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EU Packaging Regulation (EU) 2025/40: Design, sustainability, labelling and market placement obligations; recyclability, reuse, recycled content and PFAS limits; key dates and compliance duties for manufacturers, importers and distributors

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Rapidly increasing packaging output, together with low rates of re-use, limited collection, and weak recycling, creates major obstacles to achieving a low-carbon circular economy in the EU. Packaging consumes large quantities of virgin resources and makes up 36% of the EU’s municipal solid waste. The Commission reports that 40% of plastics and 50% of paper used within the EU goes into packaging.

On 11 March 2020, the Commission set out a new Circular Economy Action Plan. As a pillar of both the European Green Deal and the EU’s Industrial Strategy, the Plan unveiled actions to make sustainable products standard in the EU and to ensure less waste.

In line with these commitments, on 30 November 2022 the Commission tabled a proposal for a new regulation on packaging and packaging waste, to amend Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 (the Market Surveillance Regulation) and Directive (EU) 2019/904 (the Single Use Plastics Directive), and to repeal Directive 94/62/EC (the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive). The resulting Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on packaging and packaging waste (the EU Packaging Regulation) was published in the Official Journal on 22 January 2025. The Regulation took effect on 11...

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