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Packaging Classification Ordinance [Verpackungsabgrenzungsverordnung], Amendment 2025

Notification Number:

2025/0436/AT (Austria)

Date received:

11/08/2025

End of Standstill:

12/11/2025 (closed)

Draft Text:

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Impact assessment:

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Communication from the Commission - TRIS/(2025) 2140

Directive (EU) 2015/1535

Notification: 2025/0436/AT

Notification of a draft text from a Member State

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1. MSG 001 IND 2025 0436 AT EN 11-08-2025 AT NOTIF

2. Austria

3A. Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie und Tourismus
Abteilung II/8
A-1010 Wien, Stubenring 1
Telefon +43-1/71100-805436
E-Mail: not9834@bmwet.gv.at

3B. Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Klima- und Umweltschutz, Regionen und Wasserwirtschaft
Sektion V – Umwelt und Kreislaufwirtschaft
Abteilung – V/2
A-1010 Wien, Stubenbastei 5
E-Mail: Georg.Fuernsinn@bmluk.gv.at

4. 2025/0436/AT - S10E - Packaging

5. Packaging Classification Ordinance [Verpackungsabgrenzungsverordnung], Amendment 2025

6. Packaging

7.
Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste
The underlying regulation regulates the distinction between household and commercial packaging.

8. In 2015, the Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry, Environment and Water Management adopted the Packaging Classification Ordinance, which enabled corrections to be made to the packaging allocations for households on the one hand, and for commercial enterprises on the other. This Regulation is currently limited in time until the end of 2025 and is to be extended for an additional four years (until the end of 2029).

9. The most exact possible classification of household packaging and commercial packaging is necessary in order to be able to correctly allocate the respective costs of collection and recycling. The requirements of this regulation have proven their worth, with no major changes evident. The EU Packaging Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2025/40 of 19 December 2024 on packaging and packaging waste, amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and Directive (EU) 2019/904 and repealing Directive 94/62/EC) also allows Member States to maintain the household/commercial distinction after its date of application on 12 August 2026. (see also Recital 120: “Member States that have set up different systems for the management of packaging waste from households on the one hand, and packaging waste from industrial and commerce settings on the other should be able to maintain their specific system.”).

10. Reference to the basic texts: 2014/0476/A,2020/0601/A

Basic texts have been forwarded under a previous notification:
2014/0476/A
2020/0601/A

11. No

12.

13. No

14. No

15. Yes

16.
TBT aspects: No

SPS aspects: No

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European Commission
Contact point Directive (EU) 2015/1535
email: grow-dir2015-1535-central@ec.europa.eu

Disclosed messages

message-id	Year	Number	Country	Type	Title	Date received
112685	2025	2141	COMEuropean Commission	003	Receipt of the draft text	11-08-2025
112686	2025	2142	COMEuropean Commission	037	Competitiveness analysis	11-08-2025
117620	2026	2888	COMEuropean Commission	049	Acknowledgement of receipt of the adopted text	14-10-2026

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