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With any luck their regulations are similar to the USPS here. USPS restricts lithium batteries over a certain size. When I checked into it, this did not prevent shipment of coin cells since they were well below the limit. USPS does say that the batteries must be packaged appropriately or something to that effect.
Our luck has run out... per the USPS link I provided:
"Specific quantities of lithium batteries are now allowed to be mailed when installed in the equipment they are intended to operate. However, some countries have decided to prohibit the acceptance of mail shipments containing any lithium metal or lithium-ion batteries."
Germany is now the first (of the "some countries") that prohibits lithium batteries of all types within the mail stream. That's the way I read the news.