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Regulation on the collection, recycling and deposit on non-reusable beverage packaging.

Notification Number:

2017/9002/IS (Iceland)

Date received:

22/02/2017

End of Standstill:

23/05/2017 (closed)

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Message 901

Communication from the Commission - TRIS/(2017) 00497
Procedure for the provision of information EC - EFTA

Notificación - Oznámení - Notifikation - Notifizierung - Teavitamine - Γνωστοποίηση - Notification - Notification - Notifica - Pieteikums - Pranešimas - Bejelentés - Notifika - Kennisgeving - Zawiadomienie - Notificação - Hlásenie-Obvestilo - Ilmoitus - Anmälan - Нотификация : 2017/9002/IS - Notificare.

No abre el plazo - Nezahajuje odklady - Fristerne indledes ikke - Kein Fristbeginn - Viivituste perioodi ei avata - Καμμία έναρξη προθεσμίας - Does not open the delays - N'ouvre pas de délais - Non fa decorrere la mora - Neietekmē atlikšanu - Atidėjimai nepradedami - Nem nyitja meg a késéseket - Ma’ jiftaħx il-perijodi ta’ dawmien - Geen termijnbegin - Nie otwiera opóźnień - Não inicia o prazo - Neotvorí oneskorenia - Ne uvaja zamud - Määräaika ei ala tästä - Inleder ingen frist - Не се предвижда период на прекъсване - Nu deschide perioadele de stagnare - Nu deschide perioadele de stagnare.

(MSG: 201700497.EN)
1. MSG 901 IND 2017 9002 IS EN 22-02-2017 IS NOTIF

2. IS

3A. Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Raudararstig 25
IS-150 Reykjavik
Tel: +354 560 9900
Fax: +354 560 4862

3B. Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources
Skuggasundi 1
101 Reykjavik
Tel: +354 545 8600
Fax: +354 562 4566

4. 2017/9002/IS - S20E

5. Regulation on the collection, recycling and deposit on non-reusable beverage packaging.

6. Regarding Disposable Drink Packaging

7. -

8. New regulation on the collection, recycling and deposit on non-reusable beverage packaging, as the older regulation has been amended eleven times and there is a need of a more coherent regulation.

The regulation includes a new provision on the design of beverage packaging (Article 9 of the Regulation). The Article stipulates that beverage packaging on which a deposit is levied shall be marked with a bar code on a label on each individual returnable unit of packaging and the bar code shall fulfil the ISO/IEC 15420 standards. The bar code shall be placed vertically on the beverage packaging. The bar code shall be at least 80 % of the defined basic size of bar codes under international standards. Furthermore, beverage packaging on which a deposit is levied shall not be made of porcelain or ceramics.

9. It is necessary, in order to establish mechanised reception and monitoring of the reception of packaging on which a deposit is levied, to identify beverage packaging with bar codes. In 2011 a legal authorisation was inserted into Act no. 52/1989, stating that a provision for the labelling of beverage packaging could be set out in a regulation. Mechanised reception was rare in Iceland before 2008, with the exception of a period between 1990 and 1995 during which shops received packaging on which a deposit was levied. With increased technical advances and an increased need for monitoring the need for rules on such identification has become pressing. Such identification is possible by using bar codes on goods. In order for such monitoring to work effectively it is necessary to set out rules stating that all packaging on which a deposit is levied should have such markings and for them to be in legible form. Therefore references are made herein to international standards on the type and size of bar codes.

It is considered necessary to recommend a provision to ban the use of beverage packaging made of porcelain or ceramics because the intermixing of porcelain and ceramics with other recycling streams, such as glass, plastics and aluminium, is undesirable and can spoil the recycling of these materials.

10. No Basic Text exists

11. No

12. -

13. No

14. No

15. -

16. TBT aspect

No - The draft has no significant impact on international trade

SPS aspect

No - The draft is not a sanitary or phytosanitary measure

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