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PPWR — Article 2

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Article 2 Scope 1. This Regulation applies to all packaging, regardless of the material used, and to all packaging waste, whether such packaging is used in or such packaging waste originates from industry, other manufacturing, retail or distribution, offices, services or households. 2. This Regulation applies without prejudice to the provisions of Directive 2008/98/EC as regards the management of hazardous waste as well as to Union regulatory requirements for packaging such as those for safety, quality, the protection of health and the hygiene of packed products, and to transport requirements. However, where this Regulation conflicts with Directive 2008/68/EC, Directive 2008/68/EC shall prevail.

Who tried to change it in committee

Committee-stage amendments targeting exactly this article, by political group. Justifications verbatim, in the authors' own words.

GroupAmendments
ID38
PPE17
—5
ECR5
Renew4

Source: the committee amendment documents. n = 12 amendments targeting this article.

Massimiliano Salini, Francesca Peppucci, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Fulvio Martusciello, Adam Jarubas, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Dolors Montserrat — Article 2 – paragraph 1
Dangerous goods must be transported using approved packaging, and prototypes of such packaging must be tested and manufactured using materials that ensure the strength and safety of its contents.
Ulrike Müller, Susana Solís Pérez, Ondřej Knotek — Article 2 – paragraph 2
The Waste Framework Directive explicitly foresees that making the choice that delivers the best overall environmental outcome justified by life-cycle thinking may require specific waste streams to depart from the hierarchy. In contrast to the waste hierarchy as defined by the WFD, this proposal takes a very rigid approach to the hierarchy and prioritises re-use over recycling, without due consideration to the overall
Massimiliano Salini, Francesca Peppucci, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Fulvio Martusciello, Adam Jarubas, Lukas Mandl, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Dolors Montserrat — Article 2 – paragraph 2
Policy decisions should be based on sound scientific assessment, with harmonized methods including the life-cycle environmental impact of packaging, the packaged product, and its system, as well as an assessment of the economic and technological implications that encourage packaging solutions with the best environmental performance, in accordance with Article 4(2) of the Waste Framework Directive, which states that o

What plenary voted on this article

Every vote on this article's amendments, from the voting-results minutes. The bar shows the split; hover for exact counts.

Amfor/against/abstainedLT votesGroups
421adopted318/300/2Am 421: +318 / −300 / ~2

Source: the European Parliament's voting-results minutes. n = 1 votes on this article; 'LT votes' is how many Lithuanian members voted for/against in that vote (from roll-call records; not every vote is a roll-call).

Who wrote about this article in the consultations

Filers who named this exact article number in their own text. It is their sentence, not our reading — and not a causal claim.

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WhoCountryWhat they wrote
IKG crewshop24.comDEption for baby food as referred to in Regulation (EU) No 609/201318 should be understood in line with the definition given in its Article 2(2f). Therefore, the exemption should not be understood as covering all fruit juices and purees and other products that a ↗
Federation of Finnish Woodworking IndustriesFIer or producer responsibility organisation. Commercially sensitive customer data should not be made public. Suggested addition to Article 2 The reporting format shall enable corrections and reimbursements for packaging which, after having been reported in a Me ↗
Marie HandwovensFRerson running every aspect of my business, navigating this bureaucracy takes vital time and energy directly away from my loom and art. 2/ Because I send very few packages, I always reuse boxes to keep costs down and reduce waste. The recycling fee on these reu ↗
Marco SeitzROuse the same interoperable definitions and interface. 4. Preserve meaningful simplification for producers below 10 tonnes. Draft Article 2(3)-(4) appears to require material-level reporting and reliance on technical documentation or an equivalent complete pac ↗
ASINCAEStoneladas. ASINCA no debería proponer un umbral alternativo sin evidencia, pero sí exigir revisión y proporcionalidad. 8. ARTÍCULO 2.3: ENVASES MULTIMATERIAL Y COMPONENTES TEXTO / CONTENIDO DEL PROYECTO PROPUESTA ASINCA JUSTIFICACIÓN Los envases se declaran so ↗
Heid&ShoesDEI certifying compliance with extended producer responsibility obligations. Article 2 Format and data for reporting 1. The formats for reporting to the register of producers shall be as set out in Annex II and shall be used as follows: (a) Part A for producers ↗
HybridPunk BerlinDEn every Member State and appoint a paid authorised representative in each, regardless of business size. The 10-tonne threshold in Article 2 only simplifies the reporting form; it does not exempt micro-businesses from registration or representative obligations. ↗
Rolf VeenESinformation other than that set out in Annex I, with any addition notified and justified. 2. Annex II discards the per-unit basis Article 2(4) requires. Article 2(4) requires reporting to be based on the Annex VII description of the packaging unit including al ↗
—ATative for extended producer responsibility for batteries and waste batteries and packaging and packaging waste COM/2025/982 final Article 2 Suspension of Article 45(3) of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 The application of Article 45(3) of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 shall ↗
E.I. AURORE SARRAZINFR(p. 3) · section 1.5.2 (p. 4) · section 3, analyse d'impact (p. 4) · considérants 3, 4, 5 (p. 7) · considérants 6, 8, 9 (p. 8) · article 2 (p. 9). Directive 2008/98/CE, articles 8 et 8 bis, par renvoi des articles 44, 45 et 46 du règlement 2025/40. Recommanda ↗
Kerber & Lampe GmbHDE"einmal erfassen überall einreichen" ermöglicht. 2. Vereinfachtes Format für Kleinstunternehmen unterhalb der 10-Tonnen-Schwelle Art. 2 Abs. 1 unterscheidet Teil A (10 t/Jahr) und Teil B (<10 t/Jahr) beim Reporting. Wir bitten darum, für Unternehmen unterhalb ↗
—NLr of separate registers a producer must interact with; a harmonised format is not a harmonised process. The 10-tonne threshold in Article 2 simplifies reporting content but does nothing to reduce the number of registrations or Article 45 representative appoint ↗
Colla & Gen Verlag und Service UG (haftungsbeschränkt) & Co. KGDElumen nur aus einigen Kartons besteht. Annex II, Part B verlangt auch für weniger als zehn Tonnen materialbezogene Mengenangaben. Artikel 2 Absatz 4 knüpft die Angaben an die technische Dokumentation nach der PPWR oder an eine gleichwertige vollständige Beschr ↗
VeriGreen sp. z o.o.PLednego dostawcy. Uwaga nr 6 - Nadmierna szczegółowość sprawozdawczości uproszczonej poniżej 10 ton Przepis: Załącznik II część B; art. 2 ust. 1 lit. ↗
Antero CarvalhoPTwithout a corresponding field Provision concerned. Recital 8, Article 2(3) and Annex II, Parts A and B Observation. Recital 8 provides that components separable from the main body of the packaging, which may enter different material streams and have different ↗
—DEtremely detailed reporting, including: “the weight of all constituent materials… of each separate component of a packaging unit” (Article 2(3)) “information… based on the technical documentation established in accordance with Annex VII” (Article 2(4)) This lev ↗
Confederation of Swedish EnterpriseSElation contributes to the shifting to a biobased economy, by laying down measures accordance with Bioeconomy Action Plan1) 4 (18) Article 2 - Scope Swedish Enterprise welcomes that the proposal deals with the top steps in the waste hierar- chy. However, it wis ↗
ViatrisUSw materials would jeopardise the quality of the product, and therefore the safety of the patient. This would also be in line with Article 2(2) of the proposal, which calls for the Regulation to apply without prejudice to Union regulatory requirements for packa ↗
Gemeinschaft Papiersackindustrie e.V.DEcalculated in Article 47 and, (c) is recycled at scale, according to paragraph 6 of Article 6. Additional Amendments Amendment 22 Article 2 – paragraph 2 This Regulation applies without prejudice to Union regulatory requirements for packagin such as those rega ↗
AmcorBEtaking into account the results of increased GHG emissions, therefore directly contradicting the EU’s climate goals. Policy ask: Article 2 should foresee that the PPWR leads to a better environmental outcome. Substances in packaging (Article 5) We welcome the ↗
FoodDrinkEuropeBEresentation or labelling. Beverage bottles intended and used for food for special medical purposes as defined in 6/6 point (g) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 that is in liquid form are already exempted from requirements for separate collection, in ↗
Brancheninitiative ProduktverantwortungDEent on which the draft is based focus exclusively on household packaging and not on industrial/commercial packaging. According to Art. 2, the scope of the regulation shall cover all packaging, regardless of whether the packaging waste arises in industry/commer ↗
Industrieverband Garten (IVG) e. V.DEund die Besonderheiten bestimmter Produkte außer Acht lassen. Wir nehmen zu dem Verordnungsentwurf sodann wie folgt Stellung: Zu Art. 2 (Anwendungsbereich) Den Anwendungsbereich der Verordnung auf alle Verpackungen zu erstrecken und somit für alle Verpackunge ↗
Japam Machinery Center for Trade and InvestmentJPGreen Deal and the new Circular Economy Action Plan. Therefore, we would like to submit the following comments. 1. Article 2 (Scope) Packaging for consumers and packaging for industry serve different applications and should therefore be clearly distinguished w ↗
FederchimicaITo international trade and appears to be in contrast with the rules established by the World Trade Organization, in particular the Article 2.2 of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade. According to this provision, the technical standards must not be more ↗
Medicines for EuropeBEw materials would jeopardise the quality of the product, and therefore the safety of the patient. This would also be in line with Article 2(2) of the proposal, which calls for the Regulation to apply without prejudice to Union regulatory requirements for packa ↗
Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V.DEdiese als Abfälle in der Industrie, Gewerbe oder in sonstigen Herstellungs- oder Vertriebsunternehmen anfallen.“ Art. 2 (2) sollte wie folgt angepasst werden: „Diese Verordnung gilt unbeschadet der für Verpackungen geltenden rechtlichen Anforderungen der Union ↗
U.S. Dairy Export CouncilUSmpt the packaging utilized for infant formula as defined in Regulation 609/2013 from this regulation, either through the scope in Article 2 or alternatively in 3 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02013R0609- 20230321&qid=1680804924102 ↗
European Bioeconomy BureauBEnitrate run-off from wet digestates). Such recommendations have been adopted in the draft proposal of the Commission on Taxonomy (article 2.5) for which the public consultation is open until May 3rd 2023. ENDS ↗
ICPPDEmay change or further comments may be added depending on meaning of definitions used. PPWR Wording suggestion Justification Scope Article 2 Scope ↗

Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 35 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.

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