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Packaging compliance under PERR 2015: essential requirements, heavy metal limits, enforcement, and links to Extended Producer Responsibility and Plastic Packaging Tax, plus EU Packaging Regulation developments

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The Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2015 (PERR 2015)

PERR 2015 sets the rules for compliant packaging product design across England and Wales in practice. They oblige producers to create packaging that is minimised, recyclable and within specified substance thresholds. These duties sit alongside the extended producer responsibility (EPR) regime in England and Wales, which applies at a later stage in the packaging lifecycle and makes producers account for the environmental impacts of packaging waste and pay for its collection and management. Because EPR fees are modulated by recyclability, the PERR 2015 push to use recyclable, minimal packaging has a direct and measurable influence on those fees and charges. For further detail on EPR for packaging and packaging waste, see Practice Note: Packaging and packaging waste—extended producer responsibility regime, which provides additional information. In practical terms, the plastic packaging tax, introduced in April 2022 and charged on plastic packaging with <30% recycled content, will also shape how packaging is composed, the level of recycled material used, and how such items are ultimately placed on the market. For more on the plastic packaging tax, see Practice Note: Plastic packaging tax. PERR 2015 originally gave effect to the European Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste...

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