• Engagement and capacity building
• Regulation and incentives
• Vision and urban management

Mass of materials given passport per year

(To be selected together with indicator number 2)

Total mass of materials given passport per year for each of the relevant fractions

• Engagement and capacity building
• Regulation and incentives
• Vision and urban management

Description of passport established / updated to facilitate increased circularity. E.g. type of certification/validation, name of the institution issuing the passport, material types/fractions etc

(To be selected together with indicator number 1)

Qualitative description

• Engagement and capacity building
• Regulation and incentives
• Vision and urban management

Qualitative description of individual tools, including scope and scale (e.g. demonstration vs city level), target users.

(To be selected together with indicator number 20)

Qualitative description

• Engagement and capacity building

Description of knowledge building campaigns. The campaigns would normally be in the form of formalized education events, e.g. classes, courses, education workshops. Describe type of groups reached and type of knowledge building campaign.

(To be selected together with indicator number 5)

1. Identify and categorise knowledge campaigns
2. Identify groups reached

• Engagement and capacity building

Number of campaigns Number of people reached for each campaign

(To be selected together with indicator number 4)

1. Number of campaigns
2. Number of people reached

• Engagement and capacity building

Description of activity type and dialogue methods, which stakeholder groups and when in the process Number of people involved

1. Identify stakeholder activity
2. Describe process and when stakeholders are involved
3. Identify dialogue methods used
4. Number of people involved

• Engagement and capacity building

Number of CE-based collaboration platforms/networks Number of members in CE-based collaboration platforms/networks

1. Number of formalised CE-based collaboration platforms/networks
2. Number of people in formalised CE-based collaboration platforms/networks

• Engagement and capacity building

Qualitative description of input from stakeholder activities and how it has contributed to improved circularity

1. List inputs from stakeholders
2. Describe how it has been used by those that invited the stakeholder activity
3. Describe how it has contributed to improved circularity

• Engagement and capacity building

Describe type of communication measures, e.g. campaigns, provision of information, events for the public/companies.

1. Number of communication measures towards general public on CE transformation
2. Number of people reached

• Regulation and incentives

Description of requirements in procurements going beyond what is current standard practice

(To be selected together with indicator number 15)

1. Decide which procurements are relevant for analysis (e.g. demo action focussed procurements only or a wider range of procurements)
2. Describe current standard practice in terms of CE requirements
3. For each procurement case, describe additional requirements beyond standard practice
4. In case of several relevant procurements, summarize relevant progress beyond existing levels

• Regulation and incentives

List and describe ambition and to which degree the ambitions are being fulfilled

Evaluate each ambition on scale:

1. no progress,
2. little progress,
3. some progress,
4. ambition nearly reached,
5. ambition reached or beyond.

• Regulation and incentives

The share of investments made by selected public and private financial institutions in programmes / projects that explicitly focus on promoting CE.

CE focused investments as a share of total investments

• Regulation and incentives

Number of procurements with circularity requirements

Value of procurement with circularity requirements

(To be selected together with indicator number 12)

For each action:

• Type of procurement action
• Value of procurement

For the whole period considered:

• Time period
• Number of procurement contracts
• Sum up the total value of these contracts

• Regulation and incentives

Description of stakeholder dialogue in procurement processes focussing on circularity (e.g. demonstration action related or at city level)

(To be selected together with indicator number 17)

List number of procurements processes using stakeholder dialogue. For each of these procurements processes:

• Describe the stakeholders/actors involved in the dialogue
• Description of the dialogue including when in the process

• Vision and urban management

Describe to which degree the city is making progress towards its circularity objectives. Identify categories of relevant strategy documents, select documents and relevant selected CE targets.

For each of the identified targets: Describe ambition and judge on scale:

1. no progress,
2. little progress,
3. some progress,
4. ambition nearly reached,
5. ambition reached or beyond

• Material / energy flow

The total amount of materials directly used by an economy and is defined as the annual quantity of raw materials extracted from the domestic territory, plus all physical imports minus all physical exports. See Eurostat

DMC = DEU + IMP - EXP = Domestic extraction used + Imports - Exports

• Material / energy flow

The total amount of virgin materials directly used.

Virgin extraction + virgin imports - virgin exports where virgin imports = imports - imports of recycled materials - imports of waste

• Re-use and recycling

The circular material use rate (CMU), also called Circularity rate measures, in percentage, the share of material recovered and fed back into the economy - thus saving extraction of primary raw materials - in overall material use. A higher Circularitity rate value indicates more secondary materials substituting for primary raw materials i.e. avoiding the environmental impacts of extracting primary material.

"Circularity rate (CMU) is defined as the ratio of the circular use of materials (U) to the overall material use (M).

CMU = U/M = (RCV_R - IMPw + EXPw) / (DMC + RCV_R - IMPw + EXPw)

The overall material use is measured by summing up the aggregate domestic material consumption (DM3. and the circular use of materials (M = DMC + U). DMC is defined in economy-wide material flow accounts.

The circular use of materials is approximated by the amount of waste recycled in domestic recovery plants (RCV_R), minus imported waste destined for recovery (IMPw), plus exported waste destined for recovery abroad (EXPw). Waste recycled in domestic recovery plants comprises the recovery operations R2 to R11 as defined in the Waste Framework Directive 75/442/EEC. European statistics on international trade in goods (ITGS) are used to approximate the imports and exports of waste destined for recycling, i.e. the amount of imported waste bound for recovery (IMPw), and the amount of exported waste bound for recovery (EXPw).” Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/EN/env_ac_cur_esms.htm

• Re-use and recycling

Measures how much the city is independent from the rest of the world for several raw materials.

The indicator is expressed in % and is defined as:

1-(net) Import reliance.

Import Reliance (IR) is defined in the EU Critical Raw Materials methodology as IR = Net import / Apparent consumption = (Import - Export) / (Domestic production + Import - Export)

• Re-use and recycling

The End-of-Life Recycling Rate (EoL RR) measures the efficiency with which the mass contained in End-of-Life products is collected, pre-treated, and finally recycled.

For each material fraction, the End-of-Life recycling rate is defined as the End-of-Life mass recycled divided by the available mass of End-of-Life materials. It is the product of the Processing Rate and the Collection Rate (EoL RR = EoL PR x EoL CR).

• Waste generation / management

Total mass of waste for sector.

Data from waste management companies.

• Waste generation / management

The End-of-Life Processing Rate (EoL PR) measures the efficiency of the end-of-life processing process.

For each material fraction, the End-of-Life processing rate is defined as:

The End-of-Life mass recycled divided by the End-of-Life mass collected.

• Waste generation / management

Mass percentage of waste which is incinerated.

Mass of materials incinerated divided by total amount of waste. Data from waste management companies.

• Waste generation / management

Mass percentage of waste which is landfilled.

Mass of materials landfilled divided by total amount of waste. Data from waste management companies.

• Environment impacts (local)

The indicator shows the population-weighted concentration of PM10 and PM2.5 to which the urban population is potentially exposed.

Population weighted annual mean concentration in µg/m3. Calculated for i. particulates <2.5µm ii. particulates <10µm

See more info on methodology in Eurostat indicator t2020_rn210

• Environment impacts (local)

Particulate matter (PM10) comprises solid and liquid particles of less than 10 micrometres suspended in air.

Should be measured at selected sites at demo and city level: The amount of solid and liquid particles less than 10 micrometres suspended in air. Should be averaged over selected time periods (e.g. day, month, year) and can be compared to daily limit values (50 µg/m3).

See Eurostat indicator t2020_rn200 as reference and data description. Urban population exposed to PM10 concentrations exceeding the daily limit value.

• Environment impacts (local)

Particulate matter (PM2.5) comprises solid and liquid particles of less than 10 micrometres suspended in air.

Should be measured at selected sites at demo and city level:

The amount of solid and liquid particles less than 2.5 micrometres suspended in air. Should be averaged over selected time periods (e.g. day, month, year)

• Environment impacts (global)

The indicator measures annual emissions of the so called ‘Kyoto basket’ of greenhouse gases. The indicator should be calculated at city level and when relevant, for demonstration actions. Focus is on direct emissions. See here for more info on the Kyoto basket

Direct GHG emissions pr. year demo level Direct GHG emissions pr. year city level

• Environment impacts (global)

The indicator measures annual emissions of the so called ‘Kyoto basket’ of greenhouse gases per capita at city level

Direct GHG emissions per year at city level divided by the number of inhabitants

• Environment impacts (global)

The indicator measures annual direct emissions of CO2 at city level per GDP at city level.

Direct CO2 emissions divided by GDP at city level. Calculated per year.