) - NOTE: replaced by final report of September 2019 (above)
• STRUBIAS Interim report & annexes and “nutrient recovery rules” (24-05-2017) - NOTE: replaced by final report of September 2019 (above)
• ESPP comments on the STRUBIAS draft report and proposed “nutrient recovery rules”
  
  

• AMEC study carried out in 2019 for DG ENVI on possible bans or REACH “Restrictions” on composts and digestates  (Ramboll – Peter Fisk – WOOD ref. 40039CL00313, 8th February 2019)  
• Joint letter criticising the study and requesting its withdrawal
• Currently ongoing study into risks of contaminants in fertilisers

• European Commission proposal for new CAP: COM(2018) 392 final and 2018/0216 (COD), 1st June 2018, and the presentation page.
• European Commission presentation of FaST (Farm Sustainability Tool for Nutrients)  and online “demonstrator”
• ESPP summary of FaST in ESPP eNews n°25
• Joint position supporting that FaST tool be maintained in the CAP, February 2019
  
  

• Explanation of the issues and context: see SCOPE Newsletter n° 100
• ESPP proposals (15/7/2017)
• ESPP presentation to ManuREsource 2017 Nitrates Directive discussion  
  

• SafeManure documents
  • JRC call for data to input to SafeManure study here (20-12-2018)
    
  • JRC DRAFT “Safemanure” (RENURE) Interim Report, 18/11/2019, proposing criteria for recycled manure products under the Nitrates Directive
  • ESPP input to the draft “Safemanure” report (18/12/2019) will be discussed at the 28-30 January 2020 JRC expert group 

• EU Farm-to-Fork strategy consultation (16/3/2020)
• Microplastics EU consultation (22-09-2017)
• Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) evaluation (09-11-2017)
• Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) evaluation (19-10-2018)
• Water Framework Directive (WFD) evaluation (17-11-2017)
• Pharmaceuticals in the environment (18-02-2018)
• EU funds in the area of investment, research & innovation, SMEs and single market (04-03-2018)
• Revision of the Bioeconomy Strategy (20-03-2018)
• Second Environmental Implementation Review (26-11-2018)
• Impacts of EU farm policy on water (27-8-2019)
• HorizonEurope orientations document: ESPP input
• HorizonEurope Circular Bio-Based Partnerships (5/11/2019)
• HorizonEurope Circular Bio-Based Europe roadmap (27/8/2019)

• General summary see SCOPE Newsletter n° 124
• Summary of Netherlands regulations for use of recovered phosphates as fertilisers - Reststoffenunie (29-3-2016)
• Denmark authorisation of struvite as fertiliser (English translation) - Aarhus Water (11-08-2014)
• Japan authorisation of struvite as fertiliser (with English translation) - Swing Corporation (25-4-2019)
  
• Flanders (Belgium) authorisation of struvite as fertiliser (English translation) - Agristo (17-04-2009)

• Switzerland: obligation to recover phosphorus from all sewage sludge and slaughterhouse waste (adopted), see SCOPE Newsletter n° 118 (page 13)
• Germany: obligation to recover phosphorus from larger wastewater treatment plants (in adoption process), see eNews no. 7 and no. 6 and SCOPE Newsletter n° 122
• Austria: proposed mandatory phosphorus recovery from sewage sludge (2016, in adoption process), see ESPP news item
• Sweden: proposed national ordinance on sustainable phosphorus recycling by EPA (2013, no follow up yet), see SCOPE Newsletter n° 123 (page 11) and n° 97 (page 2)

• Proposed validation of recycled P products (struvite, calcined phosphates) - see ESPP eNews n° 4
• Joint letter IFOAM Eu and ESPP to the European Commission, 17th June 2020

• Application of Art 2(7)d “recovered” substances, by-products
  • EU Commission letter 7/12/2015 confirming that recovered struvite, when subject to REACH, benefits from Art 2(7)d
• Link to REACH dossier for struvite: see EC# 232-075-2 in search at https://echa.europa.eu/search-for-chemicals -> “Registration Dossier”
• ESPP input to REACH REFIT consultation, January 2017
  
  

• ESPP comments on the AMEC study on composts and digestates (11/2/2020)
• European Commission (DG ENVI) study on possible "restrictions" on composts and digestates (AMEC 8/2/2019) 
• Exemption of digestate from REACH regulation: published 10/10/2019

• BAT for waste incineration – objective: take into account the recovery of phosphorus from ashes, including inciting separative incineration of high-P streams to generate ash with P-recovery potential (mono-incineration of sewage sludge, not mixing with industrial sludge or municipal solid wastes)
• BAT for intensive pig & poultry production – see SCOPE Newsletter n° 116, see also ESPP letter to EID Forum 30/9/2015
• The finalised BAT BREF for the “Food, Drink and Milk” industries (FDM) published 12/2019 specifies that “Phosphorus recovery as struvite” is BAT for “waste water streams with … high total phosphorus content ..." and also specifies anaerobic digestion, appropriate use of residues in animal feed, appropriate use of wastewater in agriculture to valorise nutrients and/or water.

• EU phosphorus MSA update
  
  

• CEN (European Standards Organisation) recommendations on standards developments needed to support phosphorus recycling, adopted by CEN January 2017
• ISO 13065 “Sustainability Criteria for Bioenergy” see SCOPE newsletter 117
• ISO 275/TC (International Technical Committee) “Sludge recovery, recycling, treatment and disposal” including a specific working group on “Inorganics & nutrients recovery” see SCOPE newsletter 112

• EFSA (European Food Safety Agency) Acceptable Daily Intake for phosphorus in food, 12th June 2019