#ppwr

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rapporteur/117473441008696622 The protests helped! "The European Parliament has decisively backed the suspension of a requirement for small businesses to appoint an agent in every EU country they ship to, to ensure compliance with waste-reduction laws." https://www.rapporteur.com/news/meps-back-small-business-exemption-from-costly-waste-reduction-compliance/ #GoodNews #PPWR #artists #crafters #microentreprise #smallBusiness #microenterprise #EU

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/117474817880134546 UPDATE2: There've been new developements: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/117486094261932225 🚨 Please read & act if you're running a small online shop in the EU or are even just a customer of one: These people need your urgent support. Otherwise the still new EU-wide packaging & waste regulation (PPWR) as it currently stands and is in full effect WILL kill most of the small businesses in the EU, incl. the livelihoods of artists, designers, illustrators, makers etc. who're trying to survive by selling physical goods online... The legislation already came online in August, but it's been an utter bureaucratic mess! Official communication and clarification was even worse/absent for many weeks since rollout. An exemption from the most damaging parts for nano/micro-businesses was only voted[1][2] on in parliament today (almost 60(!) days after introduction), but with positive outcome. However, this support by parliament is only a small win and we need more pressure on MEPs to clarify the severity of this situation for the next round(s) of negotiation with the EU Council and member states. To clarify: The most damaging & costly part of this regulation is the requirement for a legal representative in each EU country you want to ship to. The cost of a single representative is several hundred Euro per yer per country. If you're intending to sell to the entire EU, that's worst case 27 middlemen to pay, i.e. (tens of) thousands of Euro in just regulatory fees every single year. It's completely unrealistic, disproportional, nonsensical and against every aspect of the single market principles... It is now easier to sell to outside the EU than it is to sell inside the EU! Make it make sense! The only people this regulation benefits are major retailers and the growing compliance industry! Please boost for visibility! Thank you! 🙏 (Update: added link, punctuation) [1] https://packaging-journal.de/en/the-european-parliament-wants-to-simplify-the-epr-requirements-only-for-small-companies/ [2] https://www.rapporteur.com/news/meps-back-small-business-exemption-from-costly-waste-reduction-compliance/ #PPWR #EU #SME #SaveMicroEnterprises #Legislation #WriteToYourMEP

@NatureMC@mastodon.online Not quite helped enough! As this post[1] on IG explains more, this vote[2] only means negotiations with the council can commence, but there is no other practical outcome yet and several member states (incl. Austria, France, Germany, Spain) are actually against the exemption! This really is outrageous and we urgently need to put pressure on our MEPs in these countries. They're outright killing thousands of SMEs with this legislation! Albeit a different topic, the FightChatControl website has a tool to find & copy email addresses of all MEPs for your country. Use this to write a letter to your representatives explaining the situation and severity of not supporting an exemption for micro enterprises... https://fightchatcontrol.eu [1] https://www.instagram.com/eu.mea.hq/p/DeuOg7yjbW1/ [2] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sedcms/votingList/A10-0266_Ter_Laak.pdf #PPWR #SME #SaveMicroEnterprises #EU #Legislation #WriteToYourMEP

Der Deutsche Imkerbund hat Hinweise zu neuen VerpackungsVO herausgegeben. Nachzulesen hier: https://deutscherimkerbund.de/hinweise-zur-neuen-verpackungsvo/ Kurzzusammenfassung: Liebhaberei-Imkereien (bis 30 Völker) gelten steuerlich nicht als gewerbsmäßig tätig. Für (D.I.B.)Honiggläser gilt: „Pfandglas“ nur bei Teilnahme an einem echten Pfandsystem. Empfohlen wird daher die Kennzeichnung „Mehrwegglas“. Die bisherigen Verpackungen dürfen grundsätzlich weiter verwendet werden; die genaue Rechtslage entwickelt sich noch. #PPWR #Imker

📦 The new #PPWR could make cross-border EU sales impossible for SMEs. Shipping one book to Hungary? Potentially ~€1,800 in compliance costs. 99.8% of EU businesses are SMEs. Why not one EU platform, one filing system and sensible thresholds? 🪦 Don’t kill the Single Market for small businesses. 🇪🇺 Let’s change it via a European Citizens’ Initiative. Join the 1 million. 👉🏻

Due to the new EU law that comes to effect on Aug 12, I will be *pausing* shipping to other EU countries in my shop. I hope this is just temporary, but once again micro biz are being ignored. I still ship locally and to European countries not in EU and countries outside Europe. If you'd like to nab something before I have to pause shipping to EU, you can use 'PauseEU' code at checkout for 20% off, deadline is Monday. Petition is here: https://c.org/ZxyqTDQnT7 #EU #ppwr #EuropeanUnion

Ich hätte echt so gerne Wero eingebaut ... jetzt bastel ich zur Strafe also an der Doku für die #PPWR - die EU-Verpackungs- und Verpackungsabfallverordnung 🤪 also auch das ist wahrscheinlich auch sowas, was sich kein Mensch mehr ansieht, wenn die Dokumentation (hoffentlich bald) im Schrank ankommt ...