Get the PPWR Q&A Playbook
Clear answers to the questions packaging teams are asking now that the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU) 2025/40 applies since 12 August 2026 — from who counts as the manufacturer to what goes into your Declaration of Conformity.
What’s inside
The answers your packaging team keeps asking for
- Manufacturer, producer, importer or distributor? How to identify your role for each packaging
- What your Declaration of Conformity and technical documentation must include
- PFAS and heavy metals in packaging: what is restricted and from when
- EPR registration: who has to register, and where
- The key dates, from August 2026 through 2028, 2030 and beyond — labelling, recyclability and recycled content
How this guide was built
57 questions from real client conversations
We compiled the PPWR questions our clients ask most often and answered each one directly against the official text. Every answer cites its source: Regulation (EU) 2025/40, the European Commission’s Guidance Document of 5 June 2026, and the Commission’s own PPWR FAQ.
This 2nd edition was fully revised after the Commission published the 2nd edition of its FAQ in August 2026, nine days before the Regulation’s general application date. Answers that changed substantively are flagged, and the rest were re-verified.
The questions are grouped into five areas: scope and definitions, roles and EPR registration, substance restrictions and testing, Declaration of Conformity and technical documentation, and labelling, marking and enforcement.
