MGYOSZ: the environmental product fee does not point towards simplification

The Federation of Employers and Industrialists (MGYOSZ) has recently received several indications that the environmental product fee – introduced in 2011- puts excessive administrative burden on domestic companies in its present form. The MGYOSZ draws attention that on the basis of the experiences of the past months, the environmental product fee in its current form has an opposite effect to the formerly welcomed plans to reduce bureaucracy.

According to the Federation of Employers and Industrialists (MGYOSZ), in 2011, the amendment related to the environmental product fee put the scope on “packagings”, instead of the European standard “packages” and the subjective effect was extended on the scope of companies producing packagings. As the result of the originally bureaucracy reducing regulation, such products are under the subjective effect of the regulation, which were previously not affected and no packaging waste derives from them.