The Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 1998 No. 1165

THE SCHEDULE (Annex II of the Directive)ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS ON THE COMPOSITION AND THE REUSABLE AND RECOVERABLE, INCLUDING RECYCLABLE, NATURE OF PACKAGING

2.  Requirements specific to the reusable nature of packaging

The following requirements must be simultaneously satisfied:

• the physical properties and characteristics of the packaging shall enable a number of trips or rotations in normally predictable conditions of use,

• possibility of processing the used packaging in order to meet health and safety requirements for the workforce,

• fulfil the requirements specific to recoverable packaging when the packaging is no longer reused and thus becomes waste.