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Recital 85

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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

(85) In order to ensure a high level of environmental protection in the internal market as well as a high level of food safety and food hygiene and to facilitate the achievement of the packaging waste prevention targets, unnecessary or avoidable packaging should not be placed on the market. The list of such packaging formats is provided in this Regulation. The Commission should publish guidelines to explain that list in more detail, including by providing examples of the packaging and guidance on the exemptions to the restrictions.

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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.