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VERE provides lobbying for SME's regarding environmental laws and transfers the issues into the political debate

The Association for the take-back and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (VERE e.V.) is an international community for optimal organisation and handling of all requirements, obligations and consequences for producers, importers and distributors of non-food products and their packaging resulting from EU law and the national laws derived from it.

When the association was founded, VERE’s focus was, as its name suggests, on the German implementation of the European WEEE Directive, the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG). Today, in addition to extended producer responsibility in the form of the WEEE Directive, EU Battery Directive or EU Packaging Directive, VERE’s activities also concentrate on product compliance issues such as under the European Product Safety Regulation or the Product Liability Directive or the Ecodesign Regulation. VERE also closely monitors developments in connection with the European Green Deal on behalf of its members. As an influential association across the EU, VERE is a key campaigner against country-specific labels that hinder the free movement of goods in the EU’s single market.

In the spirit of fair competition, VERE is particularly, but not exclusively, committed to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and micro-enterprises. The VERE association is the only organisation that effectively represents the interests of “the little ones” in the implementation and fulfilment of the strongly increasing requirements and also secures their rights. VERE thus occupies a niche. VERE meanwhile has over 4,000 members and is listed in the EU Transparency Register and the Lobby Register of the Deutscher Bundestag.

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No SME representative

The President has decided to suspend the reopening of the selection procedures for the position of SME Envoy until after the European elections.

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#LithiumUnites is an Ecocrowd project

The VERE Association offers an aid package against fire risks from lithium batteries, which contains information texts and instructions, information inserts for product packaging, information stickers for the battery compartments of electrical appliances in German language as well as masking tape for the terminals of lithium batteries.

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#LithiumUnites against fire risks

The German recycling infrastructure is being increasingly thinned out, companies are having to close and jobs are being lost, jeopardising the goal of a sustainable circular economy for raw materials. Under the motto #LithiumUnites, the campaign of the sellers and producers organised in the VERE Association brings together all those involved to actively tackle the problem. Find out more and support now!

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VERE, a guardian for SME's

VERE, a guardian for SME's

The VERE Association provides lobbying while constantly maintaining its political neutrality. As a guardian for small and medium-sized enterprises VERE attends to the problems, concerns and grievances of its members and transfers the issues into the political debate.

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Buhck Gruppe
Buhck Gruppe
BVS – Bundesverband des Spielwaren-Einzelhandels e.V.
BVS – Bundesverband des Spielwaren-Einzelhandels e.V.
BVT – Bundesverband Technik des Einzelhandels e.V.
BVT – Bundesverband Technik des Einzelhandels e.V.
Elektro-Gemeinschaft Hamburg
Elektro-Gemeinschaft Hamburg
EHTW – Entsorgungsverband Hessischer und Thüringischer Wirtschaftsunternehmen GmbH
EHTW – Entsorgungsverband Hessischer und Thüringischer Wirtschaftsunternehmen GmbH
ENH – Entsorgungsverband des Norddeutschen Handwerks e.V.
ENH – Entsorgungsverband des Norddeutschen Handwerks e.V.
FHE – Entsorgungsverband – Gesellschaft zur Durchführung von Verbandslösungen und Dienstleistungen GmbH
FHE – Entsorgungsverband – Gesellschaft zur Durchführung von Verbandslösungen und Dienstleistungen GmbH
GDM – Gesellschaft für Dienstleistungsmanagement GmbH & Co. KG
GDM – Gesellschaft für Dienstleistungsmanagement GmbH & Co. KG
GWW – Gesamtverband der Werbeartikel-Wirtschaft e.V.
GWW – Gesamtverband der Werbeartikel-Wirtschaft e.V.
IT-Recht Kanzlei
IT-Recht Kanzlei
REISSWOLF International AG
REISSWOLF International AG
trade-e-bility GmbH
trade-e-bility GmbH
Stiftung Gemeinsames Rücknahmesystem Batterien (GRS Batterien)
Stiftung Gemeinsames Rücknahmesystem Batterien (GRS Batterien)
take-e-way GmbH
take-e-way GmbH
VFI - Verband der Fertigwarenimporteure e.V.
VFI - Verband der Fertigwarenimporteure e.V.
Verein sicherer und seriöser Internetshopbetreiber e.V.
Verein sicherer und seriöser Internetshopbetreiber e.V.
WGA – Wirtschaftsvereinigung Groß- und Außenhandel Hamburg e.V.
WGA – Wirtschaftsvereinigung Groß- und Außenhandel Hamburg e.V.
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