According to her mission letter, the Commissioner-designate for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy, Jessika Roswall, will be responsible for drawing up the Circular Economy Act announced by Ursula von der Leyen in July. She will lead this file together with the Executive Vice President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy, Stéphane Séjourné. The aim is to create demand on the market for secondary raw materials and establish a single market for waste, notably in relation to critical raw materials. But the form this act will take remains unclear.
Jessika Roswall will also be responsible for updating the 2012 Bioeconomy Strategy. A public consultation should open before the end of the year.