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Article 57 — Packaging databases

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REGULATION (EU) 2025/40 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 19 December 2024 on packaging and packaging waste, amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and Directive (EU) 2019/904, and repealing Directive 94/62/EC (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

1. By 12 months from the date of adoption of the implementing acts referred to in Article 56(7), Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that databases on packaging and packaging waste are established, where not already in place, on a harmonised basis, for the purpose of fulfilling their reporting obligations laid down in Article 56. 2. The databases referred to in paragraph 1 shall include the following: (a) information on the magnitude, characteristics and evolution of the packaging and packaging waste flows at the level of individual Member States; (b) the data listed in Annex XII. 3. The packaging databases shall be accessible to the wider public in a machine-readable format that allows access to up-to-date data regarding reporting and cost of packaging waste management and that ensures interoperability and the re-use of data. They shall be provided in the official language or languages of the Member State concerned by means of: (a) a website or other means of electronic communication; or (b) public reports. The requirements referred to in the first subparagraph shall be without prejudice to commercially sensitive information or data protection laws.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-08-26