Packaging Directive

EU Directive 94/62/EC regulates packaging design and waste management to ensure environmental protection and internal market functioning. ComplyMarket offers gap assessments and ad-hoc consulting to help businesses comply with the packaging directive.

Packaging and packaging waste of the European Parliament and of the Council Directive 94/62/EC 20 December 1994

The EU's rules on packaging and packaging waste cover both packaging design and packaging waste management. The rules cover all types of packaging and packaging waste placed on the European market, including industrial, commercial, household and other sectors.

These rules regnate:

• What kind of packaging can be placed on the EU market
• Packaging waste management and prevention measures
• Compliance with the basic requirements of packaging production, composition and reusable or recoverable nature

Objectives of the Packaging Directive:

• harmonizing national measures on packaging and packaging waste management
• ensure a high level of environmental protection by restricting the presence of certain heavy metals in the packaging (Hg, Pb, Cr6+, Cd)
• Make the domestic market work well
• Preventing the production of packaging waste
• Promote the reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery of packaging waste
• Have requirements for registration, reporting and recycling in every EU Member

How ComplyMarket can help you:

• ComplyMarket's experienced auditors can conduct a gap assessment to identify intrinsic risk to your limited substances and product compliance system. The audit follows the requirements of ISO 9001, IDW PS 980, ISO 37301, IEC 63000 and IEC/TR 62476 and covers an extensive list of points to ensure compliance.
• Ad Hoc consultants provide services in fulfilling the requirements of the packaging directive
• ComplyDoC: is an intelligent IT and the first open source cloud solution for Supply Chain sustainability, chemical and product compliance Management to collect information from suppliers.