In the 90th of XX century the staff of our magazine worked on the most authoritative in Europe research and practice conferences on problems of the packaging, annually spent by German Packaging Institute and the Economic society of transport technics and packaging in a Dresden (Germany). In the end of last December Anatoly KOZAK, our special correspondent, vice-president of the European Packaging Institute across Ukraine, took part in work of 18-th Research and practice conference in Dresden and shared the impressions with readers of our magazine about results of this conference.