As follow-up to the successful Convenorship for ad-hoc group Measuring Circularity (led by Hans Kröder in 2019), Royal NEN from The Netherlands has been facilitating the Secretariat of ISO/TC 323 Working Group 3 ‘Measuring circularity’. Hans Kröder has been the Convenor for the development of ISO 59020 ‘Circular Economy – Measuring and assesing circularity performance’ from May 2020 till May 2024. He is also member of the ISO/TC 323 Chair Advisory Group to advice on the alignment of the ISO 59000 standards.
Photo: Nan van Oldenbeek as Secretariat and Hans Kröder as Convenor (Chair) from NEN in Rwanda, Kigali in September 2022.
Hans Kröder: it is important to take responsibility and leadership to transition the linear economy into a circular economy. The ISO 59000 standards will play a crucial role.
Guidance and requirements on how to measure and assess the circularity performance of regions, cities, groups of organizations, the organization itself and its products and solutions is KEY: ISO 59020 Measuring and assessing circularity is providing this for all types of organizations!
At the start: Experts from the Dutch Mirror Committee have played a very active role in the international dialogues in 2019. Solange Blaszkowski (Philips), Lex Eschauzier (Constantis), Marc Balder (Royal NEN) and Hans Kröder participated in the first meeting in Paris (May 2019).
This resulted in a proposal from NEN to develop an ISO standard on ‘Measuring and assessing circularity’. This proposal was accepted in April 2020 and became ISO 59020. All the preparatory work was led by Hans Kröder on behalf of NEN.
