Recital 95

(95) In some cases, the use of single-use transport packaging formats is not necessary, as there is a wide range of well-functioning reusable alternatives. In order to ensure that such alternatives are used in an effective manner, it is appropriate to require economic operators, when transporting products between different sites of the same economic operator or between the economic operator and linked or partner enterprises, to use only reusable transport packaging with respect to packaging formats such as pallets, foldable plastic boxes, plastic crates, intermediate bulk containers, both rigid and flexible, or drums. The same obligation should, for the same reasons, apply to economic operators transporting products within one Member State. For certain types of transport or sales packaging, reusable alternatives are not an option. This is the case for cardboard boxes, where the number of rotations is very low, and for packaging used for certain contact-sensitive products, which require special washing between uses. Therefore, such packaging should be exempted from the obligation to meet the re-use targets for transport packaging and sales packaging used for transporting products.

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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.