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DIE PAPIERINDUSTRIE e.V.

DIE PAPIERINDUSTRIE

DIE PAPIERINDUSTRIE e.V.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament) and Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. and

14 Jan 2026 · Austausch

Meeting with Gabriela Tschirkova (Cabinet of Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis)

12 Nov 2025 · Competitiveness and decarbonisation

Response to Roadmap towards Nature Credits

30 Sept 2025

The German association DIE PAPIERINDUSTRIE e. V. represents the interests of the German pulp and paper industry. In terms of turnover, it covers more than 94% of the sector, speaking on behalf of the largest national pulp and paper industry in Europe and the fifth largest worldwide. In 2023, companies in the industry produced more than 18.6 million tonnes of paper, board and cardboard at 142 production sites, generating a turnover of 15.5 billion with around 46,000 employees. Attached you will find the position paper of our European association Cepi on the Roadmap of Nature Credits, which we as the leading association German pulp and paper industry have co-drafted. Our main feedback is: 1) Unintended effects of large-scale uptake of nature credits should be avoided. The uptake of nature credits projects in forests should not shrink the area available for wood supply and sustainable forest management for production, resulting in diminished raw materials provision for the forest-based bioeconomy, endangering the European self-sufficiency and competitiveness. As this initiative comes after many other newly introduced legislations and policies that have an impact on wood supply, it is important to assess and prevent the possible unintended effects on the forest-based industries. 2.) Nature credits should not be used to compensate environmental harm and should remain voluntary. 3.) Nature credits should be result-based and not prescriptive on management approaches. 4.) Nature credits should take into due account local variability. 5) The benefit of nature credits should be carefully assessed, also considering the cost of biodiversity monitoring.
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Meeting with Angelika Niebler (Member of the European Parliament)

28 May 2025 · EU Simplification Proposals

Meeting with Angelika Niebler (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Apr 2025 · European energy policy

Meeting with Gabriele Bischoff (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Bayer AG and

24 Jan 2025 · Austausch mit dem Wirtschaftsforum der SPD e.V. zur Revision Eurobetriebsräte

Meeting with Markus Ferber (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Dec 2024 · Taxonomy

Meeting with Jens Gieseke (Member of the European Parliament) and ExxonMobil Petroleum Chemical and Wirtschaftsverband Fuels und Energie e. V.

17 Apr 2024 · Austausch zu Umweltpolitik

Response to Restrictions on bisphenol A (BPA) and other bisphenols in food contact materials

6 Mar 2024

The German paper-producing and processing industry as well as manufacturers of paper for recycling-based packaging would like to take this opportunity to offer a feedback on the draft Regulation on the use of BPA and other bisphenols and their derivatives with harmonised classification for specific hazardous properties in certain materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. The paper-producing and processing industry as well as manufacturers of paper for recycling-based packaging generally welcome the European Commission's proposal to restrict Bisphenol A (BPA) and other bisphenols in food contact materials (FCMs). Since the ban on the use of BPA in thermal papers at the beginning of 2020, German paper manufacturers have generally refrained from using BPA. Measurements of bisphenols are already part of the monitoring program to ensure compliance with the recommendations XXXVI for "papers, cardboards, and cardboard for food contact." of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment. Due to the extensive bans on use in the EU, the already low bisphenol contamination in paper for recycling cycles is largely minimized. To achieve further reduction of bisphenols in line with consumer protection and the circular economy, practical and feasible solutions are needed. Unfortunately, the current draft of the EU regulation dated February 7, 2024, in its current form, misses the intended target. Consequently, it would mean that paper for recycling and paper for recycling-based packaging will hardly be able to be used as food contact materials in the future. Traceability of recycled paper batches along the supply chain in case of an analyzed elevated BPA value is practically impossible. There is a risk that the safety of using paper for recycling and paper for recycling-based packaging materials as food contact materials will be questioned as a whole. More reliable packaging materials in light of the BPA discussion would push these products out of the market, resulting in a failure to achieve the circular economy goal. With a recycling rate of over 90%, German paper manufacturers, in particular, would be disproportionately burdened and pushed out of the market by the proposed regulation. Therefore, we urgently request that you do not approve the draft in its current form. We have a attached a more detailed position paper. We thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback. We are looking forward to next steps and remain available for any further questions and exchanges at your convenience.
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Response to Review of the requirements for packaging and feasibility of measures to prevent packaging waste

24 Apr 2023

Der Verband DIE PAPIERINDUSTRIE e. V. und seine Mitglieder unterstützen ausdrücklich das Bestreben der EU-Kommission, mit einer Verordnung über Verpackungen und Verpackungsabfälle zu einer klimaneutralen Kreislaufwirtschaft beizutragen. Zugleich besteht an einigen Stellen elementarer Nachbesserungsbedarf. Mit den in dieser Stellungnahme genannten Anmerkungen und Änderungsvorschläge möchten wir einen konstruktiven Beitrag bei der Weiterentwicklung der PPWR leisten. Insbesondere im Bereich der Mehrwegquoten halten wir eine Überarbeitung für notwendig und sachlich begründet. Aus unserer Sicht führt die geplante einseitige Begünstigung von Mehrweglösungen nicht zum ökologisch besten Ergebnis. Darüber hinaus gefährden die vorgeschlagenen Mehrwegquoten das bestehende, funktionierende und sich stetig optimierende Kreislaufwirtschaftssystem entlang der Wertschöpfungskette von Papier, Pappe und Karton. DIE PAPIERINDUSTRIE e. V. vertritt die Interessen der deutschen Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie und ist Dialogpartner für Politik, Sozialpartner, Medien und Öffentlichkeit. 104 Unternehmen haben sich in ihm, darunter internationale Großunternehmen sowie kleine, mittelständische und Familienunternehmen sowie neun Landesverbände organisiert. Entstanden ist der Verband durch den Zusammenschluss zwischen dem Verband Deutscher Papierfabriken (VDP) und der Vereinigung der Arbeitgeberverbände der Deutschen Papierindustrie (VAP). Mit Hauptsitz in Berlin und Dependancen in Bonn und Gernsbach repräsentiert er nach Umsatz über 94 Prozent der Branche und spricht für die größte nationale Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie Europas und die viertgrößte weltweit. Die Unternehmen der Branche produzierten 2022 an 144 Standorten mehr als 21,6 Mio. Tonnen Papier, Pappe und Karton und erwirtschafteten mit rund 46.000 Beschäftigten einen Umsatz von 21,2
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Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and EuroCommerce and

28 Mar 2023 · Packaging Waste

Response to Climate change mitigation and adaptation taxonomy

18 Dec 2020

Siehe Anhang / See attachement
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Response to EU Forest Strategy

4 Dec 2020

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Response to Amendment to the LCR Delegated Regulation

24 Nov 2020

We support the proposal to tackle the double burden imposed by the LCR and the liquidity buffer stipulated in art. 16 CB-Directive. However, we suggest that the net liquidity outflow from covered bond liabilities and cover pool assets should be adjusted to the extent of cover pool HQLA BEFORE the inclusion into the LCR is conducted. As a result, only the net liquidity outflow not covered by cover pool HQLA will add to the LCR whereas a fully covered net liquidity outflow does not change the LCR at all. This approach differs because otherwise the inclusion of (i) the net liquidity outflow in the denominator and (ii) unencumbered cover pool HQLA in the numerator will lead to a decrease of the LCR. This is true even if the net liquidity outflow is fully covered by HQLA in the cover pool.
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