Seville, (EFE).- The plenary session of the Andalusian Parliament approved this Wednesday, with the support of the PP and PSOE, the Circular Economy law, a regulation from the previous legislature, which seeks triple environmental, economic and social sustainability, and supposes a “circular revolution” by turning waste into resources, according to the Andalusian government.
The norm has had the votes in favor of PP and PSOE, the opposite vote of Vox and the abstention of Por Andalucía and the Grupo Mixto-Adelante Andalucía.
In total, the PP has accepted to incorporate 61 of 102 amendments that the PSOE-A had presented.
The standard has 94 articles and it is a pioneering initiative, seeking to reduce the environmental impact of any process while favoring economic development and generating employment, seeking to convert waste into resources, said the Minister of Sustainability, Environment and Blue Economy, Ramón Fernández Pacheco.
Planning at the local level
Commitment to take advantage of and reject waste, working through the Circular Economy Office, which will be an administrative unit that will advise, energize, coordinate and manage everything related to the standard.
To this end, it will offer planning instruments at the local level so that municipalities can prepare, approve, implement and execute in terms of waste management; and it will also facilitate ecological public contracting, giving priority to the introduction of environmental criteria in contracting by public administrations.
The objective is for companies to look for resources from waste and for the emergence of new companies capable, in turn, of putting these by-products on the market.
The norm will also encourage producers to analyze the life cycles of products and services and register them in an Andalusian Public Registry, which will be established for this purpose. It is about encouraging producers to ‘sell’ this reuse of waste as another attraction of their product or service. Andalusia’s circular economy model will replace the linear one, now obsolete and, above all, wasteful.
avoid propaganda
The socialist deputy María Gámez has highlighted the need to provide more resources to the municipalities so that they can develop the powers that are attributed to them, although she has called it “scandalous” that the money from the taxes of the circular economy can be used to ” payrolls” of the Ministry or acts of communication and “advertising”.
For the Vox deputy, Rodrigo Alonso, it is “striking” that this Andalusian law “celebrates” the Sánchez Government’s Circular Economy law, has criticized that the PP “has surrendered” to the postulates of the 2030 Agenda and that the Government of Moreno “fattening” with this law the “parallel” administration by creating the circular economy office.
Juan Antonio Delgado (For Andalusia) has considered, for his part, that the rule is a “lost opportunity and wet paper” by not establishing obligations for its compliance, and has linked its approval to the application of the “absolutist roller” of the PP, He has said that “the mask of moderate has fallen off.”
The spokesman for Adelante, José Ignacio García, has called the law “disappointing”, who has questioned its usefulness by arguing that it hardly provides obligations for its compliance and “will allow the usefulness” of landfills such as Nerva or Huelva’s phosphogypsum. EFE
