Recital 49

(49) The methodology for assessing, verifying and certifying, including through third-party audit, the equivalence of the rules applied where recycled content recovered from post-consumer plastic waste is recycled or collected in a third country should ensure a high level of protection of environment and human health, in particular with regard to the level of emissions into the air, water and soil, taking into account the need to ensure that recycling is performed in an environmentally sound manner, the possibility to ensure high-quality recycling, the level of the quality standards for the recycling sector, and the level of resource efficiency. Such considerations are key to achieving circularity of resources, thereby putting less pressure on exhaustible natural resources. In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission to establish that methodology.

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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.