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After an initial debate, the German Bundestag referred the bill to the Environment Committee for further discussion. Prior to this, the Federal Cabinet had approved the draft bill submitted by the Federal Ministry for the Environment for a law to harmonise national law with the EU Batteries Regulation.

The VERE Association welcomes the appointment of Gitta Connemann as the Federal Government's Commissioner for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Today more than ever, SMEs need her hands-on personality, which is always focussed on the matter in hand rather than ideology.

The VERE e.V. expressly welcomes the consideration of the criticism previously expressed by the association regarding the amount of the security deposit for industrial batteries, in addition to the clearly expressed points of criticism. VERE points out, among other things, that the placing of industrial batteries on the market becomes more expensive due to the security deposit and thus the incentives to circumvent the law remain high.

The new EU Single Market Strategy focuses on removing the "Terrible Ten", i.e. the ten most harmful barriers reported by businesses, including in particular fragmented rules on packaging, labelling and waste (rank 6) and lack of product compliance (rank 7). Here you will find the most important proposed actions.

Electrical appliances, batteries, packaging, textiles, supply chain law, EUDR, CBAM, CSRD and CSDDD are affected. The VERE Association has summarised below the passages of the coalition agreement that are important for producers, sellers and importers of non-food products.

Producers and sellers are invited to request a free aid package containing instructions and materials for the safe disposal of batteries, especially for German consumers.

The Commission wants to take stricter action against unnecessary national rules and, if necessary, take legal action against member states that violate the deregulation requirements.

The German Federal Council demands that the Federal Government strictly adheres to the EU requirements in future and does not introduce any additional national regulations.

The VERE Association presents below the salient contents of the Competitiveness Compass, the European Commission's new 5-year plan, for sellers and producers.

Every company that demonstrably recruits a new VERE e.V. member receives 30 minutes of free product compliance advice from trade-e-bility.