The digital product passport is intended to bundle environmentally relevant information such as materials or repairability of a product in a digital system. If the capital goods industry is ignored in its conception, bureaucratic chaos could follow, especially for smaller and medium-sized companies, fears VDMA President Karl Haeusgen.
Von Redaktion Table
Das neue Kabinett steht, um Zuständigkeiten wird noch gerungen. Absehbar aber ist: Die Grünen werden die deutsche Politik in der EU prägen – und sich damit einen zentralen Machthebel sichern.
Von Till Hoppe
With a restructuring of climate policy, the new federal government wants to end the rivalry between the environment and economics ministries. This is intended to transform Germany from a brake on climate protection to a driver of it in Europe. The new "super ministry" under Robert Habeck will nevertheless have to reckon with headwind. Especially from the coalition partner FDP.
Von Timo Landenberger
