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EU Packaging Rule Change Prompts Confusion, Online Shops Halt Foreign Orders

Since last Wednesday, a new packaging and packaging‑waste regulation has been in force in the European Union. One of the changes requires businesses to register in the producer register of every member state where they sell goods.

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Lidl criticizes the new EU packaging regulation: too much legal uncertainty, threatening lawsuits. The discounter demands more time to implement it.

·Essen, Germany
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Gitta Connemann (CDU), chairman of the middle class and economic union, sharply criticizes the new EU packaging regulation: "Europe had started to remove bats. Now bureaucracy borders are being raised.

·Berlin, Germany
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Ave Schank-Lukas, Head of the European Commission's Representation in Estonia, explains what caused the confusion around the packaging regulation and what can be changed in it. The 27 national registers that have caused outrage among artists are not going away, but the requirements that must be submitted in them in the future are being harmonized.

The European Union is discussing the abandonment of the law on “climate-neutral” packaging, which forces even small businesses to spend money on a large bureaucracy, writes Die Welt. We are talking about PPWR (aka Regulation 2025/40), a new European law that was supposed to make trade in the EU “greener”. Manufacturers were obliged to create wrappers and boxes that would minimize the presence of harmful substances, protect human health and the e…

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