take-e-way News and Press Releases

“New EPR in France: Sports and Leisure Activities, Toys, DIY and Garden Tools” is the topic on Friday, 25 August 2023, at 10 am live in our Online Compliance Talk. You will have the opportunity to talk personally with other people affected. In order to ensure that our affected foreign customers also stand to benefit from added value, the event will be held in English. Accordingly, please feel free to recommend attendance at the event to your foreign partners as well.

The registration for packaging manufacturers must already have taken place by 01.01.2024, because the quantities from the previous year must already be reported and collected or recycled when the packaging regulation comes into force in January 2025. The declaration of the planned quantity for 2024 must take place in Q1 2024.

It can already be seen at this stage that take-e-way will reach the self-imposed target of 4,000 collection points in the take-e-back system.

On 15 May 2023, the new Single-Use Plastics Fund Act (EWKFondsG) was published in the German Federal Law Gazette and has thus come into force step by step since 16 May 2023. Affected products include plastic carrier bags, balloons and tobacco products.

The Dutch authorities will enhance actions against freeriding in 2023. If you sell or are planning to sell photovoltaic modules in the Netherlands, but have not registered as producer yet, this new development is of high relevance for you.

The lawyers demand the submission of a cease-and-desist order and a declaration of obligation, the reimbursement of the costs incurred by the test purchase as well as the reimbursement of the legal fees incurred.

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.