On 15 November 2013 in Barcelona, Spain, ACR+ held its annual General Assembly, followed by a Board of Directors meeting. During the latter, the Board appointed a new President of the Association. Mr. Josep Maria Tost i Borràs, Director of the Catalan Waste Agency (Agència de Residus de Catalunya) will be in power for two years.

Mr. Tost i Borràs has committed to promoting the four working axes of ACR+ (the European Week for Waste Reduction, the Extended Producer Responsibility Club, the ACR+ European Observatory, and North-South cooperation), and proposed the creation of a working group on the future of waste management. He also stressed the possibility of cooperation between the ACR+MED platform, with a special focus on the Mediterranean area, and the Regional Activity Centre for Cleaner Production (CPRAC), created within the Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP).

The Board of Directors also elected four Vice-Presidents, each in charge of one of the above-mentioned working axes:

• Mr. Roberto Cavallo, COVAR14 (Italy);
• Mr. Jean-Pierre Hannequart, Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium);
• Mr. Fernando Leite, LIPOR (Portugal);
• Mr. Svend B. Poulsen, Odense Renovation (Denmark).