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COMMISSION NOTICE Guidance document for Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on packaging and packaging waste · European Union
These are not new requirements. They already existed under the PPWD as essential requirements with an associated harmonised compliance methodology standard (EN 13428:2004) (22). While the elements for the assessment of packaging minimisation have been moved from the harmonised standard into the PPWR, ‘consumer acceptance’ and ‘marketing’ were removed as reasons (‘performance criteria’) justifying extra packaging weight and volume. On the other hand, other reasons, such as recyclability, recycled content or re-use, were added as new criteria.
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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.