PPWR - Overview of Key Obligations by Article
Overview of key PPWR obligations by article. Individual milestones are displayed as obligations by year and colour-coded by type of responsibility.
- Economic operator obligation
- Member State obligation
- Commission obligation
Requirements for Substances in Packaging
The sum of concentrations of Pb, Cd, Hg and CrVI shall not exceed 100 mg/kg.
The presence of substances of concern in packaging shall be minimised.
PFAS will be prohibited in food-contact packaging.
The Commission will prepare a report on the presence of substances of concern in packaging.
The Commission will assess the need to amend the PFAS restriction.
The Commission will evaluate whether requirements for substances of concern in packaging materials are sufficient.
Recyclable Packaging
Assessment of recyclability under standard EN 13430:2004 until the relevant act is issued.
The Commission will adopt design-for-recycling criteria, performance grades and rules for assessing recyclability.
Eco-modulation of EPR fees based on design for recycling and recyclability performance grades.
Packaging must be recyclable and achieve performance grade A, B or C.
The Commission will adopt the methodology for assessing recycling at scale.
Eco-modulation of EPR fees based on large-scale recycling criteria.
Recyclability will be assessed based on actual recycling at scale.
Packaging must be recyclable only in performance grade A or B.
Minimum Recycled Content in Plastic Packaging
The Commission will adopt a methodology for calculating and verifying recycled content.
The Commission will adopt rules for verifying the equivalence of recycled content rules from third countries.
The Commission will assess the need for exemptions from recycled content requirements.
Calculation and verification of the percentage of recycled content under the implementing act.
The Commission will review achievement of recycled content targets and propose changes to the 2040 targets.
Increase of minimum recycled content in plastic packaging.
Bio-based Feedstock in Plastic Packaging
The Commission will review technological developments in bio-based plastics and their possible use instead of recycled content.
Compostable Packaging
The Commission will request standardisation organisations to update harmonised standards.
Mandatory industrially compostable packaging for tea and coffee bags, capsules, and labels attached to fruit and vegetables.
Other packaging, including packaging made from biodegradable plastics, must be designed for material recycling.
Packaging Minimisation
The Commission will request standardisation organisations to prepare a methodology for calculating packaging minimisation.
The Commission will adopt a methodology for calculating the empty space ratio.
Consumer packaging must have empty space reduced to the minimum necessary.
Packaging minimisation - the necessary minimum.
Grouped, transport and e-commerce packaging: empty space ratio of no more than 50%.
The Commission will review the empty space ratio, exemptions, and possible ratios for consumer packaging.
Reusable Packaging
Conditions under which packaging is considered reusable packaging.
The Commission will adopt and publish rules, guidance and methodologies for the most commonly used reusable packaging formats.
The Commission will adopt conditions and reporting requirements for pooling arrangements.
Reuse targets - first stage.
Submission of a report on the achievement of targets for the first reporting year 2030 and every year thereafter.
Reuse targets - second stage.
Refill, HORECA and Distributors
Final distributors in the HORECA sector will allow customers to bring their own container for filling.
HORECA: option to use a reusable container for beverages and ready-prepared food consumed away from the point of sale.
Final distributors with a sales area over 400 m2 will allocate 10% of sales area to refill stations.
Submission of a report on the achievement of reusable packaging targets.
Packaging Labelling
The Commission will adopt harmonised packaging labelling and a methodology for determining material composition.
Voluntary labelling of packaging covered by EPR using a QR code or another digital marking.
Mandatory harmonised labelling of material composition on packaging.
Voluntary labelling of recycled content must comply with the implementing act and methodology.
Labelling of reusable packaging only in systems with an operator.
The Commission will adopt a methodology for identifying substances of concern.
Labelling of substances of concern under the implementing act.
Packaging Restrictions and Waste Reduction Targets
The Commission will publish guidance further specifying the prohibition of certain plastic packaging formats.
The Commission will adopt a methodology for calculating packaging waste generation.
Ban on selected single-use plastic packaging formats listed in Annex V.
Member States will reduce packaging waste generated per capita by 5% compared with 2018.
The Commission will assess the impact of packaging restrictions, the availability of alternatives, and the retention of exemptions.
Member States will reduce packaging waste generated per capita by 10% compared with 2018.
Register, Record-keeping and Reporting
The Commission will adopt the format for registration in the register and reporting by packaging type and material category.
The Commission will adopt methodologies for packaging databases, annual consumption calculations and correction factors.
Member States will adopt measures related to packaging databases.
Expected start of new record-keeping requirements.
Green Public Procurement
The Commission will adopt minimum requirements for public contracts for packaging and packaged products.
Public contracts according to the procedures set out in the implementing act.
SUP Directive
Ban on placing selected containers, films, void-fill material and plastic rings used as grouped packaging on the market.
Update of National Legislation
Member States will lay down rules and penalties in national legislation and notify them to the Commission.
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