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While Member States are not required to use the EU harmonised deposit and return (DRS) label, they cannot prohibit the affixing of DRS labels on their market packaged products carrying DRS labels which have been affixed in other Member States, and this applies to both mandatory and non-mandatory deposit and return systems. By using the harmonised label, Member States will reduce the risk of creating barriers to the internal market via national DRS labels. When providing rules for national DRS labels, Member States are recommended to consider the Communication from the Commission — ‘Beverage packaging, deposit systems and free movement of goods’ (2009/C 107/01) (26).

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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.