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Date: 19.03.2024
The VERE Association offers an aid package against fire risks from lithium batteries, which contains information texts and instructions, information inserts for product packaging, information stickers for the battery compartments of electrical appliances in German language as well as masking tape for the terminals of lithium batteries.
EcoCrowd is the first sustainable crowdfunding platform, initiated in 2014 by the German Environmental…
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Date: 29.04.2024
The President has decided to suspend the reopening of the selection procedures for the position of SME Envoy until after the European elections.
The EU Commission reports that the President regrets Markus Pieper's decision not to take up his post as SME Envoy on 16 April 2024 as planned. The EU Envoy is to work with business organisations to lobby the Commission for the special concerns and needs of SMEs, in particular to reduce the bureaucratic…
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Date: 03.12.2024
Every company that demonstrably recruits a new VERE e.V. member receives 30 minutes of free product compliance advice from trade-e-bility.
The customers of the e-systems group (take-e-way, trade-e-bility, get-e-right) are organised in the VERE e.V. association in order to have their interests represented at the political level for equal and fair competitive conditions. The association has over 4,000 members, has been active for more than 20…
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Date: 10.02.2025
The VERE Association presents below the salient contents of the Competitiveness Compass, the European Commission's new 5-year plan, for sellers and producers.
After years of the so-called “Green Deal”, the EU Commission has become aware of the extent of the bureaucracy it has created. Therefore, on 29 January 2025, the Commission presented its programme for the next five years, “A Competitiveness Compass for the EU”.
The 26-page document reads…
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Date: 21.02.2025
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.
As reported by the German Federal Council (Bundesrat), strengthening the European single market and combating bureaucracy are the aims of a resolution passed by the Bundesrat on 14 February 2025 at the initiative of the Federal State of Hessen. It is directed against "gold…
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Date: 11.03.2025
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.
VERE recently reported: "Federal Council against gold plating". This was about the overfulfilment of European law requirements, especially by the German government. Gold plating is now also an issue at EU level. On 12 February 2025, the European Commission announced…
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Date: 14.04.2025
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.
The 2025 coalition agreement between the CDU, CSU and SPD entitled "Responsibility for Germany" sets out the political roadmap for the 21st legislative period in Germany. It…
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Date: 17.06.2025
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…
News
Date: 17.06.2025
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.
As…
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Date: 30.06.2025
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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