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EU Packaging Rules Create Another Bureaucratic Monster
EU Packaging Rules Create Another Bureaucratic Monster
Submitted by Thomas Kolbe
Regulation follows regulation. On August 12, the so-called EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) will enter into force, reorganizing the recycling framework for packaging across Europe. Adopted last year, the regulation becomes binding for all EU member states and companies on August 12 and, as an EU regulation, does not require transposition into national law. The PPWR will replace the current patchwork of national packaging recycling laws with a unified framework for the EU single market. Until then, Germany’s...
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There was a time when politics occupied only a compartment of life.
A citizen might vote, follow public affairs, argue over taxes or foreign policy and then return to the ordinary business of living: work, worship, family, literature, music, sport, conviviality.
This older balance has been upended.
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