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Systempartner

Our system partner

The DPG Deutsche Pfandsystem GmbH provides the organisational and legal framework for the return and deposit clearing of one-way beverage packaging subject to a deposit and supports all partners involved in participating in a highly efficient system and growing together. In order to meet this requirement, many interests have to be taken into account and even more highly specialised companies have to be actively involved. Organisationally, this basic idea is also reflected in the dual leadership of the DPG management, which, like the eight-member advisory board, is made up of equal numbers of trade and industry.

This is important for you and for us.

  • A functioning system is based on experience, professionalism and perfect organisational structures. The DPG has been able to build up and continuously optimise all of this since 2005. The decisive factor for mutual success, however, is above all a close and fruitful cooperation between all actors and system partners, who use the network in a variety of ways and continually supplement and optimise it for their respective purposes.
  • Support our cooperation with your recommendation, experiences and optimisation suggestions. Together we can improve one day at a time.

Our system partners.

Without unique labelling of single-use beverage packaging requiring a deposit, its identification during collection, and its allocation in the case of deposit settlement, including without the creation of clear deposit statements within deposit clearing, it would not be possible to maintain the cycle of reusable materials affected by deposit as well as ensuring the financial compensation between the actors in the German single-use deposit system. Find out below about the diverse tasks of the system partners cooperating in the DPG System.
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Your contact for system partners

Kontakt
Robert Zinecker

Telefon: +49 (30) 800 974 320 | Fax: +49 (30) 800 974 121
robert.zinecker(at)dpg-pfandsystem.de

Etikettenhersteller und Farbverwender

Label manufacturers and Users of DPG Ink

The labelling of one-way beverage packaging is of central importance in the DPG one-way deposit system. The requirements and security specifications that we place on companies that want to produce DPG labels or packaging are correspondingly high. We regulate our cooperation according to a location-related certification process via a binding approval agreement which, among other things, stipulates that only certified Users of DPG Ink can purchase the DPG Ink required for the production of DPG labels and packaging. The test device required to check the print quality is also only available to approved manufacturers.

Pfandetiketten-Druck
Automatenhersteller

Reverse Vending Machine manufacturers

In the DPG one-way deposit system, deposit clearing is based on electronic data records that include can be generated in DPG Reverse Vending Machines by generating a signed and clearly identifiable data record for each correctly labeled one-way beverage packaging that is collected. Since each of these automatically generated data sets has a value of 25 cents, the DPG places high demands on the manufacturers of Reverse Vending Machines which are set out in a separate Accreditation Agreement. Here too, a two-stage certification process, in which, among other things, the mechanics and IT of different types of machine are checked and the companies undertake to generate data records exclusively on the basis of the contractual specifications.

Automatenhersteller
Zählzentren

Sorting Plants

Collectors who do not use RVM (Reverse Vending Machines) to accept empty one-way beverage packaging in their shops can also instruct the DPG-certified Sorting Plants to record the empty one-way beverage containers that have been collected. Here DPG packaging is accepted, read out and cancelled by registered collection points using Industrial Sorting Machines and/or Sorting Benches, so that only the secured data sets have to be integrated into the DPG single-use deposit system as the basis for deposit clearing. Companies that want to operate a DPG Sorting Plant also have to undergo a two-stage certification process and conclude a separate Accreditation Agreement with the DPG in order to ensure that correctly labelled one-way beverage packaging is returned and that DPG records are handled properly.

Zählzentren
Clearing-Dienstleister

Clearing Service Provider

The requirements placed on First Distributors as well as Collectors and Refund Claimants as part of the DPG deposit clearing process require professional process know-how and special software and hardware-technical capacities for processing the sometimes very extensive amounts of data. Beverage manufacturers and importers as well as retailers and other end distributors are therefore free within the DPG System to commission experienced service providers with the various tasks of deposit clearing. Depending on the role of the client, a distinction must be made between Deposit Account Service Providers and Refund Claimant Service Providers. In order to be active in one of these functions and to be approved as a contractor within the DPG System, Clearing Service Providers must first conclude an Accreditation Agreement with the DPG.

Clearing-Dienstleister

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Certification of ink users

Since the handling of the DPG ink is safety-relevant for the entire system, it must be ensured that beverage can manufacturers and label printers handle the DPG Ink properly. This is checked during certification. To perform certification, the DPG works with independent certification companies.

Two-stage certification process

Certification consists of an initial certification (safety certification) and an annual recertification (process certification). As part of the security certification, it is necessary to prove that the selected location meets the necessary infrastructural requirements in accordance with the certification guidelines. If this can be guaranteed, DPG ink can be obtained from an approved manufacturer for the first time.
In order to maintain the certification, a process audit for corporate ink management with a certificate must be completed no later than 6 months after the security check has been passed. This must be confirmed via an annual repeat certification.

Certification of machine manufacturers

DPG Reverse Vending Machines generate an electronic data record for each single-use beverage packaging subject to a deposit as the basis for deposit clearing in the DPG one-way deposit system. The certification of the manufacturing companies takes place in two stages and is carried out by approved certification agencies.

Two-stage certification process

The certification process consists of an upstream DPG type approval, which is completed within 6 months with an initial certification audit. After the initial or repeat certification has been passed, a certificate is issued that is valid for a maximum of 12 months.

Certification of Sorting Plants

A Sorting Plant is approved by the DPG after the preliminary examination has been carried out by a certification body approved by the DPG (Link zu Säule 4_Ebene 3_Unterseite pdf_“Overview of certified Sorting Plants”). The preliminary examination consists of a document review and an on-site assessment by the authorised expert(s). On the basis of a positive test result, a level 1 certificate is issued as a prerequisite for obtaining DPG approval. In addition to checking the mechanical components of Sorting Plants, IT checks are also part of the certification. The initial certification audit must be completed with a certificate being issued no later than 6 months after the preliminary test has been passed. After the initial or repeat certification has been passed, a certificate is issued that is valid for a maximum of 12 months.

Tasks of the Deposit Account Service Provider

Deposit Account Service Providers can be commissioned by First Distributors to carry out tasks in the clearing process and act as their vicarious agents, e.g.

  • when receiving and checking Deposit Invoices and Notices of Claims,
  • in the event of a complaint about missing or incorrect Deposit Invoices or Notices of Claims,
  • or with the release for payment of justified deposit claims.

Nevertheless, the commissioning First Distributors remain responsible for the correct implementation of the deposit clearing and are fully liable.

Tasks of the claimant service provider

Refund Claimant Service Providers can be commissioned by retailers and other end distributors to carry out tasks in the clearing process and act as their vicarious agents, e.g.

  • in the preparation of electronic counting data from Reverse Vending Machines,
  • when comparing the electronic counting data with the DPG System Database,
  • when preparing and sending Deposit Invoices and Notices of Claims ,
  • or when monitoring incoming payments

Nevertheless, the commissioning Collectors / Refund Claimants remain responsible for the correct implementation of the deposit clearing and are fully liable.