EU Directive 94/62/EC regulates packaging design and waste management to ensure environmental protection and internal market functions. Complymarket offers an assessment of gaps and ad hoc consultations to help businesses comply with packaging directions.
Parliamentary and European Council instructions 94/62/EC on December 20, 1994 concerning Packaging and Waste Packaging
EU regulations regarding packaging and packaging waste include packaging design and packaging management. The rule includes all types of packaging and packaging waste placed in the European market, including the industrial, commercial, household, and others.
This rule regulates:
- What type of packaging can be placed in the EU market
- Management of packaging waste and preventive measures
- Compliance with important requirements related to making packaging, composition, and properties that can be reused or recovered
The objectives of the packaging instructions are:
- Harmonize national steps in the field of packaging and management of packaging waste
- Provide high -level environmental protection by limiting the presence of certain heavy metals in packaging (Hg, Pb, Cr6+, CD)
- Ensure the functioning of the internal market properly
- Prevent packaging waste production
- Promoting reuse, recycling, and other forms of recovery of packaging waste
- Have registration requirements, reporting, and recycling in each EU member
How complymarket can help you:
- Experienced complymarket auditors can conduct gap assessments to determine intrinsic risk in illegal substances and your product compliance system. This audit follows the requirements of ISO 9001, IDW PS 980, ISO 37301, IEC 63000, and IEC/TR 62476 and includes a comprehensive list of points to ensure compliance.
- Ad Hoc Consultant Service Regarding Achievement of Packaging Directions Requirements
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