In the past decades, efforts have already been done throughout the EU by national and local authorities to promote recycling and re-use of construction and demolition waste, although not in a homogeneous way across the EU and with different effects. That is why the development of policies aimed at increasing C&DW recovery and recycling is crucial. HISER partners are also convinced that standardisation and certification are essential in many policy instruments. Moreover, standardisation and certification work together to remove market barriers, to assure safety, to increases the compatibility of products and to promote common technical understanding.

That is the reason, why the following aspects will be covered while working on the HISER project:

• formulation of the basis for changes in policies and standards favouring the recovery of materials and uptake of the market

• promotion of the recovery and processing of the construction and demolition waste into intermediate or finished product and the secondary raw materiał thorough the definition of policies and standards