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Law firm HJ Lueckefett

My consulting work is based on the experiences from very different stations of my professional carrier:

  • 11 years as an official of the state administration Baden-Wuerttemberg.
  • 15 years as a manager of Hewlett-Packard Germany and of the government affairs office in Brussels.
  • 12 years as managing director and shareholder of a compliance-oriented consulting company, now 1cc GmbH, Holzgerlingen, Germany.

Kontakt

For a contact to the law firm:

Phone:    +49 7021 489525

Fax:           +49 7021 507392

Mobile:   +49 160 94827031

E-mail:   lawyer@lueckefett-law.com

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Fields of expertise

The law firm offers its expertise to manufacturers, trading companies and public sector:

  • To know compliance requirements
  • To understand the importance of compliance for the company’s business
  • To develop, implement and improve compliance-related measures and procedures
  • To control compliance.

Waste Management

END-OF-LIFE VEHICLES, WASTE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, BATTERIES AND PACKAGING

Legislators worldwide excavated individual waste streams, such as those in the heading, from the overall government responsibility for waste management and transferred them to manufacturers, importers and resellers. Today they are obliged to take back and recycle this waste. For the purpose of control and for statistical purposes they must register and report volumes put on the market and taken back. Despite the same objectives and procedures, attention has to be paid to divergent stipulations in all countries.

One of the next complex challenges is going to be take-back and recycling of old batteries of eCars.

Chemical Legislation

THE EUROPEAN REGULATIONS REACH AND CLP

REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals)

The European Union wants to capture, assess and monitor all substances and mixtures that are manufactured, imported and put on the European market. The Regulation entered into force in 2006. The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is assuming that the full implementation of the regulation will take the time until 2020. In 2018 the last registration wave for existing (so called phase-in) substances ended. Now new substances must be registered before production, importation and sales can start.

CLP (Classification, Labelling and Packaging)

This regulation transposes the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of the UN for substances and mixtures into EU law. It is closely linked to the REACH regulation.

Other substance related legislation

Despite the clear aim to eliminate the patchwork of chemical legislation, REACH regulation rules a number of exemptions. Important examples are waste, medicine, food and cosmetics.

Product-related Legislation

BAN OF SUBSTANCES, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, ECODESIGN AND PRODUCT SAFETY

  • Product-related legal provisions for the protection of workers, users and of the environment shaped a complex landscape. Basic legislation such as the EU Product Safety Directive (Germany: Product Safety Act 2011) and numerous special legal acts supplement or exclude each other. Recent examples:
      • Manufacturers must comply with the substance prohibitions of the RoHS directive for electrical and electronic products in addition to those of the REACH regulation.
      • The number of candidate substances for which manufacturers have to meet information requirements has grown from initially 14 to now 201 (as of December 2019).
      • The EU is continuously adding new products to the list of those which have to meet specific requirements for better energy efficiency.
      • The same is true for the list of products, such as washing machines, light bulbs and TV sets which must bear an energy label.

Copyright Levies

Collection societies are imposing copyright levies on manufacturers and distributors of IT products and consumer electronics

Many people know GEMA of Germany, the collection society levying organisations and events for playing music. For a number of years, the collecting societies in Europe have begun to extend the scope of copyright levies to the progressive digitization of our daily lives. With this background – step by step – collection societies addressed, among other things, PCs, Printers, Scanners, Smartphones, and Set Top Boxes to earn revenues for the works of musicians, writers and artists. Collecting societies charge royalties for legally permitted analogue or digital private copying as well as for analogous reprography. The enlargement of copyright levies naturally results in many open legal questions and considerable differences in the comparison of Member States.

Telemedicine

The ITC technology has not yet fully arrived in medicine

Digitization does not stop in front of medicine. Under the keyword “telemedicine” the following aspects have been discussed for quite some time without generally accepted results:

  • Electronic communications between health care professionals, including doctors and hospitals;
  • Mobile telemedical applications for the treatment and monitoring of patients without visiting a doctor’s office or a hospital;
  • Software support for diagnosis and therapy;
  • Recently, apps for tablets and smartphones have been added, the importance of which is still largely unknown to health care professionals.

Numerous legal questions have to be answered in the process of digitizing medical everyday life, in particular in the fields of data safety and integrity, data security and protection, contract design, charges, support functions.

Laboratory Technology

Genetically modified microorganisms make great demands

In recent years, the safety requirements for chemical, microbiological, diagnostic and biotechnological laboratories have increased. This development is caused – inter alia – by the development of drugs based on genetically engineered organisms. It adds complexity to the requirements of successful licensing procedures as well as to project and partner management.

Partners

One cannot tie a knot with just one hand - the partners of the law firm

  • ChemLogis GmbH

    It is a consulting and service company primarily for achieving and ensuring compliance. The service portfolio therefore includes regulatory and technical consulting, hazardous substance management, SVHC analysis and support for marketing, start-ups and research projects. Hans-Jochen Lueckefett is a shareholder of the company. https://chemlogis.eu

  • CER GmbH

    CER GmbH is a research and consulting company that specializes in elements of the circular economy that go beyond the return of raw materials to the production cycle. From 2019 to 2022, CER GmbH was involved in a BMBF-funded project entitled “EffizientNutzen – Datenbasierte Geschäftsmodelle für die Kaskadennutzung und verlängerte Produktnutzung von Elektro(nik)produkten”. The work resulted in various publications by Klaus Hieronymi and Hans-Jochen Lückefett on the market conditions for […]

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  • FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR TOXICOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE (ITEM), HANNOVER

    The Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine focuses on preventive medical work, environmental, workplace and consumer-related risk assessments, the development of diagnostic methods and innovative therapy concepts, as well as the testing and registration of chemicals, biocides and plant protection products, preclinical and clinical pharma research, including allergy and asthma research.

  • SHANGHAI SECOND POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY (SSPU)

    SSPU is an engineering university. In addition, SSPU offers economics, business administration, literature and natural sciences synchronized with engineering. In total, the educational offer comprises 31 university (Master’s degree) and 30 vocational training courses. Hans-Jochen Lückefett was a visiting professor there from 2012 to 2019, lecturing on the subject of industrial environmental protection.

  • ITS BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG e.V.

    ITS BW is a competence center. Its activities cover the areas of traffic telematics and traffic information services, health telematics and telemedicine, mobile communication as well as the intelligent home and technology to support everyday life. Hans-Jochen Lückefett submitted final reports for 2 studies in the Stuttgart region for this competence center in 2014: Doc2Hos for the model testing of electronic communication between hospitals and doctors in private practice and […]

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  • 1cc GmbH

    … is a consulting and service company that acts as an “extended workbench” for its customers in the areas of waste management, material and product-related environmental protection and copyright levies. 1cc GmbH offers its consulting and services worldwide. The company is now part of the 4SquareReturn group of companies. Hans-Jochen Lückefett was managing partner of the company until 2013. Home

  • MLT

    MLT Medizin- und Labortechnik is a consulting and service company specializing in laboratory equipment and operation. Its services include risk assessment, project planning and implementation, compliance management and biotechnology seminars and training courses. Hans-Jochen Lückefett has been working with MLT since 2012. Since the foundation of Chemlogis GmbH, it has also been a cooperation partner. Home

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Email: lawyer@lueckefett-law.com
Telephone: +49 7021 489525
Fax: +49 7021 507392
Mobile: +49 160 94827031

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