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What does Entry into force mean? Entry into force describes the date on which a legal instrument starts to have legal effect, triggering obligations, rights and time limits. In UK and Irish practice, the parallel term coming into force is used for domestic Acts and statutory instruments: the operative date is set in the legislation or by a commencement order, and if none is given default rules bring it into force on the day of enactment. Entry into force is more commonly used for treaties and EU measures. For EU law, an act enters into force on the date it states; otherwise, on the twentieth day after...

EU Single‑Use Plastics Directive 2019/904: scope, product bans, consumption reduction, design and labelling, EPR (including fishing gear), collection targets, monitoring/reporting, penalties, and overlap with EU Packaging Regulation

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Key information EU Single Use Plastics Directive

Official title: Directive (EU) 2019/904 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on reducing the impact of certain plastic products on the environment
Commencement: 2 July 2019
Transposition deadlines: 3 July 2021, subject to:
- Member States must put in place measures to meet Article 6(1) (design requirements) from 3 July 2024
- Member States must put in place measures to meet Article 8 (extended Producer responsibility) by 31 December 2024. For extended producer responsibility schemes set up before 4 July 2018, and for single-use plastic products listed in section III of Part E of the Annex, Article 8 should have applied by 5 January 2023
National transposition: See Eur-Lex information on national transposition measures, as supplied by Member States
Subject: Waste, plastics, single-use plastics, marine pollution
Context: Single-use plastic items span a wide variety of commonly used fast-moving consumer products that are thrown away after a single intended use, are rarely recycled, and easily become litter. Single-use plastic products and fishing gear containing plastic...

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