

The development and consistent realisation of the export initiative is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental task and is carried out jointly with other ministries, their technical agencies or associated institutes and with industrial associations. The development of a network of actors is of particular importance during the initial phase. The initiative will bundle and harmonise support instruments and schemes available in Germany and offered by authorities and industry associations supporting export. By doing so, existing contacts, networks, export instruments, support instruments etc. and the knowledge of the participating actors/institutions will be incorporated into the initiative.
During an initial phase (June to October 2007) a strategy paper on the development and the implementation of the initiative was drawn up and discussed by the actors/institutions involved at the conference Export Initiative Recycling and Efficiency Technologies (RETech) 2007.
On 11 September 2007 the Federal Environment Ministry hosted this conference in Bonn. This successful launch event in which around 150 experts participated gave important impetus. The initiative aims at providing long-term support for German enterprises regarding the export of recycling and efficiency technologies.
Key:
| AA | Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/Startseite.html |
| BDE | Bundesverband der Deutschen Entsorgungswirtschaft e.V www.bde-berlin.de |
| BMBF | Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung http://www.bmbf.de/en/index.php |
| BMU | Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety http://www.bmu.de/english/aktuell/4152.php |
| BMWi | Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology http://www.bmwi.de/English/Navigation/root.html |
| BMZ | Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development http://www.bmz.de/en/index.html |
| bvse | Bundesverband Sekundärrohstoffe und Entsorgung e.V. www.bvse.de |
| DIHK | German Chambers of Industry and Commerce http://www.dihk.de/english/ |
| R&D Institutes | Research and Development |
| GTAI | Germany Trade and Invest www.gtai.com |
| GTZ | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH, http://www.gtz.de/en/index.htm |
| InWEnt | Capacity Building International (Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH) http://www.inwent.org/index.php.en |
| KfW | KfW Bankengruppe http://www.kfw.de/EN_Home/index.jsp |
| NGOs | Non-governmental organisations |
| UBA | Federal Environment Agency http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/index-e.htm |
| VKS | Association of municipal waste management and city cleaning in the Association of Local Utilities (VKU) www.vksimvku.de |
| VDMA | German Engineering Federation http://www.vdma.org |
