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Press releases & news

Below you will find selected information and releases from the Stiftung Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (Foundation Central Agency Packaging Register – ZSVR) on the Verpackungsgesetz (Packaging Act) and the work of the ZSVR.

For all information and press releases on our German website please click here.

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Launch of the LUCID Packaging Register: Heightened transparency fosters greater fairness in collection and recycling

Four months before the German Packaging Act enters into force, the LUCID Packaging Register has gone online. Every party placing packaged consumer goods on the German market for the first time has to be registered there as of 1 January 2019, with…

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ZSVR ends practice of defining packaging as 'out of scope' – and creates a catalogue for (nearly) every packaging

In future, it will be possible to determine whether packaging is subject to system participation conclusively and with legal certainty. The Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (Central Agency Packaging Register – ZSVR) has created a catalogue that…

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ZSVR presents Guidelines for the Assessment of the Recyclability of Packaging

Packaging which is only partially suitable for recycling, or which cannot be recycled as well, will be more expensive in Germany as of next year. Today, the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (Central Agency Packaging Register) – the new authority…

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Manufacturer obligations in 2018 pursuant to section 6(1) of the German Packaging Act

As of 1 January 2019, one of responsibilities of the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (Central Agency Packaging Register) will be to check the declarations of completeness provided by manufacturers of packaging subject to system participation.…

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Constitution of the Bodies set – Foundation Bodies of the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (Central Agency Packaging Register) begin Work

The constituting meeting of the administrative board yesterday marked the start of duties for the last of the four legally prescribed governing bodies of the Stiftung Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (Foundation Central Agency Packaging…

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