Legal provisions:

Article 29(14) establishes cumulative conditions under which Member States may exempt economic operators on their territories from the re-use targets for a period of 5 years. These are: the exempting Member State reaches 5 percentage points above the targets for recycling of packaging waste per material to be achieved by 2025 and is expected to reach 5 percentage points above the 2030 target according to the report published by the Commission 3 years before that date; the exempting Member State is on track to achieve the relevant waste prevention targets set out in Article 43 and can demonstrate to have reduced the packaging waste generated per capita by at least 3 % by 2028 compared to the packaging waste generated per capita in 2018; and the economic operators have adopted a corporate waste prevention and recycling plan that contributes to achieving the waste prevention and recycling objectives set out in Articles 43 and 52, respectively. That period of 5 years may be renewed by the Member State provided that all the conditions are fulfilled.’ The recycling targets to be reached by Member States are laid down in Article 52. The targets are set for the following packaging materials: paper and cardboard, plastic, glass, wood, metal, and aluminium.

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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.