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Germany: Euroslag and the FEhS-InstitütfürBaustoff-Forschung have spoken of the need for an amendment to European public procurement law to make the uptake of secondary raw materials, including slag, mandatory for public construction tenders. The organisations said that the European Parliament’s latest report on its Circular Economy Action Plan of March 2020 provides for a more strongly ‘ecologically-orientated’ public procurement law.

Euroslag chair and FEhS-InstitütfürBaustoff-Forschung managing director Thomas Reiche said, "The own-initiative report provides the best foundation for binding, forward-looking legislation to consistently promote the circular economy. This also includes fair competition and the conditional prioritisation of secondary raw materials, as also demanded by the rapporteur of the European Parliament Jan Huitema. Only concrete procurement directives with third-party protection character ensure the Europe-wide use of all high-quality secondary building materials, which have been making an important contribution to ecologically and economically sound economic activity for decades!"

Greece: 130 delegates have met in Thessaloniki to attend the Euroslag conference. Delegates travelled from around the world, including from China, South Korea, Japan and the US, to discuss regulation, technical developments and new applications.

Germany: The 10th European Slag Conference will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece on 9 – 11 October 2019. The conference is jointly organised by the Laboratory of Building Materials of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Euroslag and Aeiforos. The title of the Conference is: Slag based products – best practices for Circular Economy. Key topics at the conference will include: legal framework; utilisation and best practices; research and innovation.

Euroslag is the European association of all main organisations and companies concerned with all aspects of manufacturing and utilisation of ferrous slag products. Thessaloniki's main university, Aristotle University (AUTH), is the largest in Greece and in the Balkans. The Laboratory of Building Materials (AUTH) is devoted to research on utilisation of industrial by-products. Aeiforos, part of the Sidenor Group, offers a large range of services in the field of by-product management and valorisation since 2001.