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Please contact us if you need any help and solutions for your obligations and requirements for compliance with the European WEEE Directive and especially the German Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act. We will help you and advise you for free: VERE Association for the take-back and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (VERE e.V. registered association).
Telephone: +49 (0) 40 / 75 06 87 -…
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The German Central Organisation for Private Copying Rights (ZPÜ) asserts remuneration claims for devices and blank media against producers and importers on behalf of nine German collecting societies. The ZPÜ recently wrote to numerous IT companies and is now also demanding information and a device levy for game consoles. Affected VERE members can take advantage of a free initial consultation with lawyer Dr Urs Verweyen.
According to information…
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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.
As reported by the Bundestag, it discussed battery law on 26 June 2025. To this end, the CDU/CSU and SPD coalition parties presented a bill to…
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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.
After the office of SME representative has remained vacant at EU level to this day (VERE reported: No SME representative), the Federal Cabinet appointed Gitta Connemann,…
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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.
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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.
As reported by the European Commission, it presented a single market strategy on 21 May 2025 to create a simpler, more seamless and…
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The Association for the take-back and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (VERE e.V.) is an international community for optimal organisation and handling of all requirements, obligations and consequences for producers, importers and distributors of non-food products and their packaging resulting from EU law and the national laws derived from it.
When the association was founded, VERE’s focus was, as its name suggests, on…
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Who We Are In the VERE e.V., an Association for the take-back and recycling of old electrical and electronic equipment, over 4,000 producers and retailers of electrical appliances are organised.
Board members Oliver Friedrichs, Hjalmar Vierle and Martin Büscher, as well as the association's dedicated employees, have launched the #LithiumUnites initiative.
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Dear VERE members, dear e-systems customers,
eleven years ago, we met for the first time in Berlin to discuss the daily challenges of extended producer responsibility as a “trade barrier or solvable task” with representatives of business circles, public authorities and ministries.
After the Corona pandemic, at the end of 2022, a year that will certainly remembered for the “EPR” topic, we are here again together with you in Berlin today,…
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VERE Association Press Contact
VERE Association for the take-back and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (VERE e.V. registered association)
Christoph Brellinger Executive secretary
Schlossstr. 8 d-e 22041 Hamburg Germany
Tel: +49 (0)40/750687-111 Fax: +49 (0)40/750687-101
EMail: press(at)vereev.de https://www.vereev.com
VERE Association Press Contact
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