About us * Our Activities * Our Duties |
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Our tasks are defined individually and in detail in the contracts with our business partners. Our performance in general comprise the monitoring of the European and national regulations relevant for our contractual partner. Accordingly, we permanently follow the development or revision of EU regulations (ordinances and directives), but also national laws or standards (ISO, CEN, DIN), always with the focus on the relevance for certain polymers or converted plastics. Among the plastic-relevant horizontal regulations are in particular a few regulations in the area of product safety (general product safety directive, product liability law), ecology (waste framework directive, thematic strategy, waste prevention and recycling, IVU directive, waste law), consumer protection (consumer-political strategy 2007-2013, consumer information act) and last but not least the new European chemicals policy REACH. Packaging (packaging directive, packaging ordinance), materials with food contact (framework ordinance 1935/2004/EC, plastics directive, consumer goods regulation), construction products (construction products directive), electrical and electronics (WEE directive), automobile (ELV directive). |
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