European Union | Draft Commission Regulation on recycled plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foods, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 282/2008

Title of document
Draft Commission Regulation on recycled plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foods, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 282/2008 (33 page(s), in English; 16 page(s), in English)

Description
This draft Commission Regulation concerns the placing on the market of plastic materials and articles with recycled/secondary plastic content intended for use in contact with food. It sets out rules for the manufacture thereof, suitable recycling technologies, recycling processes, recycling installations, plastic waste, collection and sorting of plastic input and the decontamination thereof, and the use of the plastic output, quality control, registration of business operators and enforcement, with the purpose to ensure that the recycled content in the final plastic materials and articles intended for contact with food do not cause harm to the consumers of those foods, or change their quality or organoleptic properties. The Regulation repeals Regulation (EC) No 282/2008, which it will replace.

Notifying member: European Union

Notification: G/TBT/N/EU/860

Objective tag
Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the environment

Objective
Food safety

Documents

• 21_7883_00_e.pdf
• 21_7883_01_e.pdf

Agency responsible
European Commission

Timing:

• Submission: 16/12/2021
• Reception: 16/12/2021
• Distribution: 17/12/2021
• Final date for comments: 15/02/2022
• Proposed date of adoption: N/A