| Association |
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| Domicile |
- Postfach 1020
D-58010 Hagen
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| Secretary´s
office |
- Hermelinweg 14
D-48157 Münster
Tel: +49 251 284 39 70 and 71
Fax: +49 251 284 39 72
eMail: info@epal-pallets.org
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| Scope |
- European association of parties interested
in quality approved EUR-pallets which is including the producers,
dealers, repairers, users, railways, transporters, etc.
The service is not profit orientated.
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| Purpose |
- Quality assurance of re-usable EUR-pallets
throughout the world on uniform criteria including exchange.
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| Tasks |
- Implementation of UIC norms 435-2/ 435-4
regarding the EUR-pallet.
- Promotion of exchangeability for ecological
and economical reasons.
- Promotion of uniform exchange criteria on
UIC basis.
- Creation of working groups for these tasks.
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| Activities
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- Registration of the union trademark
as IR-mark with the International Bureau of Intellectual Property
OMPI, Geneva, under No 617 158 as well as under No 472 415 as
community mark with the Office for European marks in Alicante
thereby guaranteeing its international protection.
- Elaboration of a Technical Rule Book that
governs the licenzing terms for production, trade and repairs of
quality approved product and the control parameters.
- Awarding of symbols and attribution of the
control marks
, i.e. control clamp, control seal, authentic repair nail.
- Appointment of control companies for
theobservance of norms and regulations.
- Pursuit of infringements against the
"Technical Rule Book", abuse or imitations of symbols and
trademarks by legal or outside of the law means.
- Establishment of a list of all EPAL
registered companies.
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| Objectives |
- To put at the disposal of the European
market an exchangeable EUR pool pallet of sufficient quality with
uniform exchange criteria.
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| Strategy
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- To comply with their ambitious logistical
requirements users buy and use only quality approved EUR-pallets
marked with the
symbol.
- To promote increased utilization of
exchangeable material to allow for environmental protection.
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| Operation |
- Since 1995 in Germany, France, Switzerland,
Belgium, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom,
Italy, Poland, Portugal
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