36 of the packaging regulation's measures name the food and beverage sector directly. The chemicals industry, by contrast, is affected mainly as a supplier to the companies that make packaging.
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5 measures, and 1 figure from Eurostat input-output data. Every one is checked against its source before this page is built.
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 →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 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 in an Annex V format placed on the market
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.
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 →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.
a plastic part of packaging placed on the market
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.
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 →Carry extended producer responsibility for all packaging first made available or unpacked in a Member State, with financial contributions additionally covering the cost of labelling waste receptacles under Art. 13 and of compositional surveys of mixed municipal waste.
all packaging placed on the national market
Member States had to ensure that extended producer responsibility schemes were established for all packaging by 31 December 2024, in accordance with Arts. 8 and 8a of Directive 2008/98/EC.
packaging first made available in a Member State, or unpacked without being an end user
EPR is imposed directly on the producer by the Regulation rather than through a Member State duty to set up a scheme, and the cost base is widened to include receptacle labelling and mixed-municipal-waste compositional surveys.
Producers shall have extended producer responsibility under the schemes established in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a of Directive 2008/98/EC and with this Section for the packaging, including packaging of packaged products, that they make available for the first time on the territory of a Member State or that they unpack without being end users.
View source →Counts are taken across every row in data/ppwr.json (89 rows). foodbev appears in sectors_named on 36 rows and in sectors_reached on a further 32; the two sets do not overlap, so 68 of the file's 89 rows carry the sector one way or the other. The 36 named rows are FREE-01, FREE-03, SUB-04, REC-04, RCY-01, RCY-02, CMP-01, MIN-01, MIN-02, REU-01, LAB-01, LAB-02, LAB-03, LAB-04, LAB-06, OPS-04, OPS-07, EXC-01, EXC-02, BAN-01, RSY-01, RSY-02, RTG-01, RTG-02, RTG-03, RTG-04, RTG-05, RTG-08, RTG-09, REG-01, REG-02, EPR-01, EPR-04, EPR-05, EPR-06 and INF-01. The five cited rows are drawn from that set: FREE-01 is the market-access gate, MIN-01 the minimisation duty, BAN-01 the Annex V format prohibitions, RCY-01 the recycled-content minimums and EPR-01 the extended-producer-responsibility duty, which addresses producers of packaged products rather than of packaging. The chemicals comparison is the supply route: the stored FIGARO figure has C20 (chemicals) supplying 21.6% of chem/plastics inputs in the EU view. The body says 'mainly' rather than 'only' because chem is not absent from the regulation's own text -- it is named on 3 rows (the substance provisions, SUB-01 among them) and reached on 5, against 36 named rows for foodbev. This finding replaces the withdrawn chemicals-led one, which led on that supplier share and did not state the sector the regulation names most often after the packaging makers themselves.
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