Packaging Ordinance

Since 1 January 2009, the 5th amendment to the German Packaging Ordinance (VerpackV) has made it mandatory for all initial distributors (i.e. including manufacturers who have their products produced abroad) to participate in one or more dual systems for sales packaging filled with goods that typically accumulate with private end consumers. Failure to do so may result in severe fines. The regulation also prohibits the marketing of goods with unlicensed sales packaging. We have therefore concluded a manufacturer agreement with the company BellandVision GmbH to fulfil the take-back and recycling obligations.

This does not affect traditional B2B transactions in which our business partners reuse our packaging, sell it as waste paper or recycle it in some other way. If the packaging is not disposed of in the normal waste cycle (waste collection), nothing will change, provided that this is confirmed to us by a binding self-declaration.

Commercial end users (hotels, restaurants, canteens and hospitals) generally dispose of the transport packaging at their own facilities. We reserve the right to provide proof of this in individual cases at the request of the authorities.

Since 1 January 2009, the labelling of packaging with the "Green Dot" - or a corresponding recycling symbol - is no longer mandatory. We therefore refrain from labelling packaging accordingly. We will of course retain the standard international paper recycling label.

Our licensing is fulfilled by the company BellandVision GmbH and our licence number is 14149.

If you dispose of the waste yourself, please complete and sign the following declaration (link here) and return it to us.

Packaging Act from 01.01.2019 (VerpackG)

With the Packaging Act passed on 12 July 2017, the topic of packaging waste, placing packaging on the market, participation in a dual system and recycling is to be made more transparent overall. The Packaging Act still obliges manufacturers to licence the packaging they place on the market and to participate in a dual system. In order to reduce the high number of free riders who have so far failed to fulfil this legal obligation, thereby saving costs and at the same time creating a considerable imbalance between the amount of packaging licensed and the amount actually put into circulation, every manufacturer is obliged to register in the public packaging register (LUCID). Failure to register, which in turn is linked to participation in a dual system, has resulted in fines of up to €200,000 and an automatic ban on the sale of packaging since 1 January 2019.

Holst Porzellan is registered under the number DE1045402765547.