The European Pallet Association (EPAL) and the UIC work-group responsible for load carriers within the International Union of Railways (UIC) was unable to reach an agreement on the creation of a unified European exchange pool for europallets by the end of July. As such, no reconciliation of the opposing views has been achieved since the crisis talks held between the two parties on 9 July.
At a meeting in Vienna on 17 June, nine out of eleven UIC-AG members spoke out against an exchangeability of europallets bearing with the EPAL logo on all four corner blocks in the UIC’s future exchange pool. UIC-AG considers a pallet bearing the EPAL logo on all four corner blocks to be a purely private pallet, along the same lines as the world pallet produced and sold by German Falkenhahn for several years now.