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This document gives guidance for an organization seeking to transition its value creation models and value networks from linear to circular.
This document is applicable to any organization regardless of size, sector or region.
This NWIP on ISO 59010: Guidance on the transition of business models and value networks”, is submitted in conjunction with
other 2 NWIPS on “59004: Vocabulary, principles and guidance for implementation ““, and “59020: Measuring and assessing
circularity performance”, call(s) for the adoption of the ISO 59000 family of standards as ISO EN standards.
Globalisation represents a major challenge to circularity, as supply and value chains are stretched across the globe. The ISO
59000 family of standards, developed by ISO TC 323, will help organizations transition toward a circular economy by providing
common terminology, approaches, and indicators needed to break the linearity deadlock, with its associated unsustainable
loss of resources, pollution, and non-regenerative ecosystems.
Shared responsibility, and innovation in relationships (commercial or contractual, etc) between actors in value networks, and
other stakeholders, be they in proximity, or cross-border, will greatly benefit from these harmonised ISO 59000 family of
standards. These are the product of the contribution of experts from17 liaison organizations and 100 countries from all over
the world.
Written to be regulatory-agnostic, and non-sectoral, they can be readily used by all countries representing different realities,
and bound by different regulatory frameworks. Because of this, and to uphold the spirit of collective action and compromise
which characterised the work in ISO TC 323 committees, the recognition brought by an ISO EN 59000 would greatly bolster
the dissemination and adoption of the 59000 family of standards, avoid EU-27 divergences, while recognising the positive vote
by the majority of EU MS for the ISO 59000 family of standards.
The adoption as ISO EN would also bring immediate effect. This is the first series of standards, in an area which remains
largely uncharted. Gathering experience is essential for the revision of the ISO 59000 family in 2026.
Some complementary NWIPs are also on the table for 59010 and 59004. These intend to develop more specific guidance with
respect to the EUs’s policy regulatory environment. This additional guidance will supplement and not substitute the ISO EN
59000 series, and shall shape CEN’s TC 473 future contributions to the revision of the ISO 59000 family of standards. Adopting
the ISO EN 59000 will also ensure that CEN guidance will use the ISO 59000 as its core structure, and not multiply circularity
standards that may hinder the international accomplishments by ISO TC 323, and potentially create new barriers to trade, and
disrupt the communication channels designed by the ISO 59000 family of standards.
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