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Games manufacturers have so far not made use of the private copying remuneration from the manufacturers of PCs, smartphones and storage media and have now founded a collecting society through which they can get their legal share in Germany in future.

On 14/04/2023, the Polish Parliament has passed a law implementing the provisions of the Single-Use Plastics Directive (EU) 2019/904 into the Polish legal system.

The party filing the admonition bases its claims on competition law and demands, in addition to the submission of a cease-and-desist declaration with a penalty clause, the reimbursement of costs on the basis of a value in dispute in the amount of € 4,000.00.

Assemblers, companies that only assemble the electrical and electronic equipment (i.e. computers) with different components, can be producers according to ElektroG. A promotional product supplier can be a producer with a registration obligation if he produces electrical and electronic equipment himself and labels these with his own brand name.

Today we would like to inform you about upcoming changes in Finland. These concern packaging, batteries, disposable plastics, balloons, wet wipes, beverage cups, fishing equipment, tobacco products, textiles, cosmetics and medical products.

Companies that produce single-use plastic products such as to-go cups, lightweight carrier bags, wet wipes, balloons, tobacco filters and plastic parts for fireworks are now to pay an annual levy into a central single-use plastic fund managed by the Federal Environment Agency. Amendments to the legislative draft now provide, among other things, for the law to be evaluated as soon as possible at the request of the municipalities and, if necessary, extended to other products.

In the opinion of the Bundesrat, at EU level the orientation of the planned Ecodesign Regulation towards the circular economy and resource protection could, among other things, but not exclusively, be suitable for preventing disposable e-cigarettes from being placed on the market.