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Tag: EU packaging rules

  • Durability of reusable packaging

    A lack of legal guidelines and harmonised standards for reusable packaging has created a fragmented landscape. Systems are not interoperable and businesses are left grappling with uncertainty and struggling to compete with single-use alternatives. Minimum durability requirements and European harmonised standards for testing, measurements, and calculations would ensure that the EU's new packaging rules are robust, effective, and truly transformative.

  • Analysis – EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR)

    Rules governing the EU packaging sector will become more harmonised, but the regulation leaves a lot of room for Member States to grant derogations, (or not), and to adopt measures going further than the regulation. How national governments use this room for manoeuvre will determine if a reduction in packaging waste is achieved. Learn more in our analysis.

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