The Spanish Association for Standardization, UNE, has published the report ‘Standards supporting the circular economy 2025’, which updates the list of Spanish UNE, European EN and international ISO and IEC standards that support the transition to a circular economy. It aims to be a useful resource for both private and public stakeholders seeking references for implementing circular measures and highlights the contribution of standardization to these objectives.
This annual document compiles the standards published by UNE in 2024 that address aspects such as: guidelines for implementing the circular economy in organisations, characterisation and requirements of secondary raw materials, recommendations for circular design, assessment of circularity characteristics, communication of product circularity characteristics, infrastructure performance efficiency, and circular product requirements.
The information is organized by sectors of application and includes, for each standard, a description of its specific contribution to the circular model. This document aims to facilitate the transition by providing entities of all types with practical tools already available. These standards, developed through transparent, consensus-driven, and open processes, reflect agreements reached by numerous entities in each area. Moreover, given the common European or international scope of many of these standards, they also incorporate a shared vision from organisations across different countries.
This initiative originates from the UNE Circular Economy Advisory Committee and complements the actions promoted by this Committee to contribute to national and European objectives in this field.
