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This initiative, led by the Circular Economy Advisory Committee of the Spanish Association for Standardisation (UNE), aims to support national and European goals in this area.
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To that end, it identifies Spanish UNE, European EN and international ISO and IEC standards published in the past year that include requirements and recommendations on circular economy.
Madrid, 26 June 2025 – The Spanish Association for Standardisation (UNE) has published the report "Standards supporting the circular economy 2025", with the aim of helping companies, public administrations and other stakeholders identify Spanish UNE, European EN and international ISO and IEC standards that support the transition toward more circular production and consumption models. The annual document identifies and compiles the standards published by UNE during 2024 and clearly and systematically highlights their specific contribution to the circular model, sector by sector.
The report groups the recently published standards into 12 application sectors, including construction, textiles, telecommunications, water treatment and packaging. For each standard, it outlines its contribution to objectives such as material reuse, product durability and reparability, the incorporation of secondary raw materials and the prevention of greenwashing.
"With this report, we aim to highlight the value of standardisation as a trusted and reference tool for advancing toward a real and effective circular economy. Technical standards, developed through open and consensus-based processes, provide standardised criteria that help organisations design, produce and communicate their circular initiatives in a rigorous and transparent manner", says Iván Moya, Head of Sectoral Transformation at UNE.
UNE, in addition to coordinating this initiative through its Circular Economy Advisory Committee, collaborates with international (ISO and IEC) and European (CEN and CENELEC) standardisation bodies to promote global standards that enable the implementation of circularity in products, services and business models at various levels.
See the report here Circular Economy Support Standards 2025.
