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Producer responsibility of third-country producers in e-commerce


In order to enforce producer responsibility under waste law against producers of electrical and electronic equipment, batteries and packaging from countries outside the EU, so-called third countries, a new study recommends adding two new actors into the law and create a compulsory verification for them. Producers from third countries mostly sell their products in Europe via electronic marketplaces and have them stored and shipped by fulfilment service providers. The operators of the electronic marketplaces and the fulfilment service providers have so far not met any obligations from the ElektroG, BattG and VerpackG, as they are neither producers nor distributors. However, they are the first players on European soil who make a significant contribution to placing products from third countries onto the market in Europe. It is therefore necessary to provide them with the obligation to check whether the producers of these products are fulfilling their producer responsibility and, for example, are correctly registered according to the ElektroG.

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Series
Texte | 191/2020
Number of pages
147
Year of publication
October 2020
Author(s)
Andreas Hermann, Dr. Peter Gailhofer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Schomerus
Further files
Presentation: Producer Responsibility in E-Commerce - regulatory options for the prevention of third country free-riders
Language
English
Other languages
Deutsch
Project No. (FKZ)
3718 34 334 0
Publisher
Umweltbundesamt
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Videomessage Dirk Messner: 4. EWEN Meeting (European WEEE Enforcement Network)
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 Free-rider  e-commerce  online trade  third countries  third country  electronic marketplace  online platform  EPR  fulfiment service provide

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