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Timestamp: 2014-11-01 09:21:31
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1', '§ 130', '§ 2', '§ 3', '§ 10', '§ 6', '§6', '§7']

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The 6th amendment of the Packaging Ordinance came in force on July 24, 2014 and matches the German law with the regulations of the European Union. The key aspect of the 6th amendment is the clear demarcation of products and sales packaging regarding, e.g. winding cores of sanitary paper (sales packaging), planting pots (sales packaging) and toner cartridges (no sales packaging). The 7th amendment should avoid a destabilization of the German recycling system by preventing the abuse of the system by using loopholes in the packaging ordinance regarding industrial specific solutions and point of sale take back solutions. As such, the key aspects of the 7th amendment are that the regulations regarding the point of sale take back solution do not longer apply from October 1st, 2014, and the new regulations regarding the industrial specific solutions will apply from January 1st, 2015. Does the Packaging Ordinance (VerpackV) also apply for smaller packaging volumes?
Further information is available at www.pro-europe.org.
www.bmu.de/files/pdfs/allgemein/application/pdf/verpackv_4aenderung_en_bf.pdf
Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH also provides a waste management service for transport packaging. You will find further information here.
Costs for the disposal of transport packaging depend on the packaging material of the entire transport packaging used. The minimum payment is 500 € net / year. We can submit an individual quotation, on request. Simply fill in our questionnaire at: Qestionnaire.
To register, please use our internet portal „Online-Service“. This contains all important information needed about shipping and sales packaging, and you can directly enter into an agreement with us online. This is the link to our Online Service.
Since 1. May 2005 deposit duty has applied for disposal beverage packaging in the following beverage sectors:1.Beer (including alcohol-free beer) and beer mixed beverages,2.Mineral, spring, table and medicinal water and all other drinkable water,3.Refreshment drinks, sparkling and non-sparkling (especially lemonade including cola beverages, fizzy drinks, bitter drinks and ice-tea). Not included in refreshment drinks in terms of sentence 1 are fruit juices, fruit drinks, vegetable juice, vegetable drinks, beverages with a minimum share of 50 per cent of milk or products generated from milk, and mixes of such drinks as well as diet drinks in terms of § 1 sect. 2 letter c of the Diet Regulations provided exclusively for babies or small children,4.alcoholic mixed beverages whicha)have been produced usingaa)products subject to duty on spirits pursuant to § 130 Abs. 1 of the law on Spirits Monopoly, orbb)fermentation alcohol of beer, wine or products similar to wine, also in processed form which has been subjected to technical treatment which no longer complies with good production practice and has alcoholic strength of less than 15 %, orb)contain less than 50 per cent wine or products similar to wine, also in processed form.Deposit duty applies to manufacturers and distributors of disposable beverage packaging which is not ecologically advantageous.
The following disposable beverage packaging is considered as ecologically advantageous and is therefore not subject to a deposit:Beverage carton packaging (block and gable top packaging)Beverage polyethelene flowpack packagingFoil stand-up packagingYou will find more information and our offer concerning DSD deposit duty here.
The ElektroG includes:Large household equipment, automatic dispensersCooling equipment, equipment containing oilTelcommunications equipment, consumer electronics Gas discharge lampsSmall household equipment, lighting fittings, electrical and electronic tools, toys, sports and leisure equipment, medical products, monitoring and check instrumentsA complete list is available in § 2of the ElektroG.
Manufacturers pursuant to § 3 sect.. 11 and 12 ElektroG are all companies which, within the scope of the Act:manufacture and place into the market electrical and electronic equipment under their brand names,re-sell equipment of other providers under their brand names orimport or place equipment into the market in Germany for the first time, or import into another EU country and pass such equipment on there immediately to a user,culpably offer new equipment of a non-registered manufacturer for sale.
The local authorities provide collection containers for electrical and electronic equipment which are filled with waste equipment of the end consumers. When these are full, the local authority contacts the Foundation Elektro-Altgeräte-Register (EAR) (Electrical Waste Equipment Register), which then issues a collection order to one of the registered manufacturers in accordance with a specific distribution key. The appropriate collection container must be collected within a period of four days. If you have commissioned Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH in the EAR system as a disposal company, we will handle operations for you accordingly.
The main objectives of the European packaging objectives are the avoidance and reduction of environmental impact from packaging and packaging waste – with the concrete target of reducing packaging waste across Europe by 50 per cent. Other principles in the directive include the re-use and recycling of packaging waste in terms of material and energy. The directive specifies outline conditions and contents which all member states of the European Union have to implement into national law. As a result, each member state must execute the action required for the setting up of return, collection and recycling systems for used packaging. However, each country is at liberty to organize such systems itself.
There are now 33 members active across Europe and in Canada under the umbrella of PRO EUROPE; 24 of these use the Grüner Punkt as a licensing symbol for packaging recycling. In addition, PRO EUROPE has entered into cooperation agreements with similar systems in Great Britain (VALPAK), Canada (CSR), Finland (PYR), Iceland (Islandic Recycling Fund) and the Ukraine (UkrPEC), who ensure that legitimized license holders of the Grüner Punkt can distribute their packaging labelled with the symbol without any problems. You can find current information on the international use of the trademark „Der Grüne Punkt“ on the website of the umbrella organisation PRO EUROPE at www.pro-e.org.
To use the trademark, „Der Grüne Punkt“ you need to acquire a trademark license in the country ion which packaging labelled with the Grüner Punkt is distributed. To use the trademark, „Der Grüne Punkt“ in Germany, you need to conclude a trademark licence agreement with Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH. Another precondition is that the manufacturer/distributor fulfils the legal targets for such sales packaging, especially participation in a dual system. Does the German trade mark licence agreement also apply for the use of the trademark „Der Grüne Punkt“ in other countries?
An obligation to label exists in the following countries:FranceSpainPortugalGreeceCyprus
DSD GmbH offers contracts for the following services:Participation agreement for participation of sales packaging in the dual system of DSD GmbHTrademark licence agreement to use the trademark „Der Grüne Punkt“Contract for the disposal of transport packagingContract for facility waste managementElektroG service contract Deposit clearing contract
Who has to draw up and submit the declaration of compliance (DOC)?
In principle, the company which first places into the market the sales packaging which is specified for the private end consumer or comparable sources of waste is responsible for drawing up and submitting the DOC. If submission of the DOC is required, this is to be transmitted digitally by the company first placing the sales packaging into the market under www.ihk-ve-register.de. Companies which also place sales packaging into the market which ends up at industrial/commercial end consumers also need to include data on the fulfilment of recycling requirements for this type of packaging in the DOC.
Content and scope of the declaration of compliance result from the packaging ordinance (§ 10 VerpackV). This especially has to include data on type of material and mass of all sales packaging entered onto the market in the previous calendar year. These are divided into:Participation in dual systems (§ 6 (1) VerpackV)Participation in sector solution systems (§6 (2) VerpackV)Deliveries to non-private end consumers such as large companies and industry (§7 VerpackV)
Regulation for submission of the DOC is based on minimum volumes. The certified declaration of compliance is to be submitted each year, if the following volumes of packaging placed into the market are exceeded:Glass> 80,000 kg/year orPaper, cardboard, boxes> 50,000 kg/year orOther*> 30.000 kg/year(*Aluminium, plastic, compounds, tin plate)
More information on the procedure concerning the declaration of compliance is available at www.ihk-ve-register.de.