Recital 42

(42) There should be an incentive for economic operators to increase the recycled content in the plastic part of packaging. One way to achieve this is to ensure the modulation of extended producer responsibility fees based on the percentage of recycled content in packaging. The fee modulation in such cases should be based on common rules for the calculation and verification of the recycled content contained in such packaging. In that context, Member States should be allowed to maintain existing systems granting prior and fair access to recycled material in order to meet the minimum recycled content targets provided that they comply with this Regulation. Furthermore, priority access should be granted at market prices for the recycled materials and the quantity of recyclates to which priority access is given should correspond to the quantity of packaging made available on the territory of the Member State concerned by the economic operator within a specified timeframe.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-08-26 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.