{"id":82741,"date":"2023-07-07T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=82741"},"modified":"2023-07-07T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T10:06:10","slug":"gruener-punkt-sues-successfully-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/gruener-punkt-klagt-erfolgreich-in-frankreich\/","title":{"rendered":"French administrative court rules in favour of the Green Dot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The French Supreme Administrative Court has upheld an appeal by Der Gr\u00fcne Punkt and PRO Europe to annul a decree issued by the French Ministry of the Environment in 2020. The \u201cDer Gr\u00fcne Punkt\u201d financing symbol can therefore continue to be affixed to packaging in France without additional charges.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The relevant passage in the French Environmental Code (Code de l'Environnement) stipulates that double the participation fee must be paid in France for packaging placed on the market<\/strong>, if this packaging contains symbols \u201cwhich are likely to confuse the consumer in matters of waste separation\u201c.<\/p>

In a decree subsequently published by the French Ministry of the Environment, \u201cDer Gr\u00fcne Punkt\u201d was defined as a confusing symbol, although the brand has been an international financing symbol for packaging recycling systems for over 30 years. This regulation, if implemented, would have considerable effort and additional costs, especially for companies that deliver packaged products to France<\/strong> in the millions in some cases.<\/p>

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The French Supreme Administrative Court has has now annulled the decree of the French Ministry of the Environment with reference to the Green Dot.<\/strong> The main reason given for the decision was that the French authorities had not sufficiently fulfilled their obligation to notify the European Commission of the proposed legislation.<\/p>

Der Gr\u00fcne Punkt and PRO Europe welcome the Decision<\/a> of the French administrative court.<\/p>

Source:<\/em> The Green Dot<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The French Supreme Administrative Court upholds the appeal by Green Dot and PRO Europe and declares the planned \u201emalus\u201c for the use of the trade mark on packaging in France null and void.","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":82742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"Das oberste franz\u00f6sische Verwaltungsgericht gibt einer Klage von Gr\u00fcnem Punkt und PRO Europe statt.","rank_math_focus_keyword":"Verwaltungsgericht","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[65,43,60008,31,59142],"class_list":{"0":"post-82741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aus-den-unternehmen-news","8":"tag-abfalltechnik-und-recycling","9":"tag-aus-den-unternehmen","10":"tag-der-gruene-punkt","11":"tag-nachhaltigkeit-und-green-packaging","12":"tag-news-express","13":"cs-entry","14":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}