PPWR vs Waste Framework Directive where packaging rules use WFD concepts
This comparison helps separate PPWR's packaging-specific obligations from the Waste Framework Directive concepts PPWR expressly relies on.
PPWR sets packaging-specific product and waste duties. The Waste Framework Directive supplies horizontal rules on waste status, the waste hierarchy, EPR schemes, separate collection, records, SCIP data, and waste plans.
Use PPWR for packaging design, market placement, labelling, conformity, packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR), return and collection systems, and packaging-waste targets. Use the Waste Framework Directive () for the horizontal waste-law rules underneath that work: when an object becomes waste, the waste hierarchy, by-product and end-of-waste conditions, minimum EPR scheme requirements, separate collection, records, information for the SCIP database on substances of very high concern in articles, and waste plans. PPWR expressly relies on several WFD provisions, but it does not turn the WFD into a second packaging conformity regulation.
Comparison matrix
PPWR vs Waste Framework Directive: packaging obligations and WFD foundations
Use the matrix to decide when a question belongs in the PPWR packaging workstream and when the answer depends on a concept that PPWR incorporates or references.
Regulation (EU) 2025/40 applies to all packaging placed on the EU market and all packaging waste. It sets packaging-specific duties for sustainability, labelling, EPR, collection, treatment, recycling, conformity evidence, and enforcement.
Second framework
Waste Framework Directive
Directive 2008/98/EC remains the horizontal waste framework that PPWR cites for the waste hierarchy, waste-related definitions, EPR scheme architecture, separate collection, electronic registries, and waste-management plans.
PPWR vs Waste Framework Directive: packaging obligations and WFD foundations
PPWR starts with packaging: all packaging, regardless of material, and all packaging waste from industry, manufacturing, retail, distribution, offices, services, or households.
Official PPWR text for all-packaging scope, life-cycle requirements, WFD references, conformity evidence, and penalties.
all packaging, regardless of the material used
applies horizontally to waste, subject to Article 2 exclusions. It defines waste as a substance or object the holder discards, intends to discard, or is required to discard, and separately sets conditions for by-products and end-of-waste status. Those status decisions depend on the facts and any applicable EU or national criteria.
Current consolidated WFD text for waste definitions, recovery concepts, by-product and end-of-waste conditions, and horizontal waste duties.
Directive 2008/98/EC
Classify the item under PPWR when the question is about packaging placed on the EU market or packaging waste. Use references to interpret waste concepts, not to replace the PPWR packaging analysis.
PPWR allocates duties to packaging economic operators, including manufacturers, suppliers, importers, distributors, producers, producer responsibility organisations, final distributors, and reuse or deposit-return system operators.
PPWR Chapters IV and VIII assign duties to economic operators and packaging EPR participants.
Economic operators should ensure that packaging complies
places many system duties on Member States and competent authorities, while waste holders, dealers, brokers, collectors, treatment operators, producers, and producer responsibility organisations can have operational duties under EU and national law. The WFD producer role and a PPWR producer role must be mapped from the applicable provision rather than assumed from ordinary commercial language.
PPWR Articles 44 to 47 build producer registration, EPR, PRO, and authorisation duties on WFD Articles 8 and 8a.
Articles 8 and 8a of Directive 2008/98/EC
Assign PPWR conformity and design work to product, packaging, quality, and regulatory owners. Assign -linked execution to the owners of EPR registration, producer responsibility organisation (PRO) management, collection data, recycling data, and national waste-plan evidence.
PPWR duties are triggered by packaging or packaged products being placed or made available on a Member State market, packaging being unpacked without the actor being an end user, or packaging becoming packaging waste.
PPWR Article 44 triggers producer registration when packaging or packaged products are made available for the first time in a Member State or unpacked by a non-end-user.
not make available packaging or packaged products
becomes relevant when an item meets the waste definition or when a duty invokes a horizontal waste rule. An unwanted package is not automatically waste merely because it is recyclable; the holder's act, intention, or legal duty to discard controls. By-product and end-of-waste claims need their own Article 5 or 6 conditions and any applicable criteria.
PPWR Article 3 imports the WFD definition of waste and states reusable packaging sent to reconditioning is not considered waste.
waste as defined in Article 3
Start with PPWR for the package and separately document when it becomes waste. Do not call production residue a by-product or recycled output an end-of-waste material without checking the conditions and national implementation.
PPWR core obligations cover packaging design, market placement, labelling, environmental claims, conformity assessment, EU declaration of conformity, EPR producer registration, annual packaging data reporting, PRO authorisation, and producer guarantees for all packaging placed on the EU market or unpacked without being an end user.
PPWR Articles 5 to 14 and Annex VII set packaging sustainability, labelling, environmental-claim, technical-documentation, and declaration-of-conformity evidence.
technical documentation shall specify the applicable requirements
Commission overview summarising PPWR measures on recyclability, recycled content, labelling, reuse, single-use format restrictions, and PFAS in food-contact packaging.
Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation
supplies the five-step waste hierarchy: prevention; preparing for reuse; recycling; other recovery, including energy recovery; and disposal. It also sets minimum EPR scheme requirements in Articles 8 and 8a, separate-collection rules, hazardous-waste controls, records and electronic registries, and waste-management and prevention planning.
Current consolidated WFD text for the horizontal EPR provisions in Articles 8 and 8a.
Directive 2008/98/EC
Use PPWR for packaging design approvals, conformity files, product release gates, and packaging claims. Check and national waste-law duties separately for the waste activities involved, even where PPWR does not expressly cite them.
PPWR evidence should include packaging classification, applicable Articles 5 to 12 requirements, supplier documentation, technical documentation, EU declaration of conformity, EPR registration details, annual packaging quantities, and collection or recycling data where relevant.
PPWR Article 15 and Annex VII require technical documentation and EU declaration of conformity for packaging.
EU declaration of conformity
evidence depends on the decision: waste-status and holder facts; by-product or end-of-waste rationale; waste classification and hazardous-property records; collection and treatment records; permits or registrations; EPR scheme allocation and cost data; separate-collection derogation analysis; or waste-plan evidence. Article 9(1)(i) also supports SCIP information duties for suppliers of articles containing Candidate List substances above 0.1% weight by weight.
PPWR Article 23 refers to annual packaging-waste information provided through the electronic registry or registries established under Article 35(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC, which supports the page's traceability note.
Article 35(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC
Keep the PPWR conformity and EPR file linked to waste-status decisions, permits, and collection or treatment records where they support the same operation. Identify the provision each record supports so an existing waste permit is not mistaken for packaging conformity evidence.
PPWR contains packaging-specific recycling targets and an Annex XI implementation-plan structure for Member States that seek time extensions for certain packaging recycling targets.
PPWR Annex XI sets the content of implementation plans for packaging recycling target time extensions.
Implementation plan to be submitted
duties run on different cadences: waste shipment or treatment records arise from operations, EPR and national reporting follow the applicable scheme, Member States evaluate waste-management plans at least every six years, and Article 37 reporting follows the Directive's reporting rules. PPWR Annex XI separately points to WFD Articles 28 and 29 when a Member State seeks an extension for specified packaging recycling targets.
PPWR Annex XI requires assessment of waste management plans and waste prevention programmes under WFD Articles 28 and 29.
Articles 28 and 29 of Directive 2008/98/EC
Keep operational waste records, national EPR reporting, planning cycles, and PPWR target dates in separate calendar fields. A PPWR application date does not reset an existing WFD duty.
PPWR has its own market-surveillance and penalty pathway. Member States must lay down penalties for PPWR infringements, and persistent non-compliance can include failures in documentation, recyclability, recycled content, and other PPWR requirements.
PPWR Articles 56, 62, and 68 support packaging reporting, formal non-compliance examples, and Member State penalty rules.
penalties applicable to infringements of this Regulation
is implemented and enforced through Member State law. Article 36 requires measures against abandonment, dumping, and uncontrolled waste management, and Member States set penalties. The competent authority, offence, remedy, and penalty therefore depend on the national implementation and the waste activity.
WFD consolidated-version source is included only for the horizontal waste concepts referenced by PPWR, not for unsupported WFD penalty claims.
Directive 2008/98/EC
Use PPWR for packaging non-compliance triage and authority-response evidence. Escalate -only enforcement questions to a separate WFD source review instead of inferring them from PPWR.
PPWR sets packaging-specific collection and recycling requirements, but the design and operation of separate collection systems, calculation methods, and registry support all reference concepts that PPWR expressly incorporates.
PPWR Articles 48 and 53 cover return and separate collection systems, recycling calculations, and quality-control and traceability systems for packaging waste.
return and separate collection of all packaging waste
provides the horizontal waste-law foundation for packaging-waste collection, treatment hierarchies, and registry infrastructure. A record may support both regimes if its contents answer each applicable requirement; identify the purpose and legal basis each time it is reused.
PPWR Article 53 allows quality-control and traceability systems to use electronic registries set up under WFD Article 35(1).
electronic registries set up pursuant to Article 35
Document the overlap as a crosswalk: each PPWR packaging-waste collection or recycling requirement should reference the concept it builds on so future reviewers can trace both the packaging-specific duty and its waste-law dependency.
Use PPWR when the question is about packaging design, market placement, labelling, reuse, recyclability, recycled content, EPR registration, producer reporting, return systems, collection, recycling calculations, conformity evidence, or PPWR penalties.
Official source for the PPWR packaging duty set and the regulation's express WFD references.
requirements for the entire life-cycle of packaging
Use for waste status, by-product and end-of-waste decisions, the waste hierarchy, horizontal EPR scheme rules, separate collection, waste permits and records, SCIP information duties, electronic registries, and waste-management and prevention plans.
Current consolidated WFD text for the horizontal waste concepts used by PPWR.
Directive 2008/98/EC
Use a three-part crosswalk: the PPWR packaging duty, the concept or national waste-law dependency, and the evidence owner. Add the Member State implementing rule whenever the WFD leaves operational detail to national law.
PPWR text supports a narrow comparison because it expressly points to WFD provisions for specific waste-law dependencies.
Article 4 of Directive 2008/98/EC
Scope and covered activity
PPWR
PPWR starts with packaging: all packaging, regardless of material, and all packaging waste from industry, manufacturing, retail, distribution, offices, services, or households.
Official PPWR text for all-packaging scope, life-cycle requirements, WFD references, conformity evidence, and penalties.
all packaging, regardless of the material used
Waste Framework Directive
applies horizontally to waste, subject to Article 2 exclusions. It defines waste as a substance or object the holder discards, intends to discard, or is required to discard, and separately sets conditions for by-products and end-of-waste status. Those status decisions depend on the facts and any applicable EU or national criteria.
Current consolidated WFD text for waste definitions, recovery concepts, by-product and end-of-waste conditions, and horizontal waste duties.
Directive 2008/98/EC
Operational implication
Classify the item under PPWR when the question is about packaging placed on the EU market or packaging waste. Use references to interpret waste concepts, not to replace the PPWR packaging analysis.
Current consolidated WFD text for definitions that PPWR imports or references.
Directive 2008/98/EC
Who must act
PPWR
PPWR allocates duties to packaging economic operators, including manufacturers, suppliers, importers, distributors, producers, producer responsibility organisations, final distributors, and reuse or deposit-return system operators.
PPWR Chapters IV and VIII assign duties to economic operators and packaging EPR participants.
Economic operators should ensure that packaging complies
Waste Framework Directive
places many system duties on Member States and competent authorities, while waste holders, dealers, brokers, collectors, treatment operators, producers, and producer responsibility organisations can have operational duties under EU and national law. The WFD producer role and a PPWR producer role must be mapped from the applicable provision rather than assumed from ordinary commercial language.
PPWR Articles 44 to 47 build producer registration, EPR, PRO, and authorisation duties on WFD Articles 8 and 8a.
Articles 8 and 8a of Directive 2008/98/EC
Operational implication
Assign PPWR conformity and design work to product, packaging, quality, and regulatory owners. Assign -linked execution to the owners of EPR registration, producer responsibility organisation (PRO) management, collection data, recycling data, and national waste-plan evidence.
PPWR Annex IX lists producer and PRO registration and reporting information for packaging EPR systems.
Information for registration and reporting
Trigger or threshold
PPWR
PPWR duties are triggered by packaging or packaged products being placed or made available on a Member State market, packaging being unpacked without the actor being an end user, or packaging becoming packaging waste.
PPWR Article 44 triggers producer registration when packaging or packaged products are made available for the first time in a Member State or unpacked by a non-end-user.
not make available packaging or packaged products
Waste Framework Directive
becomes relevant when an item meets the waste definition or when a duty invokes a horizontal waste rule. An unwanted package is not automatically waste merely because it is recyclable; the holder's act, intention, or legal duty to discard controls. By-product and end-of-waste claims need their own Article 5 or 6 conditions and any applicable criteria.
PPWR Article 3 imports the WFD definition of waste and states reusable packaging sent to reconditioning is not considered waste.
waste as defined in Article 3
Operational implication
Start with PPWR for the package and separately document when it becomes waste. Do not call production residue a by-product or recycled output an end-of-waste material without checking the conditions and national implementation.
PPWR Article 2 applies without prejudice to WFD hazardous-waste-management provisions.
management of hazardous waste
Core obligations
PPWR
PPWR core obligations cover packaging design, market placement, labelling, environmental claims, conformity assessment, EU declaration of conformity, EPR producer registration, annual packaging data reporting, PRO authorisation, and producer guarantees for all packaging placed on the EU market or unpacked without being an end user.
PPWR Articles 5 to 14 and Annex VII set packaging sustainability, labelling, environmental-claim, technical-documentation, and declaration-of-conformity evidence.
technical documentation shall specify the applicable requirements
Commission overview summarising PPWR measures on recyclability, recycled content, labelling, reuse, single-use format restrictions, and PFAS in food-contact packaging.
Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation
Waste Framework Directive
supplies the five-step waste hierarchy: prevention; preparing for reuse; recycling; other recovery, including energy recovery; and disposal. It also sets minimum EPR scheme requirements in Articles 8 and 8a, separate-collection rules, hazardous-waste controls, records and electronic registries, and waste-management and prevention planning.
Current consolidated WFD text for the horizontal EPR provisions in Articles 8 and 8a.
Directive 2008/98/EC
Operational implication
Use PPWR for packaging design approvals, conformity files, product release gates, and packaging claims. Check and national waste-law duties separately for the waste activities involved, even where PPWR does not expressly cite them.
PPWR Article 15 requires manufacturers to carry out conformity assessment and keep technical documentation and declarations of conformity.
manufacturers shall carry out the conformity assessment
Evidence and records
PPWR
PPWR evidence should include packaging classification, applicable Articles 5 to 12 requirements, supplier documentation, technical documentation, EU declaration of conformity, EPR registration details, annual packaging quantities, and collection or recycling data where relevant.
PPWR Article 15 and Annex VII require technical documentation and EU declaration of conformity for packaging.
EU declaration of conformity
Waste Framework Directive
evidence depends on the decision: waste-status and holder facts; by-product or end-of-waste rationale; waste classification and hazardous-property records; collection and treatment records; permits or registrations; EPR scheme allocation and cost data; separate-collection derogation analysis; or waste-plan evidence. Article 9(1)(i) also supports SCIP information duties for suppliers of articles containing Candidate List substances above 0.1% weight by weight.
PPWR Article 23 refers to annual packaging-waste information provided through the electronic registry or registries established under Article 35(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC, which supports the page's traceability note.
Article 35(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC
Operational implication
Keep the PPWR conformity and EPR file linked to waste-status decisions, permits, and collection or treatment records where they support the same operation. Identify the provision each record supports so an existing waste permit is not mistaken for packaging conformity evidence.
PPWR Annex IX gives concrete EPR registration and reporting data fields for producers and PROs.
the information provided is true
Timing and cadence
PPWR
PPWR contains packaging-specific recycling targets and an Annex XI implementation-plan structure for Member States that seek time extensions for certain packaging recycling targets.
PPWR Annex XI sets the content of implementation plans for packaging recycling target time extensions.
Implementation plan to be submitted
Waste Framework Directive
duties run on different cadences: waste shipment or treatment records arise from operations, EPR and national reporting follow the applicable scheme, Member States evaluate waste-management plans at least every six years, and Article 37 reporting follows the Directive's reporting rules. PPWR Annex XI separately points to WFD Articles 28 and 29 when a Member State seeks an extension for specified packaging recycling targets.
PPWR Annex XI requires assessment of waste management plans and waste prevention programmes under WFD Articles 28 and 29.
Articles 28 and 29 of Directive 2008/98/EC
Operational implication
Keep operational waste records, national EPR reporting, planning cycles, and PPWR target dates in separate calendar fields. A PPWR application date does not reset an existing WFD duty.
PPWR Annex XI also links extension measures to economic instruments and incentives for applying the WFD waste hierarchy.
incentives for the application of the waste hierarchy
Enforcement and non-compliance
PPWR
PPWR has its own market-surveillance and penalty pathway. Member States must lay down penalties for PPWR infringements, and persistent non-compliance can include failures in documentation, recyclability, recycled content, and other PPWR requirements.
PPWR Articles 56, 62, and 68 support packaging reporting, formal non-compliance examples, and Member State penalty rules.
penalties applicable to infringements of this Regulation
Waste Framework Directive
is implemented and enforced through Member State law. Article 36 requires measures against abandonment, dumping, and uncontrolled waste management, and Member States set penalties. The competent authority, offence, remedy, and penalty therefore depend on the national implementation and the waste activity.
WFD consolidated-version source is included only for the horizontal waste concepts referenced by PPWR, not for unsupported WFD penalty claims.
Directive 2008/98/EC
Operational implication
Use PPWR for packaging non-compliance triage and authority-response evidence. Escalate -only enforcement questions to a separate WFD source review instead of inferring them from PPWR.
PPWR Article 68 requires Member State penalties for PPWR infringements to be effective, proportionate, and dissuasive.
effective, proportionate and dissuasive
Overlap and reuse
PPWR
PPWR sets packaging-specific collection and recycling requirements, but the design and operation of separate collection systems, calculation methods, and registry support all reference concepts that PPWR expressly incorporates.
PPWR Articles 48 and 53 cover return and separate collection systems, recycling calculations, and quality-control and traceability systems for packaging waste.
return and separate collection of all packaging waste
Waste Framework Directive
provides the horizontal waste-law foundation for packaging-waste collection, treatment hierarchies, and registry infrastructure. A record may support both regimes if its contents answer each applicable requirement; identify the purpose and legal basis each time it is reused.
PPWR Article 53 allows quality-control and traceability systems to use electronic registries set up under WFD Article 35(1).
electronic registries set up pursuant to Article 35
Operational implication
Document the overlap as a crosswalk: each PPWR packaging-waste collection or recycling requirement should reference the concept it builds on so future reviewers can trace both the packaging-specific duty and its waste-law dependency.
PPWR Annex XII requires packaging generated, separately collected, recycled, recovered, and disposed quantities by packaging material or type.
Quantity of separately collected packaging waste
Practical decision rule
PPWR
Use PPWR when the question is about packaging design, market placement, labelling, reuse, recyclability, recycled content, EPR registration, producer reporting, return systems, collection, recycling calculations, conformity evidence, or PPWR penalties.
Official source for the PPWR packaging duty set and the regulation's express WFD references.
requirements for the entire life-cycle of packaging
Waste Framework Directive
Use for waste status, by-product and end-of-waste decisions, the waste hierarchy, horizontal EPR scheme rules, separate collection, waste permits and records, SCIP information duties, electronic registries, and waste-management and prevention plans.
Current consolidated WFD text for the horizontal waste concepts used by PPWR.
Directive 2008/98/EC
Operational implication
Use a three-part crosswalk: the PPWR packaging duty, the concept or national waste-law dependency, and the evidence owner. Add the Member State implementing rule whenever the WFD leaves operational detail to national law.
Current consolidated WFD text for horizontal waste definitions and waste-management concepts.
Directive 2008/98/EC
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When should teams use this PPWR vs Waste Framework Directive comparison?
Use this comparison when packaging, EPR, collection, or recycling work mixes PPWR obligations with terminology. WFD provides horizontal waste-law concepts and duties; it is not a second packaging conformity checklist.
Classify the packaging and PPWR duty first, then identify the concept used by that duty. When the WFD rule depends on national implementation, add the Member State provision and competent authority before assigning an operational requirement.
Use PPWR for packaging design, market placement, labelling, environmental claims, conformity files, EPR registration, annual packaging data, and PPWR penalty exposure.
Use references for waste hierarchy, waste status, EPR scheme basis, separate collection, electronic registries, recycling calculation dependencies, and waste-plan assessments where PPWR points to them.
Keep one crosswalk row per claim: PPWR provision, dependency if any, source URL, evidence owner, and the public wording the evidence supports.
Commission overview for the public-facing PPWR measure set, including all-packaging scope, recyclability, recycled content, labelling, reuse and refill, and single-use restrictions.
The new Regulation will apply to all packaging and packaging waste
Current consolidated WFD text for horizontal waste-law concepts referenced by PPWR.
Directive 2008/98/EC
Recommended next step
Map PPWR duties to WFD dependencies
Use Sorena to build a packaging evidence crosswalk that ties each PPWR duty to the exact WFD concept it relies on, without merging separate legal workstreams.
Official PPWR text used for packaging scope, sustainability requirements, labelling, conformity evidence, EPR, collection, recycling, traceability, penalties, and express WFD references.
Official PPWR text for packaging-specific obligations and express references to Directive 2008/98/EC.
Official PPWR text for all-packaging scope, life-cycle requirements, WFD references, conformity evidence, and penalties.
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PPWR Article 2 applies to packaging and packaging waste while preserving WFD rules on hazardous-waste management.
PPWR Chapters IV and VIII assign duties to economic operators and packaging EPR participants.
PPWR Articles 44 to 47 build producer registration, EPR, PRO, and authorisation duties on WFD Articles 8 and 8a.
PPWR Annex IX lists producer and PRO registration and reporting information for packaging EPR systems.
PPWR Article 44 triggers producer registration when packaging or packaged products are made available for the first time in a Member State or unpacked by a non-end-user.
PPWR Article 3 imports the WFD definition of waste and states reusable packaging sent to reconditioning is not considered waste.
PPWR Article 2 applies without prejudice to WFD hazardous-waste-management provisions.
PPWR Articles 5 to 14 and Annex VII set packaging sustainability, labelling, environmental-claim, technical-documentation, and declaration-of-conformity evidence.
PPWR Article 45 states packaging EPR is under schemes established in accordance with WFD Articles 8 and 8a.
PPWR Article 15 requires manufacturers to carry out conformity assessment and keep technical documentation and declarations of conformity.
PPWR Article 15 and Annex VII require technical documentation and EU declaration of conformity for packaging.
PPWR Article 23 refers to annual packaging-waste information provided through the electronic registry or registries established under Article 35(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC, which supports the page's traceability note.
PPWR Annex IX gives concrete EPR registration and reporting data fields for producers and PROs.
PPWR Annex XI sets the content of implementation plans for packaging recycling target time extensions.
PPWR Annex XI requires assessment of waste management plans and waste prevention programmes under WFD Articles 28 and 29.
PPWR Annex XI also links extension measures to economic instruments and incentives for applying the WFD waste hierarchy.
PPWR Articles 56, 62, and 68 support packaging reporting, formal non-compliance examples, and Member State penalty rules.
PPWR Article 68 requires Member State penalties for PPWR infringements to be effective, proportionate, and dissuasive.
PPWR Articles 48 and 53 cover return and separate collection systems, recycling calculations, and quality-control and traceability systems for packaging waste.
PPWR Article 53 allows quality-control and traceability systems to use electronic registries set up under WFD Article 35(1).
PPWR Annex XII requires packaging generated, separately collected, recycled, recovered, and disposed quantities by packaging material or type.
Official source for the PPWR packaging duty set and the regulation's express WFD references.
PPWR text supports a narrow comparison because it expressly points to WFD provisions for specific waste-law dependencies.
Official PPWR text supports the page's packaging-specific side and the narrow list of WFD concepts PPWR expressly references.
"requirements for the entire life-cycle of packaging"
More quoted passages
"rules covering the entire life-cycle of packaging"
"all packaging, regardless of the material used"
"all packaging waste"
"Economic operators should ensure that packaging complies"
"Articles 8 and 8a of Directive 2008/98/EC"
"Information for registration and reporting"
"not make available packaging or packaged products"
"waste as defined in Article 3"
"management of hazardous waste"
"technical documentation shall specify the applicable requirements"
"in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a"
"manufacturers shall carry out the conformity assessment"
"EU declaration of conformity"
"Article 35(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC"
"the information provided is true"
"Implementation plan to be submitted"
"Articles 28 and 29 of Directive 2008/98/EC"
"incentives for the application of the waste hierarchy"
"penalties applicable to infringements of this Regulation"
"effective, proportionate and dissuasive"
"return and separate collection of all packaging waste"
"electronic registries set up pursuant to Article 35"
"Quantity of separately collected packaging waste"
Current consolidated WFD text used for waste status, hierarchy, EPR, separate collection, records, SCIP information, electronic registries, and waste planning.
Current consolidated WFD text for horizontal waste-law concepts referenced by PPWR.
Current consolidated WFD text for waste definitions, recovery concepts, by-product and end-of-waste conditions, and horizontal waste duties.
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Current consolidated WFD text for definitions that PPWR imports or references.
Current consolidated WFD text for the horizontal EPR provisions in Articles 8 and 8a.
WFD consolidated-version source is included only for the horizontal waste concepts referenced by PPWR, not for unsupported WFD penalty claims.
Current consolidated WFD text for the horizontal waste concepts used by PPWR.
Current consolidated WFD text for horizontal waste definitions and waste-management concepts.
Commission overview used for visitor-facing summaries of PPWR measure categories and all-packaging scope.
Commission overview for the public-facing PPWR measure set, including all-packaging scope, recyclability, recycled content, labelling, reuse and refill, and single-use restrictions.
Commission overview summarising PPWR measures on recyclability, recycled content, labelling, reuse, single-use format restrictions, and PFAS in food-contact packaging.
"The new Regulation will apply to all packaging and packaging waste"