PPWR finally adopted

The European Parliament has adopted the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).

At the plenary session on 27 November, MEPs raised no objections to the final version of the legislation.

The formal vote had already taken place in April on a provisional version that had not yet been linguistically and legally revised.

The changes to the provisional version are significant, but mainly of a formal nature. Their main purpose is to ensure legal clarity and coherence. In some places, however, the changes may have practical implications, for example, where ‘may’ becomes ‘shall’.

The long delay before final adoption was necessary because Parliament, Council and Commission had agreed on a compromise only a few weeks before the European elections in June, and the necessary vote in Parliament could not wait until the final version of the Regulation was available.

The so-called corrigendum procedure allowed the previous Parliament to vote on the provisional version. An informal agreement in plenary was then needed to adopt the final version, which had been compiled over the summer.

The revision of the Waste Framework Directive, focusing on food and textiles, is still pending with no current date for when the trilogue negotiations between Parliament, Council and Commission will finalise the amendments.

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