Objectives:

• Professional involvement in the (further) development and continuous improvement of a sustainable circular economy in the area of product stewardship
   
• Achieving external impact with work results, in particular addressee-specific expert recommendations in the context of regulatory decision-making.

Main areas of work:

• Implementation of product stewardship
• Analyzing, designing and closing product cycles
• Calculation and fulfillment of quotas
• Consideration of REACH, RoHS, POP
• Further development and standardization of "state of the art" and implementation standards
• Practical questions on topics such as
  • Collection, sorting and recycling
  • Container systems
  • Logistics
  • New material flows/product groups in the context of product responsibility
  • Identification of new recycling routes
  • Promoting the fulfillment of collection volumes and collection quotas
  • Shipment of old appliances
  • Actual barriers to reuse
• System improvement
• Preparation of impulse and position papers
• Identification of technical and legal requirements for treatment and the formulation of guidelines and technical/legal interpretation notes
• Incorporating technical aspects into innovative legislation and regulation while ensuring equal and fair competitive conditions for all market participants