The German Packaging Act (VerpackG) transposes the European Packaging Directive 94/62/EC into German law. It aims to protect the environment and ensure fair competition, helping to conserve natural resources.
Global supply chains are an expression of international economic interdependence and transnational organization of goods and services. One of the aims of the EU Supply Chain Act is to improve the protection of human rights in a global economy.
A legal register is a good way to record and manage the legal requirements of an organization in a structured manner and to communicate them to employees.
The change in sustainability reporting is in the starting blocks. From 2024, non-capital market-oriented companies will also have to report on social and environmental aspects.
Many business leaders see rising energy prices as a major threat to their organizations. Current developments are visibly exacerbating this risk. A systematic energy management system according to DIN EN ISO 50001 as well as energy audits according to DIN EN 16247 can effectively help to significantly reduce energy costs.
Around 25,000 people recently met at the UN climate conference “COP26” in Glasgow, Scotland. It is not clear whether the resolutions are sufficient to achieve the important 1.5 degree target for limiting global warming.
Our legal register team has important information for all manufacturing companies that are subject to emissions trading: In order to eliminate competitive disadvantages in the context of national fuel emissions trading, the federal cabinet passed the BEHG Carbon Leakage Ordinance (BECV) on March 31, 2021.
Today the time has finally come: the work in the Port of Beirut is finished. Since the beginning of November, HÖPPNER has been taking care of the hazardous materials that have been stored in the port for decades on behalf of the company CombiLift from Bremen.
We can all still well remember the terrible disaster on August 4th last year in the port of Beirut, when 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded and entire neighborhoods were reduced to rubble.
On January 1st, 2021, the new funding guideline “Energy consulting for non-residential buildings, plants and systems (EBN)” will come into force.
