Packaging as a product
As part of the EU Green Deal, the EU is strengthening the sustainable design of products with new legal acts. The new Packaging Regulation plays an important role in this. The EU Green Deal is a strategy paper published by the European Commission in 2019, which aims to lead the EU to climate neutrality by 2050 by adapting and renewing the legal framework. The strategy paper is not legally binding. However, on 24 June 2021, the European Climate Law was adopted, thereby aiming to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, and all EU Member States are subject to it. Climate neutrality means no more net greenhouse gas emissions from 2050 and decoupling economic growth from re-source utilisation.
Packaging has a significant impact on the environment due to its use in combination with almost all products, its composition and its disposal. Uniform and binding sustain-ability regulations for packaging in the EU and the treatment of packaging as inde-pendent products with requirements for their marketability are indispensable for achieving the goal of climate neutrality.
You can download the full whitepaper here.
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