On January 17, 2024, the European Parliament gave final approval to a directive that will improve product labeling and prohibit the use of misleading environmental claims.
The directive is Empowering consumers for the green transition and aims to protect consumers from misleading marketing prac...
Recently, the German government announced that it would postpone the implementation of the "plastic tax" for one year to January 1, 2025, saying that the move was "in order to buy more time to develop an effective solution with as little bureaucracy as possible".
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Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Administrative Council, has issued a resolution to implement the plastic ban in phases.
From January 1, 2024 the import and trade of single-use plastic bags will be banned.
Starting June 1, 2024, no...
On December 18, it was reported that Steffen Hebestreit, a spokesman for the German government, confirmed that the federal government aims to impose a fee on companies responsible for introducing plastics into the market. The expected consequence is that these companies may pass on the costs incurre...
As the world's largest consumer of sugar, on December 7, India's official Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs in charge of the sugar industry, a government document officially announced:
The government document, which essentially means that in order to ensure adequate supply of sugar in India...
Following in the footsteps of Spain and the UK, Germany is introducing its own "plastic tax". The German Primary Plastics Fund Act (act) was established in May 2023, thus putting the Article 8:1-7 Primary Plastics Directive into legal effect and establishing the legal basis for the im...
The sale of microplastics in all areas of the European Union will be gradually banned, DPA Brussels reported on September 25th. According to a new regulation by the European Commission, the sale of microplastics per se, as well as products to which microplastics have been added and which releas...
REACH, which stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals, is a regulation that ensures the safe entry and use of chemicals in the European Union. The REACH certification regulation (EC 1907/2006) came into force on June 1, 2007, and has been officially implem...
In accordance with the requirements of Law 7/2022 of April 8, 2022, enacted in Spain, as of January 1, 2023, Spain began to impose a tax on plastics for non-reusable packaging, which involves the producer, the importer, and the internal inter-community (intra-community) purchases, and is an indirect...
From October 1, 2023, England will ban a range of single-use plastic products, such as cutlery, plates and bowls, in an effort to limit plastic pollution. A similar ban has already been implemented in Scotland, and England has banned single-use plastic straws, stir sticks and plastic swab stick...
