European Hotels, restaurants and catering
How the tracked legislation reaches the sector — 6 measures name it directly, and 10 more reach it through supply chains, procurement or other acts.
Direction
15 burden · 1 benefit
Status
16 adopted
Channel
6 direct · 10 reached
reached via supply chain 1 · regulatory dependency 9
The platform holds 16 measures for European hotels, restaurants and catering: 15 imposing a burden, 1 conferring a benefit. Of these, 16 from law in force; 6 arrive directly, 10 through a channel.
Named in the text
Measures that address hotels, restaurants and catering directly
BAN-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 · BusinessesProhibitionRFL-01Publish and keep updated the rules for refill -- permitted container types, hygiene standards, and the end user's own health and safety responsibility -- displayed on the premises or otherwise provided.Economic operators offering refill · BusinessesRequirementRFL-02Make refill stations comply with Annex VI Part C and with other Union requirements for selling through refill, and do not give away free packaging or containers at refill stations unless they meet Annex VI or sit in a deposit and return system.Economic operators offering refill · BusinessesRequirementRFL-03An operator may refuse to fill a customer's own container where the refill rules are not met -- in particular where the container is unhygienic or unsuitable for food or drink -- and bears no liability for hygiene or food-safety problems arising from a container the customer supplied.Economic operators offering refill · BusinessesEntitlementTKA-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 · BusinessesRequirement
Reaches you without naming you
Measures that land through a channel
Another act 9 · Supply chain 1
SUB-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 · 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 · 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-06Take back free of charge all reusable packaging of the same type, form and size you made available, at or close to the point of handover, and fully redeem or notify the associated deposit.Final distributors subject to the beverage re-use target · 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 · 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 · BusinessesRequirementDRS-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 · 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 · GovernmentsRequirement
Where the pressure comes from
Pressure arrives from 1 act directly
Pressure arrives at European hotels, restaurants and catering from 1 act that names it directly.
Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation — names the sector in 6 measures, reaches it in 10 more via another act and supply chain
Net position
What the corpus does to this sector, in total
16measures reach this sector · 13 press, 1 relieve or grant
In force Proposed or mixed basis
Supply chain and country exposure
What hotels, restaurants and catering buys, sells and imports
Inputs come from
What this sector buys
- food, drink & tobacco28.9%
- wholesale trade10.5%
- real estate9.8%
- electricity & gas4.5%
- retail trade4.1%
- legal, accounting & consulting4.1%
- crop & animal farming3.5%
- security & facilities3.3%
- everything else31.3%
Goods go to
Who buys from this sector
- travel agencies12.6%
- wholesale trade6.2%
- construction5.4%
- public administration4.2%
- warehousing3.9%
- legal, accounting & consulting3.9%
- land transport3.8%
- social work3.1%
- everything else56.9%
This list covers sales to other industries only. A further 79.6% of what this sector sells goes straight to final use — households, government and capital formation — and so appears nowhere above.
Import exposure
5.6% of inputs come from outside the EU
- rest of world34.6%
- United States15.7%
- United Kingdom12.1%
- Switzerland8.1%
- China7%
- Norway3.7%
- India3.2%
- Türkiye2.5%
- everything else13.1%
hotels & restaurants (I). 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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