Increasingly concrete EU frameworks provide insight into opportunities for your value chain

What strikes me about EU regulations is that people are increasingly thinking and working from a single value chain vision. A vision that revolves around cooperation in the chain, so that we use and reuse the raw materials we bring in in the EU for longer.

Recently, regulations for the automotive sector were adopted with more than three-quarters of the votes. And although ‘Digital Product Passport’ does not appear in the press release about this, it is about the same principle as the business processes behind the Digital Product Passport.

Namely: working together in the value chain. Because being commercially involved in circularity requires good agreements with your chain, working processes, and managing all associated information.

Is politics leading the way, or are you already just as busy with the long term of your department, business unit or company?

If your value chain wants to be relevant in the future, it is better to start organizing now.

Know where you stand with your value chain. Determine where the opportunities lie and what needs to be done. Set priorities and start.

Making the linear supply chain better and better was your focus. Keeping the raw materials in the chain for longer and longer will be the focus.