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PPWR — Article 51

The article's text

Article 51 Re-use and refill 1. Member States shall take measures to encourage the establishment of re-use systems for packaging with sufficient incentives for return and of refill systems in an environmentally sound manner. Those systems shall comply with the requirements laid down in Articles 27 and 28 and Annex VI and shall not compromise food hygiene or the safety of consumers. laid down in Articles 27 and 28 and Annex VI and shall not compromise food hygiene or the safety of consumers. 2. The measures referred to in paragraph 1 may include: (a) the use of deposit and return systems compliant with minimum requirements in Annex X for reusable packaging and for packaging formats other than those referred to in Article 50(1); (b) the use of economic incentives, including obligations on final distributors to charge for the use of single-use packaging and to inform consumers about the cost of such packaging at the point of sale; (c) obligations on manufacturers or final distributors to make available in reusable packaging within a re-use system or through refill a certain percentage of products other than those covered by the re-use targets laid down in Article 29, on condition that
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that does not lead to distortions on the internal market or trade barriers for products from other Member States. that that does not lead to distortions on the internal market or trade barriers for products from other Member States. 3. Member States shall ensure that extended producer responsibility schemes and deposit and return systems allocate a minimum share of their budget to financing reduction and prevention actions. Section 6 Recycling targets and promotion of recycling

Who tried to change it in committee

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

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Renew2
S&D1
Verts/ALE1

Source: the committee amendment documents. n = 5 amendments targeting this article.

Grace O'Sullivan — Article 51 – paragraph 2 a (new)
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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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IKG crewshop24.comDEecified in Article 43(1). Member States may need to complement the harmonised EU measures with national measures, as specified in Article 51(2)(c). Member States may increase the harmonised reuse targets set forth in Article 29(6) or set reuse targets for othe
AmcorBEmany others. We call for the removal of the entry referring to the packaging databases of entry (b) in Article 51(2). Article 52 (Procedure for dealing with packaging presenting a risk at national level) Enabling member states to take action regionally or nati
Health and Environment Justice SupportDEorne by the general public (e.g. costs for cleaning littered packaging waste) must be covered by the producers of that packaging. Article 51 Packaging databases
HPE -Bundesverband Holzpackmittel, Paletten, Exportverpackung e.V.DEweite digitale Lösung für notwendig und ausreichend. 18. Die geplanten Datenbanken über Verpackungen und Verpackungsabfälle gemäß Artikel 51 sollten so konzipiert sein, dass sie für Schnittstellen zur automatischen Datenübertragung offen sind. 19. Darüber hina
DElittered packaging waste) must be covered by the producers of that packaging. Article 51 Packaging databases 1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that databases on packaging and packaging waste are established, where not already in plac
Nordic EcolabellingSEin hotels as stated in the Annex V. There is also a ban on disposable items in the criteria for restaurant premises. Article 51 – Packaging databases Considering Nordic Ecolabelling’s concerns about the potentially harmful substances originating from recycled

Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 6 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.

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