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COMMISSION NOTICE Guidance document for Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on packaging and packaging waste · European Union
As regards labels for recycled content and bio-based content under Article 12(4), they will be fully harmonised from 12 August 2028 or 24 months after the entry into force of the related implementing act, but the use of these labels is voluntary. This means that economic operators are not obliged to indicate the recycled content or bio-based content on their packaging, but if they wish to indicate this, they must use the EU harmonised technical specifications.
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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.