GERMAN DRINKS PACKAGING SYSTEM GIVEN ALL CLEAR BY EUROPEAN COMMISSION
April 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has dropped legal action against Germany's strict deposit and return scheme for drinks packaging, concluding reforms stopped it being an illegal restriction of trade. Germany now allows bottles and cans to be returned to "every shop selling beverages in packaging of the same material type", not the same brand as before.
THE EUROPEAN Commission has dropped legal action against Germany's strict deposit and return scheme for drinks packaging, concluding reforms stopped it being an illegal restriction of trade. Germany now allows bottles and cans to be returned to "every shop selling beverages in packaging of the same material type", not the same brand as before.
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