Packaging Instructions

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 consultations to help businesses comply with packaging instructions.

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

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

This rule governs:

• What kind of packaging can be placed on the EU market
• Packaging waste management and preventive measures
• Compliance with essential requirements related to packaging manufacturing, composition, and reusable or recoverable properties

The Objectives of the Packaging Directive are:

• Harmonize national measures on packaging and packaging waste management
• Provides a high level of environmental protection by limiting the presence of certain heavy metals in the packaging (Hg, Pb, Cr6+, Cd)
• Keeping the internal market functioning properly
• Prevent the production of packaging waste
• Promote reuse, recycling and other forms to recover packaging waste
• Have requirements for registration, reporting and recycling in each EU Member

How ComplyMarket can help you:

• Experienced ComplyMarket auditors can perform a gap assessment to determine the intrinsic risks in your restricted materials and product compliance systems. Audits are in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001, IDW PS 980, ISO 37301, IEC 63000, and IEC/TR 62476 and include a comprehensive list of points to ensure compliance.
• Ad Hoc consultancy services on achieving packaging instruction requirements
• ComplyDoC: is the first intelligent IT and open-source code cloud solution for Supply Chain sustainability, chemical & product compliance management to collect information from suppliers.