Article 51 on re-use and refill states:

(1) ‘Member States shall take measures to encourage the establishment of re-use systems for packaging with sufficient incentives for return and of refill systems in an environmentally sound manner. Those systems shall comply with the requirements laid down in Articles 27 and 28 and Annex VI and shall not compromise food hygiene or the safety of consumers. (2) The measures referred to in paragraph 1 may include: (…) obligations on manufacturers or final distributors to make available in reusable packaging within a re-use system or through refill a certain percentage of products other than those covered by the re-use targets laid down in Article 29, on condition that that does not lead to distortions on the internal market or trade barriers for products from other Member States.’ Article 33(6), which is related to the re-use offer obligation in the take-away sector, refers to Article 51 as regards the conditions pursuant to which a Member State may set targets that go beyond the minimum 2030 indicative target of 10 % laid down in Article 33(5) PPWR for take-away packaging ‘to the extent that higher targets are necessary for the Member State to achieve one or more of the targets set out in Article 43.’

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.