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Date: 02 Jun 2025
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EU Commission confirms: Retreaded tires are “taxonomy-compliant”

As already reported several times, the Taxonomy Regulation has been a problem for many users and suppliers of retreaded tires. In the “Basic Taxonomy Regulation” VO(EU) 2020/852, the various economic activities are assessed in terms of their sustainability.For the areas of road freight and passenger transport, the delegated regulations (EU) 2021/2129 and 2023/2485 apply with regard to the use of “appropriate tires” t
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Date: 28 May 2025
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BIPAVER General Assembly 2025 – Bologna

On May 22, 2025, BIPAVER held its annual General Assembly during the Autopromotec in Bologna, Italy. The event brought together members from across Europe to discuss key developments in the retreading sector and to shape the strategic direction of the association for the coming years. President Guido Gambassi opened the meeting, followed by an overview of BIPAVER’s financial performance and planning. The 2026 budget
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Date: 21 Aug 2024
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Labelling Proposal Review Meeting EC

On July 26th BIPAVER finally had been invited to a “Review Meeting” with the EC/DG Trade, IDIADA (who have been contracted by the EC to do the Supporting Study on potential labelling of C3 retreaded tyres), ETRMA, ETRTO to discuss the findings of this study. The Meeting took place physically in Brussels at the EC offices and in parallel by web-access, giving more individual BIPAVER members the possibility to particip
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Date: 17 Jun 2024
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BIPAVER General Assembly 2024 – New Board was elected

On the occasion of THE TIRE COLOGNE 2024, the representatives of the European retreading industry met in Cologne for this year’s BIPAVER General Assembly on June 5, 2024. EU Commissioner Paolo Tosoratti had announced himself as a spontaneous guest the day before, who answered the participants’ questions on the topic of “Label for retreaded tires”. The project has been dragging on for years and
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Date: 20 Nov 2023
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BIPAVER General Assembly 2023

After 3 years meeting only online, the General Assembly of the European retreading association BIPAVER could finally took place as a presence meeting in Bologna November 17th . BIPAVER members used the new event FUTURMOTIVE International Exhibition for the future of mobility, for energy and ecology transition and innovation in Automotive industry in Bologna to meet each other. The day before the BIPAVER General Assem
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Date: 20 Nov 2023
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Start of the expiry review into AD-/AS-Duties

The EU-Commission started the expiry review into anti-dumping measures on imports of bus and lorry tyres from China on October 20th, 2023 and the review into anti-subsidy measures on November 10th, 2023. You can find this official document here: Anti-Dumping: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/C/2023/379/oj Anti-Subsidy: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/C/2023/711/oj
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Date: 05 Apr 2023
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Final AD-/AS- Duties for TBR-Imports from China published

The EU-Commission hat to recalculate the duties due to a decision of the European High Court. The final results of this recalculation have today been published, here the information at a glance: As from tomorrow, the imports in the EU will be subjected to the duties and no longer be registered. The customs authorities will require importers to pay the duties on the imports registered since July 2022. As the duties we
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Date: 28 Feb 2023
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Labelling for retreaded C3 tyres

Tyre and Retread Industry support the intention of European Commission to establish a labelling for Commercial Vehicles retreaded truck and bus tyres (C3), assuming that suitable measurement methods can be defined, as requested in EU regulation 2020/740. BIPAVER, ETRMA and ETRTO have studied sustainable schemes allowing to label retreaded C3 tyres and submitted the attached proposal to the European Commission in Octo
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Date: 01 Jul 2022
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BIPAVER General Assembly 2022

For the third time in a row, the General Assembly of the European retreading association BIPAVER had to take place as an online meeting. The agenda of the General Assembly included updates on the GRBP meetings in Geneva and progress on the labeling of retreaded tires, as well as a discussion of the current ruling by the European Court of Justice on the anti-dumping duties on Chinese commercial vehicle tires that have
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Date: 01 Jul 2022
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Regular change of presidency

For the third time in a row, the General Assembly of the European retreading association BIPAVER had to take place as an online meeting. Even if the technical possibilities allow a smooth process, it was very sad that the statutory change of the president had to take place online. At the meeting on June 28, 2022, the term of Jukka Lankolainen (Finland), who had already been elected online in 2020, came to an end. The
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