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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 and Packaging Waste RegulationArt. 10(1) and (4)Manufacturers and importers of packagingBusinesses
New — no predecessor
Trigger
packaging placed on the market
Obligation
Design packaging so weight and volume are reduced to the minimum necessary for functionality, and document the assessment against the Annex IV performance criteria.
Verbatim
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 →Meet minimum recycled content in every plastic part of packaging, averaged per manufacturing plant per year: 30% for contact-sensitive PET, 10% for other contact-sensitive plastics, 30% for single-use plastic beverage bottles, 35% for all other plastic packaging.
Packaging and Packaging Waste RegulationArt. 7(1)Manufacturers and importers of plastic packagingBusinesses
New — no predecessor
Trigger
a plastic part of packaging placed on the market
Obligation
Meet minimum recycled content in every plastic part of packaging, averaged per manufacturing plant per year: 30% for contact-sensitive PET, 10% for other contact-sensitive plastics, 30% for single-use plastic beverage bottles, 35% for all other plastic packaging.
Verbatim
By 1 January 2030 or 3 years from the date of entry into force of the implementing act referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article, whichever is the latest, any plastic part of packaging placed on the market shall contain the following minimum percentage of recycled content recovered from post-consumer plastic waste, per packaging type and format as referred to in Table 1 of Annex II, calculated as an average per manufacturing plant and year: (a) 30 % for contact-sensitive packaging made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as the major component, except single-use plastic beverage bottles; (b) 10 % for contact-sensitive packaging made from plastic materials other than PET, except single-use plastic beverage bottles; (c) 30 % for single-use plastic beverage bottles; (d) 35 % for plastic packaging other than those referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of this paragraph.
View source →Do not place on the market any packaging in the formats and for the uses listed in Annex V -- single-use grouped packaging for multipacks, single-use packaging for unprocessed fresh fruit and vegetables, single-use packaging for food and drink consumed on premises in the HORECA sector, single-use condiment and sauce sachets, hotel miniature toiletries, and very light plastic carrier bags outside hygiene or loose-food use.
Packaging and Packaging Waste RegulationArt. 25(1)Economic operators placing packaging on the marketBusinesses
New — no predecessor
Trigger
packaging in an Annex V format placed on the market
Obligation
Do not place on the market any packaging in the formats and for the uses listed in Annex V -- single-use grouped packaging for multipacks, single-use packaging for unprocessed fresh fruit and vegetables, single-use packaging for food and drink consumed on premises in the HORECA sector, single-use condiment and sauce sachets, hotel miniature toiletries, and very light plastic carrier bags outside hygiene or loose-food use.
Verbatim
From 1 January 2030, economic operators shall not place on the market packaging in the formats and for the uses listed in Annex V.
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 and Packaging Waste RegulationArt. 4(2) and (3)Economic operators placing compliant packaging on the marketBusinesses
New — no predecessor
Trigger
packaging compliant with Arts. 5 to 12
Entitlement
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.
Verbatim
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 →Packaging that qualifies as innovative may be sold for up to five years from the end of the year it was first placed on the market even though it does not meet the recyclability requirement -- a run-in period no other packaging gets.
Packaging and Packaging Waste RegulationArt. 6(10)Economic operators placing innovative packaging on the marketBusinesses
New — no predecessor
Trigger
packaging notified to the competent authority as innovative, with technical details and a timeline for reaching the recycled-at-scale requirement
Entitlement
Packaging that qualifies as innovative may be sold for up to five years from the end of the year it was first placed on the market even though it does not meet the recyclability requirement -- a run-in period no other packaging gets.
Verbatim
innovative packaging that does not comply with the requirements under paragraph 2 may be made available on the market up to 5 years from the end of the calendar year in which it was placed on the market.
View source →Packaging made or imported before the labelling deadlines may still be sold for three years after those requirements enter into force, so existing stock and pre-printed material do not have to be written off on the deadline.
Packaging and Packaging Waste RegulationArt. 12(12)Economic operators holding pre-deadline packaging stockBusinesses
New — no predecessor
Trigger
packaging manufactured in the Union or imported before the Art. 12(1), (2) or (4) deadlines
Entitlement
Packaging made or imported before the labelling deadlines may still be sold for three years after those requirements enter into force, so existing stock and pre-printed material do not have to be written off on the deadline.
Verbatim
Packaging as referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 that is manufactured in the Union or imported before the deadlines referred in those paragraphs and that does not comply with the criteria laid down in those paragraphs may be made available on the market until 3 years from the date of entry into force of the labelling requirements laid down in those paragraphs.
View source →No longer required to prove conformity from first principles where a harmonised standard covers the requirement: conformity is presumed, and Art. 37 adds a Commission common-specification fallback where no standard exists or the standard is inadequate.
Packaging and Packaging Waste RegulationArts. 36(1)-(3) and 37Economic operators demonstrating conformity of packagingBusinesses
Prior rule
Trigger
packaging complying with relevant harmonised standards, or with national standards where no harmonised standard existed
Obligation
Member States presumed compliance with the essential requirements in Annex II for packaging complying with relevant harmonised standards published in the Official Journal, or with notified national standards in areas where no harmonised standard existed.
New rule
Trigger
packaging conforming to a harmonised standard or a Commission common specification
Obligation
Conformity is presumed against the whole of Arts. 5 to 12, 24 and 26 -- a far wider requirement set than the old Annex II essential requirements -- and Art. 36(2) additionally presumes conformity for methods performed by accredited conformity assessment bodies. Where no harmonised standard exists or an existing one is inadequate, Art. 37 lets the Commission adopt common specifications that carry the same presumption.
Verbatim
Packaging which is in conformity with harmonised standards or parts thereof, the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be presumed to be in conformity with the requirements laid down in or pursuant to Articles 5 to 12, 24 and 26 covered by those standards or parts thereof.
View source →A producer whose fulfilment service is suspended for an EPR information failure may challenge that decision before a court in the Member State where the fulfilment service provider is established.
Packaging and Packaging Waste RegulationArt. 45(9)Producers whose fulfilment service has been suspendedBusinesses
New — no predecessor
Trigger
suspension of a fulfilment service under Art. 45(8)
Entitlement
A producer whose fulfilment service is suspended for an EPR information failure may challenge that decision before a court in the Member State where the fulfilment service provider is established.
Verbatim
the producer concerned shall have the right to challenge the decision of the fulfilment service provider before a court in a Member State in which the fulfilment service provider is established.
View source →All three counts are taken across every row of all seven register files, attributing a row to a sector where the slug appears in sectors_named or sectors_reached.
74: rows touching chem/plastics whose derived valence is Requirement, Prohibition, Support cut or Entitlement withdrawn. All 74 sit in data/ppwr.json; no other register file carries a duty-side row for the sector. MIN-01, RCY-01 and BAN-01 are cited from that set as the minimisation duty, the recycled-content minimums and the Annex V format prohibitions.
Zero: no row typed 'incentive' anywhere in the register carries chem/plastics in sectors_named or sectors_reached, and no row touching the sector derives the valence Opportunity. The sector's entire favourable side is the five further cited rows -- FREE-03, REC-05, LAB-04, CNF-02 and EPR-04 -- three transitional or mutual-recognition rights, one conformity simplification and one procedural right. None of them moves an amount, a rate, an eligibility or the existence of any funding, which is what the incentive type requires; that is the sense in which the count is zero. Three further PPWR rows carry direction 'unchanged' and are counted on neither side.
30: rows typed 'incentive' anywhere in the register that carry at least one slug in sectors_named or sectors_reached -- iaa 16, ets 9, nzia 3, crma 2. Of the register's 39 incentive rows, 9 attach to no sector at all. The same 30 rows are returned by the stricter test of derived valence Opportunity, because the one incentive row typed as a Support cut is among the 9 that name and reach no sector. None of the 30 touches chem/plastics.