Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation is now on the platform. Its 89 measures have been read one provision at a time. The act names 10 sectors in its own text — most often Retail and distribution, on 46 measures — and reaches 3 more through supply chains, dependencies on other acts, or procurement. This act is adopted. It is law, not a proposal.
Sectors
Sectors the act names in its own text, and — where the reach can be stated — the sectors its measures arrive at through a chain, with the channel each one travels.
Measures
All 89 measures of this act are on the platform. These are the ones it names retail and distribution on.
Place packaging on the market only if it complies with this Regulation.
placing packaging on the market
Place packaging on the market only if it complies with this Regulation.
Packaging shall only be placed on the market if it complies with this Regulation.
View source →Packaging that meets Arts. 5 to 12 may be placed on the market anywhere in the Union: no Member State may block it, and no additional national sustainability or information requirement may be enforced against it. One compliance route replaces 27.
packaging compliant with Arts. 5 to 12
Packaging that meets Arts. 5 to 12 may be placed on the market anywhere in the Union: no Member State may block it, and no additional national sustainability or information requirement may be enforced against it. One compliance route replaces 27.
Member States shall not prohibit, restrict or impede the placing on the market of packaging that complies with the sustainability, labelling and information requirements laid down in or pursuant to Articles 5 to 12.
View source →Pay EPR financial contributions modulated by the packaging's recyclability performance grade.
EPR contributions falling due on packaging with a recyclability grade
Pay EPR financial contributions modulated by the packaging's recyclability performance grade.
the financial contributions paid by producers in order to comply with their extended producer responsibility obligations as laid down in Article 45 shall be modulated in accordance with the recyclability performance grades
View source →Design packaging so weight and volume are reduced to the minimum necessary for functionality, and document the assessment against the Annex IV performance criteria.
packaging placed on the market
Design packaging so weight and volume are reduced to the minimum necessary for functionality, and document the assessment against the Annex IV performance criteria.
the manufacturer or importer shall ensure that the packaging placed on the market is designed so that its weight and volume is reduced to the minimum necessary to ensure its functionality
View source →Do not place on the market packaging failing the Annex IV performance criteria, or packaging whose features exist only to increase perceived product volume -- double walls, false bottoms, unnecessary layers.
packaging design with volume-inflating features
Do not place on the market packaging failing the Annex IV performance criteria, or packaging whose features exist only to increase perceived product volume -- double walls, false bottoms, unnecessary layers.
packaging with characteristics that aim only to increase the perceived volume of the product, including double walls, false bottoms and unnecessary layers, is not placed on the market
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