„No national solo efforts“

An amendment to the Packaging Act is to be implemented just before the deadline. Many SMEs are rightly saying, what's the point? Are we now changing something in Germany that may have to be reversed in a year and a half? We are starting to go it alone again at a national level, when we are all trying to create a single European market wherever possible. There is no longer one German market and one French market and so on, many companies have shares in the export business. If different measures are taken in different countries, this will at some point overwhelm small and medium-sized enterprises in particular. That is why we are in favour of a standardised European approach.