European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste (c. 62)

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[F1 ANNEX I U.K. ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES FOR THE CRITERIA REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(1)

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Directive 2013/2/EU of 7 February 2013 amending Annex I to Directive 94/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on packaging and packaging waste (Text with EEA relevance).

Illustrative examples for criterion (i) U.K.

Packaging U.K.

• Sweet boxes

• Film overwrap around a CD case

• Mailing pouches for catalogues and magazines (with a magazine inside)

• Cake doilies sold with a cake

• Rolls, tubes and cylinders around which flexible material (e.g. plastic film, aluminium, paper) is wound, except rolls, tubes and cylinders intended as parts of production machinery and not used to present a product as a sales unit

• Flower pots intended to be used only for the selling and transporting of plants and not intended to stay with the plant throughout its life time

• Glass bottles for injection solutions

• CD spindles (sold with CDs, not intended to be used as storage)

• Clothes hangers (sold with a clothing item)

• Matchboxes

• Sterile barrier systems (pouches, trays and materials necessary to preserve the sterility of the product)

• Beverage system capsules (e.g. coffee, cacao, milk) which are left empty after use

• Refillable steel cylinders used for various kinds of gas, excluding fire extinguishers

Non-packaging U.K.

• Flower pots intended to stay with the plant throughout its life time

• Tool boxes

• Tea bags

• Wax layers around cheese

• Sausage skins

• Clothes hangers (sold separately)

• Beverage system coffee capsules, coffee foil pouches, and filter paper coffee pods disposed together with the used coffee product

• Cartridges for printers

• CD, DVD and video cases (sold together with a CD, DVD or video inside)

• CD spindles (sold empty, intended to be used as storage)

• Soluble bags for detergents

• Grave side lights (containers for candles)

• Mechanical quern (integrated in a refillable recipient, e.g. refillable pepper mill)

Illustrative examples for criterion (ii) U.K.

Packaging, if designed and intended to be filled at the point of sale U.K.

• Paper or plastic carrier bags

• Disposable plates and cups

• Cling film

• Sandwich bags

• Aluminium foil

• Plastic foil for cleaned clothes in laundries

Non-packaging U.K.

• Stirrer

• Disposable cutlery

• Wrapping paper (sold separately)

• Paper baking cases (sold empty)

• Cake doilies sold without a cake

Illustrative examples for criterion (iii) U.K.

Packaging U.K.

Labels hung directly on or attached to a product

Part of packaging U.K.

• Mascara brush which forms part of the container closure

• Sticky labels attached to another packaging item

• Staples

• Plastic sleeves

• Device for measuring dosage which forms part of the container closure for detergents

• Mechanical quern (integrated in a non-refillable recipient, filled with a product, e.g. pepper mill filled with pepper)

Non-packaging U.K.

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