by Egara adm | Jun 9, 2011 | News, spring meeting
The 2011 EGARA springmeeting was hosted by DAG in the Tivoli Hotel in Copenhagen on May 20th. In the morning the conference was held with 3 speakers: Lis Vedel from the Ministry of Environment, Torvald Isager from HJH and Soren Sonniksen. Lis Vedel explained the...
by Egara adm | Mar 3, 2011 | News
POP’s Persistent Organic Pollutants. The European Commissions new scope. It’s been mentioned before, but now we begin to see what seems to be involved for our business. In the Automotive world, POP’s are found in upholstery and PUR foam as flame retarders. Not in all...
by Egara adm | Nov 20, 2010 | News
In 2010 some tax rules have changed. This means VAT needs to be charged over service provided by EGARA. Membership is regarded a service, so contribution is income for EGARA and thus VAT must be paid. If members have a VAT registration, no VAT needs to be paid. EGARA...
by Egara adm | Nov 20, 2010 | News
This year Joszef Dobo resigned as chairman from the Hungarian cardismantlers association GOE. His is succeeded by Mr. Gyula Kovács. Joszef was a known face at international meetings, representing his organisation. He stays in business with his company Wreck-car Ltd....
by Egara adm | Nov 17, 2010 | News
DG Environment (Mrs. Artemis Hatzi-Hull), together with Eurostat (E-stat, the statistical organisation from the EC) had called for the working group to meet again to discuss the method to obtain the material composition of ELV’s with shredder campaigns. In the end of...
by Egara adm | Oct 19, 2010 | Fall meeting, News
This years Fall meeting will be held in Sassenheim. Since STIBA (where EGARA’s office is located) moved to Sassenheim, Schiphol (Amsterdam) is very near. Flying to Brussels is more and more expensive, so EGARA hopes to keep the expenses for her members a bit lower...
by Egara adm | Oct 19, 2010 | News
ACEA and EGARA agree that enforcement is considered a point of priority. Both EGARA and ACEA benefit from a legal infrastructure with liscensed dismantlers sites (Authorized Treatment Facilities or ATF’s) to prevent unfair competition, to assure save depollution, to...
by Egara adm | Aug 17, 2010 | News, spring meeting
SBR decided to host the 2010 springmeeting for EGARA. EGARA wishes to thank the Swedish collegues and friends for taking care and taking such good care of the whole programme. 3 Speakers had very interesting items about safety features and future developments,...
by Egara adm | Aug 17, 2010 | News
Summary/conclusion The reporting methodologies for recycling and reuse are mentioned in the Directive, the commission decision (2005/293/E) and in de guideline. The Directive is always leading. The guidance should lead to better and better comparable figures. It´s not...
by Egara adm | Mar 10, 2010 | News
In this workinggroup the EC has asked several participants, like memberstates, reporting organisations, ministries, carproducers (ACEA) and EGARA to try to find a methodology that is agreed by all and that will provide figures about the member states’recycling quota....
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