Traduction de «emballage vert » (Français → Anglais) :

We also believe that a prevention objective is not necessary, because, for environmental and economic reasons, such as the payment of the ‘Green point’, which exists in certain countries such as my own, industry is already trying to reduce as far as possible the amount of material used in the manufacture of packaging.

1. Considers the Commission proposal to be unsatisfactory albeit interesting; believes that a more exhaustive and more cohesive policy proposal would be required which takes due account in a more apparent manner of each link in the production chain, such as raw materials, energy consumption, packaging and transport; considers, however, that, with a view to establishing more precise and better coordinated bases from which to launch the proposal, a more exhaustive study should have been carried out into the achievements and failures of existing IPP policies (European eco-label, EMAS, New Approach legislation such as the directive on pack ...[+++]aging, etc.); calls for the Commission to draw up more precise documents as a basis for Parliament's work, since this would save all the parties concerned a great deal of unnecessary work;

Whilst paying for the service provided by DSD's competitors, these customers would have to either pay an additional fee to DSD (the only provider, at present, of a comprehensive countrywide system), or they would have to organise separate packaging, distribution and merchandising lines (packaging with and without the Green Dot).

The Commission has objected to a provision according to which DSD customers have to pay fees corresponding to the volume of packaging bearing the Green Dot trademark rather than fees corresponding to the volume of packaging for which DSD is actually providing a take-back and recycling service.

Under the Commission's decision, DSD may therefore no longer charge a fee in Germany for that part of the sales packaging bearing the "Green Dot" for which it can be shown that the take-back and recovery obligation, as set out in the German packaging ordinance, has been properly fulfilled by another party, be that a competing system or a self-management solution.

Sir Leon Brittan, Vice-President of the Commission responsible for competition policy, has announced the completion of the assessment of two recent mergers in the European packaging industry : CARNAUD-METAL BOX and PECHINEY-AMERICAN CAN. Both mergers were given the go-ahead, since they were not found to give rise to an abuse of dominant position.