Iron and steel products under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR): why a strict scope limitation to intermediate products is essential

As major downstream users of steel and iron (e.g. machinery products can contain up to 90% steel), Europe’s technology industries recognise that, for the purpose of contributing to circularity, a meaningful exchange of information between the different actors in the value chain is important to improve the product life cycle footprint from design to recycling.

However, responsibilities and efforts for providing such data must be shared properly between the different actors in the value chain.

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