PPWR – Important clarifications regarding re-use targets for plastic pallet wrappings

Last Wednesday, November 27th, the European Parliament approved the revised text of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). It means that the legislative process for the new regulation is soon finalised. What remains is the approval by the Council and then publication in the EU Official Journal by the European Commission.

Clarification regarding re-use targets
Since the European Parliament in April approved the provisional agreement made with the Council, the text has been on a legal and linguistic revision.

One important change in the revision concerns the general obligations for re-use of transport packaging in Article 29 paragraph 1. It has now been clarified that the requirement applies in total and not for each of the listed packaging formats. The obligation on economic operators using transport packaging, or sales packaging used for transportation is that at least 40% in total of the listed packaging types must be reusable within a re-use system from 1 January 2030,.

Exceptions for plastic pallet wrappings
In the provisional agreement between the European Parliament and the Council there were some very unexpected changes late in the negotiations, leading to the inclusion of pallet wrappings, and other packaging formats, in the 100% re-use targets between different sites of an operator or between two economic operators within the same Member State.
more at: https://www.trioworld.com/news-insights/re-thinking-plastic-blog/ppwr-adopted/

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