PPWR
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Authorised representative [PPWR definition]
In Dutch context: A natural or legal person established in the Union that has received a written mandate from the manufacturer to act on its behalf in relation to specified tasks regarding the manufac ...
Authorised representative for the extended producer responsibility [PPWR defintion]
In Dutch context: A natural or legal person established in the Member State where the producer makes packaging available for the first time, appointed by a non-domestic producer to fulfil its extended ...
Biobased plastics [PPWR definition]
Biobased plastics are made from biological resources, such as biomass feedstock, organic waste or by-products, and irrespective of whether the plastics are biodegradable or non-biodegradable. Examples ...
Composite packaging [PPWR definition]
Composite packaging is a unit of packaging made of two or more different materials that cannot be separated manually and therefore form a single integral unit, unless one of the materials constitutes ...
Compostable packaging [PPWR definition]
Packaging that biodegrades or undergoes biological decomposition under industrially controlled conditions, including anaerobic digestion (but not necessarily home-compostable), if necessary in combina ...
Conformity assessment [PPWR definition]
The process demonstrating whether the sustainability, safety, labelling and information requirements of this Regulation relating to packaging have been fulfilled. This process is documented in the tec ...
Constituent [PPWR definition]
Constituents are parts of a packaging, with or without a function, that are too small to be defined as a separate material type and must therefore be assigned to one of the other material types.Exampl ...
Consumer [PPWR definition]
The end user is a person who uses a product for themselves.
Design for recyling guidelines [PPWR definition]
The design of packaging, including individual components of packaging, that ensures the recyclability of the packaging with established collection, sorting and recycling processes proven in an operati ...
Distributor [PPWR definition]
The economic operator in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or importer, that makes packaging available on the market (obtained from within the EU).
E-commerce Packaging [PPWR definition]
Transport packaging used to deliver products in the context of sale online or through other means of distance sales to the end user.Examples: Box, polybag
Economic operator [PPWR definition]
The manufacturer, supplier, importer, distributor, authorised representative, final distributor and fulfilment service provider.
End user [PPWR definition]
The person who uses a product and does not resell it in the same form. This therefore includes both business/professional persons and consumers.
Final distributor [PPWR definition]
The distributor in the supply chain that delivers packaged products to the end user.
Fulfilment service provider [PPWR definition]
Any natural or legal person offering, in the course of commercial activity, at least two of the following services: warehousing, packaging, addressing and dispatching, without having ownership of the ...
Grouped packaging [PPWR definition]
Packaging conceived so as to constitute a grouping of a certain number of sales units at the point of sale, irrespective of whether that grouping of sales units is sold as such to the end user or whet ...
Importer [PPWR definition]
A company established within the European Union that places packaging on the market from a country outside the European Union.
Manufacturer [PPWR definition]
The economic operator that manufactures packaging or a packaged product, or has it designed or manufactured under its own name or trademark. Exception: micro-enterprise (< € 10 employees, turnover ...
Packaging [PPWR definition]
Definition of Packaging PPWR (effective from 12 August 2026)An item intended to be used by an economic operator for the containment, protection, handling, delivery or presentation of products to anoth ...
Packaging and packaging waste Regulation [PPWR definition]
Packaging and packaging waste Regulation EU2025/40The PPWR is the new European regulation on packaging and packaging waste. It replaces the PPWD in phases. Unlike a directive, a regulation applies dir ...
Packaging category [PPWR definition]
A combination of material and specific packaging design which determines recyclability by reference to established state-of-the-art collection, sorting and recycling processes proven in an operational ...
Packaging waste [PPWR definition]
Any packaging or packaging material that is waste, with the exception of production residues.
Plastic [PPWR definition]
Plastic is a material consisting of a polymer (a long chain of molecules). Additional substances, such as colorants or additives, may be added to this polymer. The material can be an important structu ...
Primary production packaging [PPWR definition]
This refers to packaging for products straight from primary production (such as agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing or hunting) before any further processing or preparation (e.g., before slaughteri ...
Producer [PPWR definition]
In Dutch context: The manufacturer, importer or distributor who, irrespective of the selling technique used (including distance contracts), makes available for the first time from within the territory ...
Recyclability [PPWR definition]
The compatibility of packaging with the management and processing of waste by design, based on separate collection, sorting in separate streams, recycling at scale and the use of recycled materials to ...
Recyclability grades [PPWR definition]
Packaging recyclability is expressed in the performance grades A, B or C as described in Table 3 of Annex II. Packaging unit's recyclability is classified based on these grades; a grade below 70% (Gra ...
Recycling [PPWR definition]
Any recovery operation by which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials or substances whether for the original or other purposes. It includes the reprocessing of organic material but ...
Register of producers [PPWR definition]
A national register established by each Member State which serves to monitor the compliance of producers with their obligations regarding the management of packaging and packaging wasteProducers are o ...
Reusable packaging [PPWR definition]
A reusable packaging is packaging that complies with Article 11(1) of the PPWR, including designs to be placed on the market multiple times for the same purpose for which it was intended.Examples: A r ...
Sales packaging [PPWR definition]
Packaging conceived so as to constitute a sales unit consisting of products and packaging to the end user at the point of sale.Examples: Jam jar, shampoo bottle, beverage bottle, cornflake box, salad ...
Secondary raw materials [PPWR definition]
Secondary raw materials are materials that have been recovered from waste through recycling. The materials have undergone all necessary checking and sorting and been obtained through recycling process ...
Service Packaging [PPWR definition]
An item that is designed and intended to be filled at the point of sale in order to dispense the product.Examples: Meat tray, bread bag, cheese bags/film, carrier bags, drinking cup, ice cream contain ...
Single use packaging [PPWR definition]
Packaging which is not reusable packaging.
Supplier [PPWR definition]
The economic operator that supplies packaging material or packaging (commissioned, filled or unfilled) to a manufacturer.
Take-away Packaging [PPWR definition]
Service packaging filled at attended points of sale with beverages or ready-prepared food that are packaged for transportation and immediate consumption at another location without the need for any fu ...
Transport packaging [PPWR definition]
Packaging conceived so as to facilitate the handling and transport of one or more sales units or a grouping of sales units, in order to prevent damage to the product from handling and transport, but w ...
Unit of packaging [PPWR definition]
A unit, including any integrated or separate components, which as a whole serves a packaging function, such as the containment, protection, handling, delivery, storage, transport or presentation of pr ...