Commission’s interpretation:

Beverages sold in large reusable beverage containers, such as beer kegs, to bars and restaurants (business-to-business) to be made available to consumers by the operators of the bars and restaurants (i.e. in the HORECA sector) do not contribute to the re-use targets applicable to the HORECA sector operators. Such beverages are not made available to consumers in sales packaging. Only when the filled large reusable container is made available to a consumer, can the beverage container contribute towards the re-use targets of the beverage distributor. By contrast, in case of smaller beverage packaging, such as reusable bottles, they shall count towards the reuse targets, as they are sales packaging and can be provided directly to consumers.

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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.