Umwelt
Ihre Unterstützung zählt: Muster-Schreiben an die EU zur PPWR
Ihre Stimme ist gefragt: Die Umsetzung der PPWR führt in vielen Betrieben zu erheblichen Belastungen. Damit diese Folgen in Brüssel nicht ungehört bleiben, sollten Unternehmen ihre Erfahrungen direkt an die EU-Kommission weitergeben. Nutzen Sie dazu unsere vorbereiteten Textbausteine und erstellen Sie Ihre persönliche Stellungnahme. Jede einzelne Rückmeldung erhöht die Sichtbarkeit der tatsächlichen Herausforderungen im Unternehmensalltag und stärkt die Forderung nach praxistauglichen Lösungen.
Der Brief an die EU-Kommission sollte auf Englisch sein. Eine deutsche Übersetzung der Bausteine (nicht barrierefrei, PDF-Datei · 136 KB) finden Sie hier.
So erstellen Sie Ihre Stellungnahme
1. Erstellen Sie einen Brief adressiert an:
Ms. Jessika Roswall
Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy
European Commission
Rue de la Loi 200
1049 Brussels
Belgium
Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy
European Commission
Rue de la Loi 200
1049 Brussels
Belgium
2. Fügen Sie die untenstehenden Bausteine ein (Einleitung, Beispiele aus der Praxis, Abschluss).
3. Zu Beispiele aus der Praxis: hier können Sie die vorgegebenen Beispiele nutzen, sofern diese auf Sie zutreffen und/ oder Ihre persönlichen Herausforderungen schildern. Nutzen Sie diese Möglichkeit für Ihre eigenen Beispiele.
4. Fügen Sie Ihre Firmenadresse/ Unterschrift/ ggf. Logo ein.
5. Senden Sie den Brief per Mail an die untenstehenden Adressaten. Bitte nehmen Sie Frau Schäfer in Ihrer E-Mail in cc: schaefer@lahndill.ihk.de; Leiterin Grundsatzreferat und Federführung: Energie, Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Nachhaltigkeit & Innovation
Einleitung:
Dear Ms. Roswall,
As a small business owner from Germany, I am writing to you today with an urgent request. The planned implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) as of August 12, 2026, threatens to impose significant additional burdens on us, which could jeopardize my company’s economic viability. There is an urgent need to amend the PPWR.
We are committed to sustainable business practices and recognize the need to reduce packaging waste. Creating a practical and predictable PPWR is essential to achieving and ensuring this goal. Nevertheless, future business operations and regulation must go hand in hand. We believe the PPWR jeopardizes this balance.
Beispiele aus der Praxis:
- Beispiel Bevollmächtigter
Authorised representative for the extended producer responsibilityArticle 44 requires registration in all Member States in which a company operates. In this context, Article 45 requires the appointment of authorized representatives in other countries, as is already required for the distribution of electrical and electronic equipment. Given the significantly lower material value and environmental impact of packaging, this appears disproportionate. The additional burden would be enormous, particularly for us SMEs, and would impede the free movement of goods within the single market.With the One-Stop Shop (OSS) for value-added tax, the EU has demonstrated that cross-border trade can also be regulated centrally, efficiently, and with legal certainty: one registration, one reporting office, one procedure for all 27 Member States. The PPWR takes exactly the opposite approach: Each of the 27 EU countries operates its own national registry, its own licensing system, and its own administrative structure—with different deadlines, different volume definitions, different languages, and different penalty regimes.And starting August 12, 2026, in every country where a company does not have a local branch, there will be an additional requirement to appoint a local authorized representative. This is not a reduction in bureaucracy. It is the creation of bureaucracy multiplied by 27.We therefore propose the following adjustments:1.Introduction of an EU-wide one-stop shop for EPR packaging, similar to the VAT OSS: a single registration, a single reporting point, and automatic forwarding to national systems.
2. Volume thresholds that effectively ease the burden on SMEs: Companies with less than 500 kg of packaging per country per year must be exempted from country-specific registration requirements.
3. Multilingual, EU-wide registration portals where you can at least sign up in English and not just in the local language.
4. Suspension of threats of suspension on trading platforms until a functioning system that is manageable for SMEs is in place.
5. A transition period of at least 12 months following the introduction of a uniform procedure before sanctions take effect. - Kennzeichnungsvorgaben für Erzeuger (Dropshipping)
Obligations of manufacturers (Dropshipping)The requirements for identifying the responsible manufacturer on packaging are particularly problematic. For many retail companies and wholesalers engaged in drop shipping, this obligation could have a significant impact on existing business models. For example, many retailers source packaging or packaged products through supplier networks and sell them to their customers through their own online stores. If the contact information of the actual supplier or manufacturer is clearly displayed on the packaging, there is a risk that customers will use this information directly to establish business relationships while bypassing the wholesaler. This would significantly impair the economic function of the wholesale trade.Under the PPWR, a responsible manufacturer must be identifiable. In many cases, therefore, the actual manufacturer or supplier would have to be named on the packaging. For retail companies whose business model is based on acting as an intermediary between the manufacturer and the end customer, however, this leads to significant competitive disadvantages. The regulation thus risks undermining established distribution structures without providing any additional benefit to consumers or the environment.While the so-called “manufacturer fiction” under Article 21 of the PPWR does, in principle, allow a retailer to identify itself as the manufacturer and assume the corresponding obligations—thereby avoiding the need to display the actual supplier’s contact information on the packaging—in practice, this results in a complete transfer of manufacturer responsibility to the retailer. For small and medium-sized enterprises in particular, this represents an additional legal and administrative burden that is often disproportionate to the intended purpose.We therefore propose the following adjustments:1. Clarification of labeling requirements: It should be expressly permitted to identify the economic operator responsible for compliance with the PPWR without being required to disclose the contact details of the actual manufacturer or upstream supplier.2. Creation of a “Responsible Economic Operator” solution: Similar to other EU legal acts, it should be sufficient to designate a responsible economic operator who is accessible to authorities and fulfills the obligations under the PPWR.3. Protection of legitimate business interests: The PPWR should explicitly recognize that retail and wholesale companies can protect their supplier relationships, provided that traceability and market surveillance remain ensured.
- Individuelle Beispiele
Ergänzung durch Ihre individuellen BeispieleBitte fügen Sie hier Ihre individuellen Beispiele auf. Vor welchen Herausforderungen und Problemen stehen Sie. Bitte auf Englisch formulieren. Sie können für die Übersetzung öffentliche Übersetzer nutzen wie beispielsweise Google Translate oder DeepL.
Abschluss
The free internal market is a core promise of the European Union. A regulation that, in practice, can only be complied with by large corporations with their own compliance departments undermines this promise. Small and medium-sized enterprises—the backbone of the European economy—are not protected by this regulation but are instead excluded from cross-border trade.
I urge you to address this issue and advocate for a practical solution.
I urge you to address this issue and advocate for a practical solution.
Best regards
Firmenadresse / Unterschrift / ggf. Logo
Adressaten Ihrer Stellungnahme
- Hauptadressatin: Frau Jessika Roswall, EU-Kommissarin für Umwelt, Wasserresilienz und wettbewerbsfähige Kreislaufwirtschaft Jessika.ROSWALL@ec.europa.eu
- Regionale Adressaten, Hessische Abgeordnete des EU-Parlaments:
- Christine Anderson, AfD (christine.anderson@europarl.europa.eu)
- Dr. Udo Bullmann, SPD (udo.bullmann@europarl.europa.eu)
- Engin Eroglu, Freie Wähler (engin.eroglu@europarl.europa.eu)
- Michael Gahler, CDU (michael.gahler@europarl.europa.eu)
- Martin Häusling, B90/ Die Grünen (martin.haeusling@europarl.europa.eu)
- Dr. Sven Simon, CDU (sven.simon@europarl.europa.eu)
- Ihre Ansprechpartnerinnen in der IHK Lahn Dill: Lisa Schäfer, schaefer@lahndil.ihk.de und Kristin Bartsch, bartsch@lahndill.ihk.de
Bitte versenden Sie die Schreiben möglichst bis zum 11. September (spätestens bis zum 18. September). Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung! Wir hoffen auf eine zahlreiche Beteiligung.