The BattG applies to all types of batteries, regardless of shape, size, mass, material composition or use. It also applies to batteries that are incorporated into or added to other products. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe Battery Regulation applies to all categories of batteries, regardless of shape, volume, weight, design, material composition, type, chemical composition, use or purpose, also regardless of whether they are built into other products, are added to them or are designed for this purpose. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe Biocidal Products Regulation applies to biocidal products and treated articles. Annex V contains a list of the types of biocidal products and their description. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe purpose of the KrWG is to promote the circular economy in order to conserve natural resources and to ensure the protection of people and the environment in the generation and management of waste. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe CLP Regulation generally applies to all substances and mixtures and, in exceptional cases, also to articles. Exceptions exist, for example, for certain radioactive substances and waste. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenAs the regulation of due diligence obligations in the supply chain continues to increase (for example, in the LkSG and the recently enacted EU Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)), practice shows that customer inquiries regarding these obligations are also on the rise. These inquiries often ask for a wide range of information, so even actors who are not Union importers in the sense of the Conflict Minerals Regulation may still be asked to provide relevant confirmations. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenCertain requirements for non-financial reporting by specific large public-interest companies were already included in the Directive 2013/34/EU. However, the EU legislator deemed these provisions insufficient and significantly expanded them both in terms of content and scope of applicability through the new directive. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishes a legislative framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products (ecodesign requirements). The aim of the regulation is to improve the environmental sustainability of products and reduce their carbon footprint and environmental footprint over their entire life cycle. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe ElektroG specifies product responsibility requirements for electrical and electronic equipment. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenAccording to Sec. 1 (1), the ElektroStoffV applies to all electrical and electronic equipment. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenSpecific labelling requirements and obligations do not arise directly from Regulation (EU) 2017/1369, but from product-specific regulations based on Regulation (EU) 2017/1369, which cover 17 specific product groups at the moment. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe CSDDD applies to all companies based in the EU that had an average of more than 1,000 employees and a global net turnover of more than € 450 million in the previous financial year, regardless of sector or product. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe FLR applies across all industries and products to all economic operators, Art. 1 FLR. ‘Economic operator’ refers to. The Regulation applies comprehensively and is not limited to large market players or particular branches with high risks of forced labour. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenWe provide an overview of relevant legal topics in the area of advertising with ESG statements ("environmental, social, governance"). As there is no uniform legal framework for this, but rather requirements from various national and European legal acts must be taken into account, these are presented here in an overview.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenWe provide an overview of the "Amendment of the Waste Framework Directive - Extended producer responsibility for textiles" and "Right to repair".
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe VerpackG applies to all packaging, regardless of the packaging material and the packaged products. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe Packaging Regulation applies to all packaging, regardless of the material used, and to all packaging waste, regardless of whether the waste is generated or used in industry, other manufacturing, retail or distribution businesses, administration, the service sector, or households. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe POP Regulation sets out detailed requirements regarding the manufacture, placing on the market, use and release of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe REACH Regulation applies in principle to all substances and mixtures and covers the manufacture, placing on the market and use of substances on their own, in mixtures or in articles as well as the placing on the market of mixtures. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenCompared to the previous EU Timber Regulation, the scope of application has been significantly expanded in the EUDR and includes the following raw materials and certain products made from them: Cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soy and wood. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenRegulation (EU) No 1007/2011 applies in principle to all textile products when they are made available on the Union market. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe Waste Shipment Regulation regulates procedures and controls for the shipment of waste, which depend on the origin, destination, transport route, type of waste shipped, and the treatment of the waste shipped at the destination. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe fluorinated greenhouse gases covered by the F-Gas Regulation are listed in Annex I of the F-Gas Regulation and include partially fluorinated hydrocarbons, perfluorinated hydrocarbons, sulphur hexafluoride and other greenhouse gases that also contain fluorine. We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
Mehr lesenThe EWKKennzV, the EWKVerbotsV and the EWKFondsG as well as the EWKFondsV serve to implement Directive (EU) 2019/904 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (SUP Directive). We provide an overview of: publication status, background, scope of application, roles, obligations, and latest news.
31.07.2025
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