European Chemicals and refining
How the tracked legislation reaches the sector — 80 measures name it directly, and 69 more reach it through supply chains, procurement or other acts.
Direction
118 burden · 28 benefit
3 unchanged — counted in neither
Status
98 adopted · 20 proposed · 31 mixed
Channel
80 direct · 69 reached
reached via supply chain 2 · procurement 1 · regulatory dependency 66
The platform holds 149 measures for European chemicals and refining: 118 imposing a burden, 28 conferring a benefit, 3 carried over unchanged. Of these, 98 from law in force, 20 from proposals, 31 from a file spanning both; 80 arrive directly, 69 through a channel.
Recent changes
What moved in this sector
2026-08-18Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation: 89 measures now on the platform, naming 10 sectors2026-08-17CBAM extension — downstream goods and anti-circumvention: 61 measures now on the platform, naming 6 sectors2026-08-13EU ETS revision: 51 measures now on the platform, naming 8 sectors2026-08-12Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation replaces Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive: 12 measures change
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Plastics converting
74 burden · 5 benefit · 3 unchanged | 44 direct · 38 reached
Named in the text
Measures applying to the sector as a whole
MST-02Member States must earmark at least 50% of their ETS auction revenue (excluding indirect-cost compensation) for a defined list of decarbonisation priority purposes (clean energy/grids, industrial decarbonisation, maritime/aviation decarbonisation, modal shift, municipal waste hierarchy measures, circularity, lead markets for low-carbon products, R&D).Member States · GovernmentsRequirementFND-08ETS-sector businesses become eligible recipients of Member-State-channelled ETS auction revenue for decarbonisation investment support across a defined menu of purposes: topping up EU-level support mechanisms, clean energy/grid buildout around industrial clusters, industrial decarbonisation (electrification, CCUS, CO2 transport network), maritime and aviation decarbonisation, modal shift, municipal waste hierarchy measures, circularity, and lead markets for low-carbon products such as green steel.Businesses in ETS sectors (industrial, maritime, aviation) and waste management authorities · BusinessesOpportunityPRM-04Automatic classification as a 'strategic project' contributing to resilience and decarbonisation or resource efficiency, granting access to the priority/streamlined treatment of the future Environmental Assessment Regulation.Promoters of energy-intensive industry decarbonisation projects · BusinessesEntitlementLM-01Have emissions and other data used to calculate a product's greenhouse gas intensity verified by accredited verifiers before it can be classified/labelled as low-carbon.Manufacturers seeking a greenhouse-gas-intensity classification for industrial products · BusinessesRequirementIAAB-CHEM-01Prospect of Union-level demand-side measures promoting production, sale and use of Union-origin substances/mixtures from sustainable carbon sourcesChemical industry manufacturers using sustainable carbon sources · BusinessesOpportunitySCP-02Comply with the CBAM regime for goods originating in third countries that were previously released for free circulation in the customs territory of an EFTA State that has incorporated the CBAM.Customs declarants importing goods previously released for free circulation in a CBAM-integrated EFTA State · BusinessesSimplificationSCP-03Bear responsibility for having documentation proving prior release for free circulation in an EFTA State available at the moment the customs declaration is lodged.Customs declarants relying on the EFTA prior-free-circulation exemption · BusinessesRequirementDECL-01Include in the CBAM declaration evidence that the imported goods were actually produced at the declared installation and at the declared time of production.Authorised CBAM declarants for goods flagged for supply-chain traceability risk · BusinessesRequirementDECL-02Where a goods/origin combination is designated high-risk for abusive practices and actual emissions are claimed, prove in the declaration that the abuse risk has not materialised.Authorised CBAM declarants claiming actual emissions for high-risk goods/origin combinations · BusinessesRequirementDECL-03Report total embedded emissions per tonne of goods (or per MWh for electricity), and have them verified where actual emissions are supplied by the operator through the CBAM registry.Authorised CBAM declarants · BusinessesRequirementDECL-05Produce, on request during review of the CBAM declaration, evidence that the imported goods were produced at the installation named in the declaration.Authorised CBAM declarants determining embedded emissions on actual emissions · BusinessesRequirementDECL-06Keep the full underlying records required to calculate embedded emissions, rather than the information actually disclosed to the declarant under Art. 10(7).Authorised CBAM declarants · BusinessesSimplificationANTI-01Refrain from practices whose purpose is to gain a benefit by unduly avoiding, wholly or partly, the CBAM financial liability.All actors in the CBAM supply chain · BusinessesRequirementANTI-02Refrain from artificially adjusting supply chains so that goods qualify for lower default values; doing so is circumvention.Importers, declarants and operators in CBAM supply chains · BusinessesRequirementANTI-03Monitor the CBAM's internal-market impact, warn importers, declarants, competent and customs authorities of high-risk goods/origin combinations, and legislate the conditions for using actual emissions for them.European Commission · GovernmentsRequirementFIN-01Provide a bank guarantee payable at first demand, sized on the certificates that would have to be surrendered, where the competent authority finds financial capacity is not demonstrated.Applicants and authorised CBAM declarants failing to demonstrate financial capacity · BusinessesRequirementFIN-03From 2028, satisfy the quarterly certificate-holding requirement using only certificates bought in the same year, so certificates carried over from earlier years no longer count.Authorised CBAM declarants · BusinessesRequirementFIN-04Pay the CBAM certificate price as fixed by the fallback rules for weeks with no auction or a single auction.Authorised CBAM declarants purchasing CBAM certificates · BusinessesRequirementFIN-06Have the documentation evidencing a carbon price paid in a third country certified by a person independent from the authorised CBAM declarant AS WELL AS from that country's authorities.Authorised CBAM declarants claiming a carbon price paid in a third country · BusinessesSimplificationFIN-08Apply the Commission's conversion rules when turning a carbon price paid abroad into a reduction in CBAM certificates, including the evidence of actual payment and any deduction of Paris Agreement Article 6 carbon credits.Authorised CBAM declarants claiming a carbon price paid in a third country · BusinessesRequirementDATA-01An operator may pass verified emissions and carbon-price information not only to an authorised CBAM declarant but to another operator, so verified data can move along the supply chain.Operators of installations in third countries registered in the CBAM registry · BusinessesEntitlementDATA-02An operator may limit what it hands the declarant to a summary of the registered information, and the declarant is entitled to rely on that summary to discharge its Article 8 verification obligation.Operators of third-country installations and the authorised CBAM declarants they supply · BusinessesEntitlementDATA-03Remain responsible for surrendering the correct number of CBAM certificates even where the declaration was built on information disclosed by the operator.Authorised CBAM declarants relying on operator-disclosed information · BusinessesRequirementDATA-04Ensure that the conditions laid down for using actual emissions are met for the relevant combinations of goods and origins.Operators of installations registered in the CBAM registry · BusinessesRequirementDATA-05A third-country operator may have its installation registered in the CBAM registry not only to support actual-emissions verification but to establish the carbon price it has paid at home.Operators of installations located in third countries · BusinessesEntitlementCUST-01Communicate import data to the Commission automatically, now including bills of discharge, re-export declarations and equivalent customs documentation, and the importer's identity where there is no EORI number.Customs authorities of the Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCUST-02Accept that the CBAM account number entered in the customs declaration fixes which authorised CBAM declarant assumes the obligations for that consignment.Authorised CBAM declarants and importers · BusinessesRequirementGOV-02Report to Parliament and Council before 1 January 2028 and biennially thereafter on CBAM's operation, covering carbon leakage, internal-market and price effects, governance, circumvention practices, penalties and per-country emission intensity.European Commission · GovernmentsRequirementGOV-04Set out in the verification report the quantities of each type of goods produced, the quantification of the installation's direct emissions, how those emissions are attributed across goods, and the energy and emissions flows not associated with those goods.Accredited verifiers preparing CBAM verification reports · BusinessesSimplificationCBAMB-SCP-08A third country or territory may be added to or removed from the Annex III exemption lists by delegated act, including as a consequence of CBAM incorporation into the EEA Agreement, and under urgency where imperative grounds require it.European Commission; importers of goods originating in third countries listed in Annex III · GovernmentsRequirementCBAMB-VER-02Use a verifier accredited by a Member State national accreditation body, there being no route to recognition of a third-country accreditation body.Authorised CBAM declarants and third-country operators procuring verification · GovernmentsSimplificationCBAMB-DECL-07Report, in the standard declaration format, the detail supporting each total -- per installation and per country of origin -- including the carbon price paid and the default carbon price for the purposes of Art. 9(4).Authorised CBAM declarants · BusinessesRequirementCBAMB-ANTI-05Designate, by implementing act, the goods or goods/origin combinations for which traceability evidence must accompany the declaration, and the type of evidence required.European Commission · GovernmentsRequirementCBAMB-CUST-05Communicate customs information at the scope, periodicity, timing and by the means the implementing acts prescribe, for the competent-authority flow under Art. 25(3) as well as the customs flow under Art. 25(2).Member State customs authorities and competent authorities · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-04A decarbonisation project spanning several facilities on one site may be split, by agreement with the single point of contact, into smaller projects so each fits the permitting time limits.Promoters of energy-intensive industry decarbonisation projects · BusinessesEntitlementSUB-01Manufacture packaging so that the presence and concentration of substances of concern is minimised, including in emissions and in waste-management outputs such as secondary raw materials and ashes.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementSUB-05Where total fluorine exceeds 50 mg/kg, supply on request proof of whether the measured fluorine is PFAS or non-PFAS, so the packaging manufacturer or importer can complete its technical documentation.Manufacturers, importers and downstream users under REACH supplying materials to packaging makers · BusinessesRequirementOPS-03Give the packaging manufacturer all information and documentation it needs to demonstrate conformity, including the Annex VII technical documentation, in a language the manufacturer easily understands.Suppliers of packaging or packaging materials · BusinessesRequirement
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FREE-01Place packaging on the market only if it complies with this Regulation.Any economic operator placing packaging on the market · BusinessesRequirementFREE-03Packaging 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.Economic operators placing compliant packaging on the market · BusinessesEntitlementSUB-02Keep the sum of lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium in packaging or packaging components at or below 100 mg/kg.Manufacturers and importers of packaging · BusinessesNeutralSUB-03Rely on a heavy-metals exemption only where a Commission delegated act grants it; the exemptions are now time-limited, subject to marking, information and regular reporting requirements, and reviewable.Manufacturers relying on a heavy-metals derogation · BusinessesRequirementSUB-04Do not place food-contact packaging on the market at or above 25 ppb for any single PFAS, 250 ppb for the sum of targeted PFAS, or 50 ppm for total PFAS including polymeric.Manufacturers and importers of food-contact packaging · BusinessesProhibitionREC-01Make all packaging recyclable: designed for material recycling, and collectable, sortable and recycled at scale when it becomes waste.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementREC-02Assess and grade each packaging unit A, B or C for recyclability; from 2030 do not place packaging below grade C on the market, and from 1 January 2038 do not place packaging below grade B.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementREC-03Re-comply with design-for-recycling criteria within 3 years each time the Commission adopts or updates them by delegated act.Economic operators placing packaging on the market · BusinessesRequirementREC-04Pay EPR financial contributions modulated by the packaging's recyclability performance grade.Producers subject to extended producer responsibility · BusinessesRequirementREC-05Packaging 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.Economic operators placing innovative packaging on the market · BusinessesEntitlementRCY-01Meet 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.Manufacturers and importers of plastic packaging · BusinessesRequirementRCY-02Meet the 2040 recycled-content step: 50% for contact-sensitive PET, 25% for other contact-sensitive plastics, 65% for single-use plastic beverage bottles, 65% for all other plastic packaging.Manufacturers and importers of plastic packaging · BusinessesRequirementRCY-03Calculate and verify recycled-content percentages by the Commission's methodology, and where the methodology requires it submit to independent third-party audit.Manufacturers of recycled content and of plastic packaging placed on the market · BusinessesRequirementCMP-01Make the packaging listed in Art. 3(1) point (1)(f) and sticky labels on fruit and vegetables compostable in industrially controlled conditions, and home-compostable where the Member State requires it.Manufacturers of the listed packaging and of fruit and vegetable labels · BusinessesRequirementCMP-02Design biodegradable-polymer and other biodegradable packaging for material recycling under Art. 6, without affecting the recyclability of other waste streams.Manufacturers of biodegradable packaging · BusinessesRequirementMIN-01Design packaging so weight and volume are reduced to the minimum necessary for functionality, and document the assessment against the Annex IV performance criteria.Manufacturers and importers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementMIN-02Do 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.Manufacturers and importers of packaging · BusinessesProhibitionREU-01Meet all nine reusability criteria before packaging counts as reusable: designed for multiple rotations, emptiable and refillable without damage, reconditionable per Annex VI Part B, labellable, safe to handle, and recyclable at end of life.Manufacturers of reusable packaging · BusinessesRequirementLAB-01Mark packaging with the harmonised material-composition label, pictogram-based and understandable including for people with disabilities; mark compostable packaging as compostable, not home-compostable and not for disposal in nature.Economic operators placing packaging on the market · BusinessesRequirementLAB-02Label reusable packaging as reusable, carry a QR code or open digital data carrier giving re-use system and collection-point information and enabling trip and rotation counting, and distinguish reusable from single-use packaging at the point of sale.Economic operators placing reusable packaging on the market · BusinessesRequirementLAB-03Do not display labels, marks, symbols or inscriptions likely to mislead or confuse consumers about packaging sustainability, other packaging characteristics, or waste-management options where this Regulation has harmonised the labelling.Economic operators · BusinessesProhibitionLAB-04Packaging 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.Economic operators holding pre-deadline packaging stock · BusinessesEntitlementLAB-06Make an environmental claim about a packaging property regulated here only where the packaging exceeds the applicable minimum requirement, and state whether the claim covers the unit, part of it, or all the operator's packaging.Economic operators making environmental claims about packaging · BusinessesRequirementOPS-01Carry out the Annex VII conformity assessment, draw up the technical documentation and the EU declaration of conformity, and keep both for 5 years for single-use and 10 years for reusable packaging.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementOPS-02Keep series production in conformity, tracking changes in packaging design and characteristics and in harmonised standards, common specifications and other technical specifications.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementOPS-04Before placing packaging on the market, verify that the manufacturer carried out the conformity assessment and drew up the technical documentation, that the packaging is labelled under Art. 12 and accompanied by the required documents, and mark your own name, trade name and contact address on the packaging.Importers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementOPS-07On request, identify to market surveillance authorities every operator that supplied you with packaging or packaged products and every operator you supplied, retaining the ability to do so for 5 years for single-use and 10 years for reusable packaging.Economic operators · BusinessesRequirementBAN-01Do 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.Economic operators placing packaging on the market · BusinessesProhibitionRSY-01Ensure a re-use system meeting Annex VI, including a collection incentive, exists in each Member State where you first make reusable packaging available, and document the system's compliance in the technical documentation with written confirmations from system participants.Economic operators first making reusable packaging available in a Member State · BusinessesRequirementRSY-02Participate in one or more Annex VI Part A re-use systems, recondition reusable packaging per Annex VI Part B before offering it again, and in closed-loop systems return packaging to an approved collection point.Economic operators using reusable packaging · BusinessesRequirementCNF-01Demonstrate compliance with Arts. 5 to 12, 24 and 26 using reliable, accurate and reproducible test, measurement and calculation methods reflecting the state of the art, with results of low uncertainty.Economic operators demonstrating conformity · BusinessesRequirementCNF-02No 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.Economic operators demonstrating conformity of packaging · BusinessesSimplificationCNF-03Prove conformity without relying on a national standard: the route by which a notified national standard conferred a presumption of conformity where no harmonised standard existed is not carried over.Economic operators in Member States that had notified national packaging standards · BusinessesRequirementCNF-04Run the Annex VII internal production control conformity assessment procedure for the Arts. 5 to 12 requirements.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementCNF-05Draw up, continuously update and keep the EU declaration of conformity in the Annex VIII model, translated as the Member State of marketing requires, and assume responsibility for the packaging's compliance by drawing it up.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementREG-01Register in the national producer register of every Member State where you first make packaging or packaged products available, or where you unpack packaged products without being an end user, supplying the Annex IX Part A information; do not make packaging available at all until registered.Producers of packaging and packaged products · BusinessesRequirementREG-02Report the Annex IX Part B information to the register by 1 June each year for the preceding calendar year, with a lighter Part B point 2 return for producers under 10 tonnes; submit quarterly instead where the Member State requires it for budgetary reasons, and notify changes and cessation without undue delay.Producers, their authorised representatives, or their producer responsibility organisation · BusinessesRequirementEPR-01Carry 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.Producers of packaging and packaged products · BusinessesRequirementEPR-04A 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.Producers whose fulfilment service has been suspended · BusinessesEntitlementEPR-05Apply to the competent authority for authorisation to fulfil extended producer responsibility, individually or through a producer responsibility organisation, and notify changes or cessation without undue delay.Producers fulfilling EPR individually, and producer responsibility organisations · BusinessesRequirementEPR-06Provide an adequate financial guarantee covering waste management costs owed in the event of non-compliance, permanent cessation of operations or insolvency.Producers fulfilling EPR individually, and producer responsibility organisations · BusinessesRequirementINF-01Make available to end users information on their role in waste prevention, the re-use arrangements available, their role in separate collection including for packaging containing hazardous products, the meaning of on-pack labels and symbols, and the impact of littering and of discarding packaging in mixed municipal waste.Producers, producer responsibility organisations, or appointed public authorities · BusinessesRequirement
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CBAM-01Producers of CBAM-covered goods see their free allocation shrink on a fixed annual CBAM-factor schedule, falling to 0% from 2038, as CBAM replaces free allocation as the carbon-leakage instrument for those goods.Operators of installations producing goods covered by the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism · BusinessesSimplificationCBAM-02When new product categories are added to the CBAM goods list, their free allocation also starts phasing down on a set CBAM-factor schedule (97.9% then 95.8%, then the general schedule from 2028).Operators producing goods newly added to CBAM Annex I · BusinessesSimplificationPRM-01Establish a national single access point through which project promoters submit the single application for industrial manufacturing projects, using the European Business Wallet.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-02Establish a single permit-granting procedure based on a single application covering all permits required for industrial manufacturing projects, coordinated by a designated competent authority.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-03Acknowledge completeness of a permit application, or request missing information, within a fixed deadline; a further deadline applies to a second request for missing information.Member States' competent authorities · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-05Publish, via the Single Digital Gateway national single points of contact, a new information category on permit-granting procedures for industrial manufacturing projects, replacing separate entries.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-07Remove the separate 'Critical raw materials projects' and 'Net-zero technology manufacturing projects' rows from the Single Digital Gateway Annex II catalogue, consolidating them into the unified business-permission entry.Member States · GovernmentsSimplificationAA-01Designate at least one industrial manufacturing acceleration area to cluster industrial manufacturing projects in one or more strategic sectors listed in Annex I.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAA-02Notify the Commission of the designation of an industrial manufacturing acceleration area.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAA-03Conduct, and review, a comprehensive analysis of the energy needs of each acceleration area and the required energy infrastructure capacity.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAA-04aPrepare and issue an aggregated baseline permit authorising industrial activities within each designated acceleration area, covering permits required for projects located there.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAA-04bProject promoters within an acceleration area only need to obtain additional permits that fall outside the scope of the aggregated baseline permit, cutting the permitting burden.Industrial manufacturing project promoters located in acceleration areas · BusinessesEntitlementIAAB-AA-06Automatic 'strategic project' status for every industrial manufacturing project sited in an acceleration area, granting priority and accelerated treatment under the future Environmental Assessment Regulation.Promoters of industrial manufacturing projects located within an acceleration area · BusinessesEntitlementGOV-01Carry out a periodic evaluation of the Regulation and its contribution to the internal market's functioning, covering resilience, economic security, decarbonisation and the industrialisation objective.European CommissionRequirementGOV-03Lay down effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalty rules for infringements of the Regulation and notify the Commission of those rules without delay.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementELEC-03Accept the standard default value for indirect emissions where the exporting country's actual electricity mix is cleaner than that default.Importers of goods with indirect emissions from lower-carbon third countries · BusinessesSimplificationCBAMB-ELEC-09Use, as the emission factor for electricity, the weighted average CO2 intensity of all electricity produced in the geographic area, in place of a factor representing the emission intensity of the electricity consumed in producing the goods.Importers and authorised CBAM declarants of electricity and of goods carrying embedded indirect emissions · BusinessesRequirementSP-01A manufacturing project meeting any one of the resilience, supply-chain or sustainability criteria is recognised as a net-zero strategic project, which carries the priority permitting track and the public-interest status of Art. 15.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects in the Union · BusinessesEntitlementSP-02File an application for strategic-project recognition containing evidence against the criteria, a business plan evaluating financial viability, and a draft timetable showing when the project contributes to the Union benchmark.Promoters applying for net-zero strategic project status · BusinessesRequirementSP-05Projects already backed by the ETS Innovation Fund, an IPCEI, a European Hydrogen Valley or the Hydrogen Bank get strategic-project status on a written request, with no formal application.Promoters of Innovation Fund, IPCEI, Hydrogen Valley and Hydrogen Bank backed manufacturing projects · BusinessesEntitlementSP-07Strategic projects count as being in the public interest, and may be treated as of overriding public interest, in the derogations of the Water, Birds and Habitats Directives and of nature-restoration law.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesEntitlementCO2-02Deliver an individual share of the Union's 50 Mt/year CO2 injection capacity target by 2030, calculated pro-rata on the entity's share of Union crude oil and natural gas production over 2020-2023, as permitted capacity available to the market.Authorised oil and gas producers above the de minimis production threshold · BusinessesRequirementCO2-07Report annually, publicly, on CO2 capture, storage and transport projects in progress, the injection and storage capacity they need, national support measures, capture targets, and cross-border cooperation.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCO2-10Take the measures needed to open access to CO2 transport networks and storage sites for geological storage, as far as it is economically feasible or where a potential customer is willing to pay.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PRM-07Complete permitting within 18 months where the project's yearly manufacturing capacity is not measured in GW.Member State permit-granting authorities · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-SP-10A CO2 storage project sited in the Union that contributes to the Art. 20 injection objective and has applied for a storage permit is recognised as strategic -- and so is any capture project and any transport infrastructure project attached to it.Promoters of CO2 storage, capture and transport projects · BusinessesEntitlementNZIAB-SP-11A project in a less developed or transition region or a Just Transition Fund territory, eligible under cohesion rules, is recognised as strategic on a written request once the award procedure has run -- with no formal application.Promoters of cohesion-funded projects in less developed and transition regions and Just Transition Fund territories · BusinessesEntitlementNZIAB-CO2-11Design every CO2 storage site to operate for at least five years, and run it on fair and open access, transparently and without discrimination.Operators of CO2 storage sites counting towards the Union injection objective · BusinessesRequirementNZIAB-CO2-12Publish the data on every area where a CO2 storage site could be permitted, saline aquifers included, to at least the detail the national energy and climate plan guidance asks for.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-CO2-13Where no storage projects are in progress, report instead on the plans to decarbonise industry, including cross-border transport to stores in other Member States and CO2 utilisation projects.Member States with no CO2 storage projects in progress · GovernmentsRequirementFREE-02Do not prohibit, restrict or impede the placing on the market of packaging that complies with Arts. 5 to 12, and do not enforce additional national requirements against compliant packaging.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementLAB-05Ensure harmonised labels enabling separate collection of each material fraction are affixed visibly, legibly and indelibly on all packaging-waste receptacles.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementOPS-05Before making packaging available, verify that the producer is registered in the Art. 44 register, that the packaging carries its Art. 12 labelling, and that the manufacturer and importer have marked their identification; do not make it available until any non-compliance is corrected.Distributors of packaging · BusinessesRequirementOPS-06Ensure warehousing, handling, packing, addressing and dispatch conditions do not jeopardise the packaging's compliance with Arts. 5 to 12.Fulfilment service providers · BusinessesRequirementOPS-08Report the Annex XII Table 3 packaging-waste information to the competent authority annually through the Art. 35(1) electronic registry, and give producers or their producer responsibility organisation everything they need for their own Art. 44(10) reporting.Packaging waste management operators · BusinessesRequirementEXC-01Keep empty space in grouped, transport and e-commerce packaging at or below 50%, counting filling materials such as paper cuttings, air cushions, bubble wrap and foam chips as empty space.Economic operators who fill grouped, transport or e-commerce packaging · BusinessesRequirementEXC-02Reduce empty space in sales packaging to the minimum necessary for functionality and product protection, assessed at the time of filling for products subject to settlement or requiring headspace.Economic operators who fill sales packaging · BusinessesRequirementRTG-01Ensure at least 40% of transport packaging -- pallets, foldable plastic boxes, trays, crates, IBCs, pails, drums, canisters, pallet wrappings and straps -- is reusable within a re-use system, rising to an endeavour of 70% from 2040.Economic operators using transport packaging in the Union · BusinessesRequirementRTG-02Use only reusable transport packaging within a re-use system for movements between your own sites and those of linked or partner enterprises.Economic operators moving goods between their own or linked sites · BusinessesRequirementRTG-03Use only reusable transport packaging within a re-use system for deliveries to another economic operator inside the same Member State.Economic operators delivering to another operator in the same Member State · BusinessesRequirementRTG-04Ensure at least 10% of grouped packaging in the form of boxes, excluding cardboard, is reusable within a re-use system, rising to an endeavour of 25% from 2040.Economic operators using grouped packaging boxes · BusinessesRequirementRTG-05Make at least 10% of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages available in reusable packaging within a re-use system, rising to an endeavour of 40% from 2040, and ensure own-brand packaged products contribute fairly and proportionately.Final distributors of beverages · BusinessesRequirementRTG-08Calculate achievement of each re-use target separately, in equivalent units of the listed formats for transport and grouped packaging, and in sales units or volume of beverages for the final-distributor targets.Economic operators and final distributors subject to the Art. 29 targets · BusinessesRequirementRTG-09Report re-use target achievement to the competent authority within 6 months of each reporting year's end, through its electronic system and in its format, with further information on request.Economic operators subject to the Art. 29 re-use targets · BusinessesRequirementTKA-01Provide a system letting consumers bring their own container to be filled with take-away hot or cold beverages and with ready-prepared food, at no higher cost and on no less favourable terms than the same product in single-use packaging, and inform consumers of the option at the point of sale.Final distributors in the HORECA sector selling take-away food and drink · BusinessesRequirementTKA-02Offer consumers the option of take-away food and drink in reusable packaging within a re-use system, at no higher cost and on no less favourable terms than single-use, informed at the point of sale; from 2030 endeavour to offer 10% of products in a reusable format.Final distributors in the HORECA sector selling take-away food and drink · BusinessesRequirementBAG-01Meet the 40-bags-per-capita ceiling in EVERY year after 2025, not only in 2025, and lose the alternative route of discharging the duty by ensuring bags are not supplied free of charge.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementBAG-02Keep annual consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags at or below 40 per capita -- the level itself, unchanged from the repealed directive.Member States · GovernmentsNeutralAUT-01Designate competent authorities for this Chapter and for Arts. 6(10), 29(1)-(7) and (9) and 30 to 34, lay down their organisation and the administrative and procedural rules for registration, reporting oversight, EPR supervision, EPR authorisation and information, and notify the Commission by 12 July 2025.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAUT-02Add a dedicated packaging chapter to the Directive 2008/98/EC waste management plan covering Arts. 48, 50 and 52 measures, and a dedicated packaging chapter to the waste prevention programme covering Arts. 43 and 51 measures and litter.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementPRV-01Reduce packaging waste generated per capita against a 2018 baseline by at least 5% by 2030, 10% by 2035 and 15% by 2040, and endeavour to reduce plastic packaging waste specifically.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementEPR-02Before allowing a producer to use the platform, obtain its Art. 44 registration details and registration number for the consumer's Member State and a self-certification of EPR compliance, and make best efforts to assess whether that information is complete and reliable.Providers of online platforms allowing distance contracts with producers · BusinessesRequirementEPR-03Check the producer's registration and EPR self-certification against an official database or the public register, require correction where the information looks inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, and suspend the service until it is corrected, giving reasons.Fulfilment service providers · BusinessesRequirementCOL-01Set up return and separate collection covering the whole territory and all packaging waste, open to operators, authorities and third parties and to imported products on non-discriminatory terms; collect design-for-recycling-compliant packaging for recycling and prohibit its incineration and landfill.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCOL-02Set mandatory national collection objectives for the Art. 52 materials, consistent with the recycling targets and with the Art. 7 recycled-content requirements.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementDRS-01Separately collect at least 90% by weight per year of single-use plastic beverage bottles and single-use metal beverage containers up to three litres.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementDRS-02Set up deposit and return systems for single-use plastic beverage bottles and metal beverage containers, with a deposit charged at the point of sale, meeting the Annex X minimum requirements.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementRRF-01Take measures encouraging re-use and refill systems that comply with Arts. 27 and 28 and Annex VI without compromising food hygiene or consumer safety, and ensure EPR schemes and deposit and return systems allocate a minimum share of their budget to reduction and prevention.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementRCT-01Achieve recycling of at least 65% of all packaging waste by weight by 31 December 2025 and 70% by 31 December 2030, with material lines of 50/55% plastic, 25/30% wood, 70/80% ferrous metals, 50/60% aluminium, 70/75% glass and 75/85% paper and cardboard.Member States · GovernmentsNeutralRCT-02Calculate packaging waste generated and packaging waste recycled each calendar year on the Art. 53 rules, exhaustively, adjusted for comparability, reliability and completeness under the Art. 56(7) implementing act.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementRCT-03Where an adjusted recycling target is claimed for re-use, calculate it by subtracting the three-year average share of reusable sales packaging, capped at five percentage points, and account separately for wooden packaging repaired for re-use.Member States claiming a re-use adjustment · GovernmentsRequirementINF-02Report to the Commission each calendar year on recycling target implementation and reusable packaging, per-capita consumption of each carrier-bag category, the DRS separate collection rate, and the quantities of packaging made available, collected and recycled by category.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementINF-03Establish harmonised packaging and packaging waste databases carrying the Annex XII data and information on flows, made publicly accessible in a machine-readable, interoperable and re-usable format.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementMSV-01Lay down effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties for infringements, including administrative fines for breaches of Arts. 24 to 29, and notify the Commission of the rules and of any later amendment.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementMSV-02Where there is sufficient reason to believe packaging presents a risk to the environment or human health, evaluate it against all relevant requirements, require the operator to take corrective action, and where the operator does not act, prohibit or restrict the packaging or withdraw or recall it.Member State market surveillance authorities · GovernmentsRequirementMSV-03Communicate national non-compliance measures without delay to the Art. 25(1) authorities under Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 so they feed the border risk analysis, and act on formal non-compliance under Art. 62.Member State market surveillance and designated border authorities · GovernmentsRequirementGPP-01Apply the Commission's minimum mandatory green public procurement requirements when awarding contracts where packaging or packaged products represent more than 30% of the estimated contract value or of the value of products used by the contracted services.Contracting authorities and contracting entities under Directives 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU · GovernmentsRequirementSUB-01Do not place on the market a battery containing a substance restricted by Annex I otherwise than on the conditions that Annex sets.Economic operators placing batteries on the market · BusinessesProhibitionDD-01Set up and implement a battery due diligence policy covering the raw materials in the battery and the social and environmental risks in their supply chain.Economic operators placing batteries on the market · BusinessesRequirement
Findings
What this means for chemicals and refining
Where the pressure comes from
Pressure arrives from 5 acts directly, 1 more without ever naming it
Pressure arrives at European chemicals and refining from 5 acts that name it directly, and from 1 more that never does: Batteries Regulation.
EU ETS revision — names the sector in 2 measures, reaches it in 2 more via another act
Industrial Accelerator Act — names the sector in 3 measures, reaches it in 13 more via another act
CBAM extension — names the sector in 29 measures, reaches it in 2 more via another act
Net-Zero Industry Act — names the sector in 1 measure, reaches it in 13 more via another act and supply chain
Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation — names the sector in 45 measures, reaches it in 37 more via another act and procurement
Batteries Regulation — never names the sector; reaches it in 2 measures via another act and supply chain
Net position
What the corpus does to this sector, in total
149measures reach this sector · 116 press, 28 relieve or grant
In force Proposed or mixed basis
Supply chain and country exposure
What chemicals and refining buys, sells and imports
Inputs come from
What this sector buys
- wholesale trade10.4%
- refined petroleum6.9%
- electricity & gas5%
- land transport3.8%
- mining3.5%
- food, drink & tobacco3.1%
- legal, accounting & consulting2.8%
- retail trade2.5%
- everything else62%
Goods go to
Who buys from this sector
- rubber & plastics11.3%
- crop & animal farming5.6%
- construction4.5%
- pharmaceuticals3.9%
- refined petroleum3.5%
- food, drink & tobacco2.7%
- health2.5%
- vehicles2.4%
- everything else63.6%
Import exposure
21.9% of inputs come from outside the EU
- rest of world31.1%
- United States15.8%
- Switzerland9.9%
- United Kingdom9.1%
- China7.9%
- Norway3.9%
- India3.3%
- Saudi Arabia3%
- everything else16.1%
chemicals (C20). percent of sector's total inputs (suppliers) / total output (customers); OTHER row carries the remainder to 100. Source: Eurostat input-output data, 2026 edition, 2024 reference year (EU inter-country tables, industry by industry).
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