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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The German recycling infrastructure is being increasingly thinned out, companies are having to close and jobs are being lost, jeopardising the goal of a sustainable circular economy for raw materials. Under the motto #LithiumUnites, the campaign of the sellers and producers organised in the VERE Association brings together all those involved to actively tackle the problem. Find out more and support now!
Lithium batteries are the driving force…
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The EU Representative will work with business organisations to lobby the Commission on the specific concerns and needs of SMEs, in particular to reduce the bureaucratic burden on our companies.
As reported by the EU Commission, the Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU/CSU group, Markus Pieper (CDU), has been appointed EU Envoy for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) on 31 January 2024. He will report directly to President Ursula von der…
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Fortunately, the fees for many services of the EAR foundation could be kept stable or even reduced, which leads to financial relief. One exception is the quarterly fee, which unfortunately had to be increased.
The new Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act-Battery Act Fee Ordinance (ElektroGBattGGebV 2024) came into force at the turn of the year. As a result, numerous VERE members contacted us about rising fees, in particular the quarterly fee,…
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