On September 26, 2025, Arthur ten Wolde gave a presentation on EU sustainability and economic policy at Making Vinyl Europe, a conference of the European vinyl record industry. His key messages were that important legislation from the European Green Deal will continue as usual and will have consequences for the record industry in the coming years. This is particularly due to the presence of PVC in vinyl, combined with the high proportion of PVC that is still landfilled or incinerated.
Brussels, July 2 – At the high-level “Clean Industrial Dialogue on Circularity” in Brussels, Ecopreneur.eu Executive Director Arthur ten Wolde joined Commissioner Jessika Roswall, Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera, and Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné and presented the new Ecopreneur.eu position paper, “An EU Circular Economy Act to drive competitiveness and investment in circular business” to Commissioner Roswall. For more information and the position paper click here.
Video clip including a quote from Ecopreneur.eu on why we need a circular economy act: “Circular business models need to be REWARDED”: here
On June 16th, Arthur ten Wolde participated in a panel discussion on the future of the manufacturing industry on behalf of Circular Future, at the invitation of the Malta Business Network and the Dutch Embassy. Click here for the press release about the debate
Haarlem, 28 May 2025 – At the invitation of the Dutch Embassy and Malta Business Network, Arthur ten Wolde will participate in person with a short keynote presentation on 16 June at the isle of Malta at the event “What’s Next for European Manufacturing?”, where he will bring in an EU sustainable business leaders’ perspective.
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The European Green Deal continues to shape the EU’s legislative landscape. The Clean Industrial Deal, Circular Economy Act and 2040 Climate Target are backed by centrist and green coalitions. However, the Green Deal’s progress is challenged by forces within the new Commission and far-right opposition in the Parliament and Member States. What legislation is now in force, what is going on, and what will remain?
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Arthur ten Wolde is Quoted in the Dutch financial newspaper FD of April 4, 2025:
“With Von der Leyen’s proposal, everything is open again – with all kinds of ambiguity as a result. In addition, under the guise of ‘the fewer rules, the better’, the Commission also wants to delete parts of the directives that are useful. ‘Like the sector-specific reporting standards,’ says Arthur ten Wolde, Executive Director of the European Sustainable Businesses Federation, Ecopreneur.eu. These actually simplify reporting for companies, because they are tailor-made. ‘The way the Commission is approaching this is not entirely rational.’”
Find the full article HERE (N.B. in Dutch, copyright protected behind a paywall)
Brussels, October 23, 2019 – The Board of Ecopreneur.eu, the European Sustainable Business Federation in Brussels, has appointed Arthur ten Wolde as its Executive Director. He succeeds Juliane Reiber, who has been its director since its foundation year 2016, with Arthur as the spokesperson for circular economy from the start.
Haarlem, May 10, 2019 – In addition to his work for MVO Nederland and Ecopreneur.eu, Arthur started as Trainer for CIRCO, the Dutch programme for training companies and designers in circular design. Based on his background as a plastics technologist he was added to the team for plastics, but is also available for other tracks such as textiles or consumer products.
Arthur advising INTOS, the 1000th participant in the CIRCO Programme
