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Sep 2019
Meet us at Eurobike in Friedrichshafen and IFA in Berlin
On 03 , Sep 2019 | In | By Lisa Schmidt
Eurobike in Friedrichshafen: Thursday, 05.09.2019 IFA in Berlin: Monday, 09.09.2019 or Tuesday, 10.09.2019 Your contact to us: +49 7031 43938-0 contact@1cc-consulting.com We look forward to your contact request and a personal meeting.
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Aug 2019
German authorities prosecute infringements against German Packaging Law
On 16 , Aug 2019 | In | By Gisa Scheschonka
In July, the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (ZSVR) has contacted dozens of thousands of producers that are not fully compliant with the legal requirements of the German Packaging Law (VerpackG). The most common lacks of compliance relate to: missing registration with packaging register (LUCID) missing system participation (membership with a ...
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Jul 2019
ECHA publishes updated Candidate List
On 18 , Jul 2019 | In | By Ute Binder
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published the new REACH Candidate List on July 16, 2019: Four Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) were added to the list. The Candidate List of substances of very high concern for Authorization now contains 201 substances. The newly added substances have many different uses. For instance, 2-methoxyethyl ...
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Jul 2019
Update on Saudi Arabia`s Technical Regulation for Oxo-Biodegradable Plastic Material
On 16 , Jul 2019 | In | By Gisa Scheschonka
The implementation of the Technical Regulation (TR) No. 947 on Degradable Plastic Material, published in October 2016 in the Saudi official Gazette has been postponed for the second time. In January of this year, the Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO) postponed the registration for Phase II and Phase III products under the ...
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Jul 2019
Ban of plastic bags - more countries join the fight against plastic pollution
On 16 , Jul 2019 | In | By Gisa Scheschonka
As an environmental consulting company based in Germany, we’ve been monitoring the enthusiasm of our neighboring countries’ efforts to reduce, or ban plastic bags from supermarkets. In the EU, such measures are triggered by Directive (EC) 720/2015, which aims at reducing the amount of distributed plastic carrier bags. EU-member states are called ...
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Jul 2019
More products and more companies affected by copyright levies in Germany
On 16 , Jul 2019 | In | By Wolfram Kühn
Two important agreements on copyright levies were reached in May and June of this year: Levies for various consumer electronics devices were agreed upon and defined, and collecting societies and industry agreed assented to the new level of fees for USB sticks and memory cards. It has always been the intention of the German collecting societies to ...
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Jul 2019
Update - the current statement of the ElektroG novella
On 16 , Jul 2019 | In | By Julia Feuring
End of June 2019, the associations Bitkom (Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien e.V.) and ZVEI (Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektroindustrie e.V.) submitted an official statement to the BMU (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit) regarding the upcoming amendment to the ElektroG. ...
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Jul 2019
China RoHS II - Update on new requirements
On 16 , Jul 2019 | In | By Katharina Rehders
Conformity assessment system published Following the entry into force of China’s RoHS II management catalogue in March 2019, the new Chinese market surveillance authority SAMR (State Administration for Market Regulation) added another piece to the puzzle to China’s RoHS II by publishing the long-awaited rules for a conformity assessment system on ...
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Jul 2019
EU-RoHS: Open Scope and new substance restrictions as of 22 July 2019
On 16 , Jul 2019 | In | By Ute Binder
Phthalates become restricted substances: The scope of the EU RoHS Directive (2011/65/EU) will change once again as of 22 July 2019. As implemented by amending Directive 2015/863, four new substances will be added to the list of restricted substances and their use to a maximum concentration of 0,1% in homogeneous material: . ...
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Jul 2019
1cc - Team news
On 16 , Jul 2019 | In | By Lisa Schmidt
Nina Farcic joined the 1cc team as a Monitoring Specialist in April 2019. She successfully completed her Master’s degree in Italian and Sociology in Croatia. In addition, Nina is a certified court interpreter for Italian and speaks fluent Croatian, English and German. After completing her studies, Nina worked in the customer service. She is ...