Denmark will be the last EU country to introduce extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging on 1 January 2025, thereby complying with existing EU law. However, manufacturers who market packaged products in Denmark must already register in the Danish DPA producer register. This is stipulated in the Implementing Regulation on the ...

A raid – this is how one reporter describes the publication of new copyright levies for games consoles, digital toys with integrated memory, virtual reality, data glasses with integrated memory ,and media centres ("high-performance multimedia hard drives" or NAS in Austria). From a factual point of view, this is not an inaccurate description of ...

The Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) on April 26, 2024 resulted in the newest version (6.4) of the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (CMRT), and the newest version (3.1) of Extended Mineral Reporting Template (EMRT). Primarily designed for the exchange of 3TG conflict minerals data across supply chains to ensure compliance with the U.S. ...

Now it is the European platforms and refurbishers themselves who are making a new attempt to oblige sellers to comply with the rules: in a self-disclosure (Back Market) or in stricter terms of delivery (Rakuten, Cdiscount and others), all sellers of refurbished smartphones and tablets are to state whether they pay copyright levies. This applies in ...