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The European Commission has launched a call for evidence on two implementing acts and one delegated act under the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).
One implementing act will establish the methodology for calculating and verifying the recycled content from post-consumer plastic waste collected within the EU, as well as the format for technical documentation.
The second will set the rules for assessing, verifying and certifying equivalence where recycled content is recovered from plastic waste from non-EU (third) countries.
The delegated act will provide the sustainability criteria for plastic recycling technologies.
The Commission said it needs to make the rules on recycled content "workable, verifiable and enforceable" and particularly wants to gather evidence on the following:
- data on imports of plastic recyclates, including the estimated annual volume of recycled content imported from third countries;
- the proportion of plastic packaging on the EU market that originates from third countries;
- which third countries are the EU’s main import sources of recycled plastic and recycled content; and
- information on which verification, certification or chain-of-custody schemes are used currently for plastics recovered from post-consumer waste.
Comments can be submitted until 16 September.
The Commission expects to adopt all three measures by 31 December.
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