Resources
Practical, plain-language articles on EU packaging (PPWR), Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), GPSR and chemicals compliance. Everything here is general information, not legal advice.
The HSE added new substances of very high concern to the UK REACH candidate list in June 2026. Articles containing a listed SVHC above 0.1% w/w trigger supply-…
UK REACH — HSE candidate list (June 2026 update)
Regulation (EU) 2026/1168 tightens the REACH restriction on intentionally added microplastics: polymer coatings and film-forming packaging additives are now cl…
Regulation (EU) 2026/1168 amending REACH Annex XVII entry 78
The UK's packaging EPR (pEPR) makes larger producers pay the full cost of managing household packaging waste, based on packaging data they must report, with fe…
Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024
Selling on Amazon in the EU does not transfer packaging compliance to Amazon. Sellers still need EPR registration numbers per country, valid packaging data, an…
Regulation (EU) 2025/40; national EPR laws
Many EU countries require a business without a local establishment to appoint a locally-established authorised representative to carry its packaging EPR regist…
National EPR laws / Directive 2008/98/EC
Austria requires producers to register in the EDM register, license packaging with an authorised dual system such as ARA, and — for foreign distance sellers — …
Verpackungsverordnung / AWG
Dutch producers report and pay the packaging waste-management contribution to Afvalfonds Verpakkingen, with a weight threshold below which no fee is due (but r…
Besluit beheer verpakkingen
Spain's Royal Decree 1055/2022 requires producers to enrol in the RAP producer register and join a scheme such as Ecoembes (or Ecovidrio for glass), covering h…
Real Decreto 1055/2022
Italy channels packaging EPR through CONAI: producers join the consortium, pay the CAC environmental contribution by material, and apply mandatory environmenta…
D.Lgs. 152/2006; D.Lgs. 116/2020
France requires an ADEME unique identifier (IDU), membership of an approved eco-organisation such as Citeo, annual declarations, and the Triman + Info-tri sort…
Code de l'environnement / Loi AGEC (2020-105)
EPR makes the producer that places packaging on a market financially (and often organisationally) responsible for its end-of-life collection and recycling — pa…
Directive 2008/98/EC (Waste Framework Directive)
The PPWR introduces harmonised EU labels showing material composition to help consumers sort packaging correctly, replacing today's patchwork of national symbo…
Regulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 12
From 2030 nearly all packaging on the EU market must be recyclable, graded by design-for-recycling performance, with grades tied to EPR fee modulation.
Regulation (EU) 2025/40
The PPWR sets minimum post-consumer recycled-content targets for plastic packaging that phase in from 2030 and rise again by 2040, varying by packaging type.
Regulation (EU) 2025/40
The PPWR classifies packaging into three levels — primary (sales), secondary (grouped) and tertiary (transport). Knowing which is which decides who reports wha…
Regulation (EU) 2025/40
The PPWR (Regulation (EU) 2025/40) replaces the old Packaging Directive with directly-applicable, EU-wide rules on recyclability, recycled content, packaging m…
Regulation (EU) 2025/40
Most PPWR compliance failures start before the purchase order — when an importer orders without asking the factory how goods will be packed. A structured, pena…
Regulation (EU) 2025/40
Anyone placing packaging on the German market must register in the LUCID packaging register (run by the ZSVR) and license their packaging with a dual system be…
Verpackungsgesetz (VerpackG)
How PPWR duties map onto the three packaging levels — box (primary/secondary) and pallet (tertiary) — including recyclability, recycled content and the empty-s…
Regulation (EU) 2025/40
