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WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.95.206
13July1995
ORGANIZATION
(95-2014)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: SWEDEN
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers maybeprovided inaddition, where applicable): Packaging
5. Title andnumber ofpages ofthenotified document: TheSwedish Environmental
Protection Agency 'sRegulation onPackaging
6. Description ofcontent:
- Definitions ofpackaging withexamples -inlinewiththeEC-directive.
- Exemptions ofpackaging withacontent ofunhealthy orhazardous waste -
principally inlinewiththeEC-directive andinaccordance withtheSwedish
legislation.
- Collection systems thataretobesupplied bytheproducers forthe
consumers.
- Producers 'responsibility inorder totakecareofthepackaging waste inan
environmentally sound manner.
- Definitions ofterms -principally inlinewith theEC-directive andin
accordance withtheSwedish legislation, which means more strict regulations
forenergy recovery andorganic recycling. Thetermmaterial recycling does
notcover organic recycling.
- Obligation toreport amount ofpackaging putonthemarket, reuse, recovery,
recycling etc.-differs from theEC-directive. TheSwedish information
system isbased onsoldamounts ofpackaging notonstatistics oftrade.
There isnodividing intohousehold andnon-household waste. This
Regulation prescribes thedatathathastobecollected from theproducers.
When reporting totheEUthisdata hastobecompleted with other
information.
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7. Objective andrationale: Thepurpose oftheregulation isto:
- giveguidelines totheproducers onhowtodecide whether aproduct is
considered tobeapackaging ornot;
- minimize risksinthehandling ofpackaging waste;
- direct thecollecting, recovery andrecycling ofpackaging;
- make itpossible tofollow uptheproducers 'responsibility;
- create uniform rules andguidelines forallproducers.
These regulations willbeissued byvirtue oftheSwedish Ordinance ofpackaging.
TheOrdinance which hadbeen proposed inthebeginning of1993 came intoforce
1October 1994. Inthemeantime, theproducers have already established certain
material companies with thetask toadministrate collection andrecovery etc.of
packaging waste. Thematerial companies areopen toallproducers, butitisalso
possible totaketheproducer responsibility ononesown.
8. Relevant documents: Ordinance concerning producer responsibility forpackaging
(SFS 1994: 1235). ThenewRegulation willbepublished intheStatute Book ofthe
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
9. Proposed dateofadoption andentry intoforce: 1October 1995 and1January 1996
10. Final dateforcomments: 12September 1995
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: