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European Commission, Brussels Service request under the framework contract No. ENV.G.4/FRA/2007/0066 CONDENSED REPORT “Services on Monitoring Retailers’ REAP commitments” 30 November 2011 Consortium ESWI Expert Team to Support Waste Implementation No 07.0307/2009/SI2.540924/SER/G4 2 Content 1 Background and objectives .......................................................................................... 4 2 Achievements made by category and vision ............................................................... 5 2.2 Commitments and achievements in the different REAP categories ........................................ 6 2.3 Major achievements in different areas of activity across the different categories................. 6 2.3.1 Sales of sustainable products including ecolabelled (all categories) ........................................6 2.3.2 Reduction and optimisation of the use of packaging material (what and how we sell) ..........7 2.3.3 Green procurement, greening of the supply chain and partnerships (what and how we sell) ......................................................................................................................................8 2.3.4 Water management (what and how we sell) ...........................................................................8 2.3.5 Increased energy efficiency (how we sell) ................................................................................9 2.3.6 Optimisation and green innovation of distribution system and logistic including greening of supply chain (how we sell) .....................................................................................9 2.3.7 To improve waste management (how we sell & communication) ........................................ 10 2.3.8 To increase the use and production of renewable energy (how we sell) .............................. 10 2.3.9 Awareness raising on environmental issues (all categories) ................................................. 10 3 Achievements made by retailer ................................................................................. 12 3.1 Achievements made by REAP Member Companies .............................................................. 12 3.1.1 Asda Walmart (UK)................................................................................................................. 12 3.1.2 Auchan (FR) ............................................................................................................................ 13 3.1.3 C&A (Retail Services Company) ............................................................................................. 13 3.1.4 Carrefour (FR)......................................................................................................................... 14 3.1.5 Colruyt (BE) ............................................................................................................................ 15 3.1.6 Delhaize Group....................................................................................................................... 16 3.1.7 El Corte Inglés ........................................................................................................................ 17 3.1.8 IKEA ........................................................................................................................................ 18 3.1.9 Inditex .................................................................................................................................... 19 3.1.10 Kaufland (DE) ......................................................................................................................... 19 3.1.11 Kingfisher (UK) ....................................................................................................................... 20 3.1.12 Leroy Merlin ........................................................................................................................... 21 3.1.13 Lidl .......................................................................................................................................... 22 3.1.14 Marks & Spencer (UK) ............................................................................................................ 22 European Commission ESWI Final Report Services on Monitoring Retailers’ REAP commitments No 07.0307/2009/SI2.540924/SER/G4 3 3.1.15 Mercadona (ES) ...................................................................................................................... 23 3.1.16 Mercator (SI) .......................................................................................................................... 23 3.1.17 Metro Group .......................................................................................................................... 24 3.1.18 REWE Group ........................................................................................................................... 25 3.1.19 Royal Ahold (Albert Heijn, ICA) .............................................................................................. 25 3.1.19.1 Reported initiatives and major achievements made by Albert Heijn ..................................... 26 3.1.19.2 Reported initiatives and major achievements made by ICA .................................................. 27 3.1.20 TESCO ..................................................................................................................................... 27 3.2 Achievements made by Retail Associations ........................................................................... 28 3.2.1 APED (PT) ............................................................................................................................... 28 3.2.2 Confederación Española de Comercio CEC (ES) ..................................................................... 29 3.2.3 Euro Coop ............................................................................................................................... 29 3.2.3.1 ANCC/Coop Italia ................................................................................................................... 30 3.2.3.2 S-Group (FI): ........................................................................................................................... 31 3.2.3.3 Kooperativa Förbundet (SE): .................................................................................................. 31 3.2.3.4 Coop Norway: ........................................................................................................................ 32 3.2.3.5 The Co-operative Group (UK)................................................................................................. 33 3.2.4 FCD (FR) .................................................................................................................................. 34 3.3 Verification of achievements by store visits .......................................................................... 35 4 Conclusions and Recommendations .......................................................................... 37 4.1 Conclusions from the second REAP progress monitoring ...................................................... 37 4.2 Recommendations for examples of good practice ................................................................ 38 4.3 Recommendations for future REAP progress monitoring ..................................................... 40 European Commission ESWI Final Report Services on Monitoring Retailers’ REAP commitments No 07.0307/2009/SI2.540924/SER/G4 4 1 Background and objectives The Retail Forum1 is a multi-stakeholder platform set up in order to exchange best practices on sustainability in the European retail sector and to identify opportunities and barriers that may further or hinder the achievement of sustainable consumption and production over an initial timeframe of three years. Membership in the Retail Forum is voluntary and open to all retailers who join the Retailers' Environmental Action Plan (REAP). Exemplary environmental initiatives of REAP Members are reported in the Matrix of Environmental Action Points (MAP) and shall demonstrate progress made in the environmental sector over time. This progress is to be monitored externally in order to ensure transparency and to add more weight to the Forum, and to complement in a more cross- sectional manner the retailers' individual and collective reports. This report constitutes a short version of the second external progress monitoring on behalf of the European Commission and has its focus on the targets set and achievements made by 2010. A comparison with the first progress monitoring round is made. In addition it contains summary information on the translation of commitments into the REAP database.2 The results are structured according the REAP categories: “What we sell”, “How we sell”, and “Communication” and the individual REAP member company and association. For more information and further details please check the comprehensive full version of the progress report, which contains extended detailed information about achievements for 2010 and developments made since 2009. Additional details and illustrations with a particular focus on store visits performed are contained in the Annex to the report document which can be accessed together with the report at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/industry/retail/monitoring_report.htm. 1 http://ec.europa.eu/environment/industry/retail/index_en.htm 2 http://ec.europa.eu/environment/industry/retail/reap/index_en.html European Commission