European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste
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Article 11U.K.Concentration levels of heavy metals present in packaging
1.Member States shall ensure that the sum of concentration levels of lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium present in packaging or packaging components shall not exceed the following:
600 ppm by weight two years after the date referred to in Article 22 (i);
250 ppm by weight three years after the date referred to in Article 22 (i);
100 ppm by weight five years after the date referred to in Article 22 (i).
2.The concentration levels referred to in paragraph 1 shall not apply to packaging entirely made of lead crystal glass as defined in Directive 69/493/EEC().
[3. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 21a in order to supplement this Directive by determining the conditions under which the concentration levels referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article do not apply to recycled materials and to product loops which are in a closed and controlled chain, as well as by determining the types of packaging which are exempted from the requirement laid down in the third indent of paragraph 1 of this Article.]
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