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Textual Amendments
Sweet boxes
Film overwrap around a CD case
Flower pots intended to stay with the plant throughout its life
Tool boxes
Tea bags
Wax layers around cheese
Sausage skins
Paper or plastic carrier bags
Disposable plates and cups
Cling film
Sandwich bags
Aluminium foil
Stirrer
Disposable cutlery
Labels hung directly on or attached to a product
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.]
Packaging shall be so manufactured that the packaging volume and weight be limited to the minimum adequate amount to maintain the necessary level of safety, hygiene and acceptance for the packed product and for the consumer.
Packaging shall be designed, produced and commercialized in such a way as to permit its reuse or recovery, including recycling, and to minimize its impact on the environment when packaging waste or residues from packaging waste management operations are disposed of.
Packaging shall be so manufactured that the presence of noxious and other hazardous substances and materials as constituents of the packaging material or of any of the packaging components is minimized with regard to their presence in emissions, ash or leachate when packaging or residues from management operations or packaging waste are incinerated or landfilled.
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,
possiblity 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.
Packaging must be manufactured in such a way as to enable the recycling of a certain percentage by weight of the materials used into the manufacture of marketable products, in compliance with current standards in the Community. The establishment of this percentage may vary, depending on the type of material of which the packaging is composed.
Packaging waste processed for the purpose of energy recovery shall have a minimum inferior calorific value to allow optimization of energy recovery.
Packaging waste processed for the purpose of composting shall be of such a biodegradable nature that it should not hinder the separate collection and the composting process or activity into which it is introduced.
Biodegradable packaging waste shall be of such a nature that it is capable of undergoing physical, chemical, thermal or biological decomposition such that most of the finished compost ultimately decomposes into carbon dioxide, biomass and water.
quantities, for each broad category of material, of packaging consumed within the country (produced + imported − exported) (Table 1);
quantities reused (Table 2).
quantities for each broad category of material, recovered and disposed of within the country (produced + imported − exported) (Table 3);
quantities recycled and quantities recovered for each broad category of material (Table 4).