Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 16(2). Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 3 July 2021. Daher hat das EU-Parlament die "Single-Use Plastics (SUP) Directive" beschlossen, die am 2. Die dort am häufigsten gefundenen Gegenstände sind Einwegplastik und Fischereiausrüstung. … The marking shall not be required for packaging with a surface area of less than 10 cm2; provide that the marking of single-use plastic products listed in point (4) of Part D of the Annex shall be placed on the product itself; and. The setting of the separate collection target should be based on the amount of single-use plastic beverage bottles placed on the market in a Member State or alternatively on the amount of waste single-use plastic beverage bottles generated in a Member State. The format developed according to Article 12 of Directive 94/62/EC shall be taken into consideration. Separate collection is not required to ensure proper treatment in line with the waste hierarchy for tobacco products with filters containing plastic, wet wipes and balloons. The first reporting period shall be the calendar year 2022, with the exception of points (e) and (f) of the first subparagraph for which the first reporting period shall be the calendar year 2023. Following its adoption, KH reports that the European Commission launched an 18-month study to inform the implementation of the directive, including a first public survey in October and November 2019. Member States shall integrate the measures set out in the description into the plans or programmes referred to in Article 11 upon the first subsequent update of those plans or programmes in accordance with the relevant legislative acts of the Union governing those plans or programmes, or into any other programmes drawn up specifically for that purpose. Wir haben für Sie die wichtigsten Punkte zusammengefasst. Single-use plastic products include a diverse range of commonly used fast-moving consumer products that are discarded after having been used once for the purpose for which they were provided, are rarely recycled, and are prone to becoming litter. It is important to monitor the levels of marine litter in the Union in order to assess the implementation of this Directive. The Single-Use Plastic Directive (EU) 2019/904 was published in June 2019. Member States shall take the necessary measures to achieve an ambitious and sustained reduction in the consumption of the single-use plastic products listed in Part A of the Annex, in line with the overall objectives of the Union’s waste policy, in particular waste prevention, leading to a substantial reversal of increasing consumption trends. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof. Beverage bottles with a capacity of up to three litres, including their caps and lids, but not: glass or metal beverage bottles that have caps and lids made from plastic. 1. 3. Viele Plastikprodukte werden nur einmal und das auch nur sehr kurz verwendet, bewirken jedoch langfristige Probleme in der Natur. In order to comply with the SUPD, Member States (MS) have two years to bring into force the necessary laws, regulations and administrative provisions. By 3 July 2020, the Commission shall adopt an implementing act laying down the methodology for the calculation and verification of the separate collection targets laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article. They also discussed the presentation Gil will give on the morning of April 22nd, on the Single-use Plastics directive, outlining the changes in store for producers and the wider implications for the industry. 1. 4. The Single-Use Plastics Directive — Directive (EU) 2019/904 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment—was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (click here to view). The Single-Use Plastics Directive adopted by the European Parliament today is an essential element of the Commission's Circular Economy Action Plan as it stimulates the production and use of sustainable alternatives that avoid marine litter. The EU Single-Use Plastics Directive sets a 90% separate collection target for plastic beverage bottles by 2029. Member States shall ensure that extended producer responsibility schemes are established for all single-use plastic products listed in Part E of the Annex which are placed on the market of the Member State, in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a of Directive 2008/98/EC. The Directive aims to reduce the impact of plastic products and therefore help protect the environment and human health. In addition, some of those measures, in particular marketing restrictions for single-use plastic products, could create barriers to trade and distort competition in the Union. Cutlery (forks, knives, spoons, chopsticks); Straws, except if they fall within the scope of Directive 90/385/EEC or Directive 93/42/EEC; Sticks to be attached to and to support balloons, except balloons for industrial or other professional uses and applications that are not distributed to consumers, including the mechanisms of such sticks; Food containers made of expanded polystyrene, i.e. In order for those efforts to be effective, it is also important that exports of plastic waste from the Union do not result in increased marine litter elsewhere. Those standards shall in particular address the need to ensure the necessary strength, reliability and safety of beverage container closures, including those for carbonated drinks. With regard to the single-use plastic products listed in Section III of Part E of the Annex to this Directive, Member States shall ensure that the producers cover, in addition, the costs of waste collection for those products that are discarded in public collection systems, including the infrastructure and its operation, and the subsequent transport and treatment of that waste. Single-Use-Plastics-Directive (SUPD) Der Leitlinienentwurf weitet die Kunststoff-Definition der SUPD auf natürliche Polymere aus. Extended producer responsibility schemes for tobacco products with filters containing plastic should also encourage innovation leading to the development of sustainable alternatives to tobacco product filters containing plastic. The Single-Use Plastic Directive (EU) 2019/904 was published in June 2019. Certain single-use plastic products end up in the environment as a result of inappropriate disposal through the sewer system or other inappropriate release into the environment. This is due to ineffective separate collection systems and low participation in those systems by consumers. However, the commission rejected this call. The core objective of the Single-Use Plastic Directive is notoriously to tackle the issue of marine littering. Single-use plastic products listed in Part F of the Annex placed on the market in a Member State may be deemed to be equal to the amount of waste generated from such products, including as litter, in the same year in that Member State. Such agreements shall meet the following requirements: agreements need to specify objectives with the corresponding deadlines; agreements shall be published in the national official journal or an official document equally accessible to the public and transmitted to the Commission; the results achieved under an agreement shall be monitored regularly, reported to the competent authorities and to the Commission and made available to the public under the conditions set out in the agreement; the competent authorities shall make provisions to examine the progress reached under an agreement; and. Tobacco product filters containing plastic are the second most found single-use plastic items on beaches in the Union. After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments. The presence of hazardous chemical substances in sanitary towels, tampons and tampon applicators should be avoided in the interest of women’s health. 7. It will support reaching the recycling targets for packaging waste set in Directive 94/62/EC. Glass and metal beverage containers should not be covered by this Directive as they are not among the single-use plastic products that are found the most on beaches in the Union. To further clarify whether a product is to be considered a single-use plastic product for the purposes of this Directive, … “The European Strategy for Plastics is a step towards establishing a circular economy in which the design and production of plastics and plastic products fully respect re-use, repair and recycling needs and in which more sustainable materials are developed and promoted.” The latest draft of the guidelines that will steer the implementation of the Single-Use Plastic Directive aims to more precisely define just what is covered by the new legislation, according to a copy of the document and accompanying annex obtained by POLITICO. Market restrictions (bans) The plastic products to be banned under the directive include: cutlery (forks, knives, spoons, chopsticks); plates; straws; cotton bud sticks; beverage stirrers; Member States should have the highest possible ambition for those measures, which should induce a substantial reversal of increasing consumption trends and lead to a measurable quantitative reduction. The aim of this Directive is to protect the environment and human health. (1)  Council Directive 90/385/EEC of 20 June 1990 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to active implantable medical devices (OJ L 189, 20.7.1990, p. 17). 3. Umgelegt auf die heutige Weltbevölkerung, entspricht das mehr als einer Tonne pro Kopf. Use quotation marks to search for an "exact phrase". The Commission shall submit a report on the main findings of the evaluation carried out in accordance with paragraph 1 to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee. Examples of beverage containers to be considered as single-use plastic products are beverage bottles or composite beverage packaging used for beer, wine, water, liquid refreshments, juices and nectars, instant beverages or milk, but not cups for beverages as these are a separate category of single-use plastic products for the purposes of this Directive. Therefore setting up separate collection for those products should not be mandatory. The new law, known also as the single-use plastics (SUP) Directive, aims to prevent and reduce the impact of certain plastic products on the environment, in particular the aquatic environment, and on human health. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 16(2). (20)  Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13). Other single-use plastic products covered by Article 8(3) on extended producer responsibility. (14)  Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1). Therefore, the fishermen themselves and artisanal makers of fishing gear containing plastic should not be considered as producers and should not be held responsible for fulfilling the obligations of the producer related to the extended producer responsibility. Single-use plastic products and fishing gear containing plastic are therefore a particularly serious problem in the context of marine litter, pose a severe risk to marine ecosystems, to biodiversity and to human health and damage activities such as tourism, fisheries and shipping. Als Grundlage der EU-Plastik-Richtlinie dienten die Untersuchungen europäischer Strände. The calculation methodology shall be developed in a way that allows for the costs of cleaning up litter to be established in a proportionate way. The new EU directive on Single-Use Plastics will be the most ambitious legal instrument at global level addressing marine litter. Since the objectives of this Directive, namely to prevent and to reduce the impact of certain single-use plastic products, products made from oxo-degradable plastic and fishing gear containing plastic on the environment and on human health, and to promote the transition to a circular economy, including the fostering of innovative and sustainable business models, products and materials, thus also contributing to the efficient functioning of the internal market, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of the scale and effects of the action, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. As plastic components of fishing gear have high recycling potential, Member States should, in line with the polluter-pays principle, introduce extended producer responsibility for fishing gear and components of fishing gear containing plastic to ensure separate collection of waste fishing gear and to finance environmentally sound waste management of waste fishing gear, in particular recycling. By 3 January 2021, the Commission shall adopt an implementing act laying down the methodology for the calculation and verification of the ambitious and sustained reduction in the consumption of the single-use plastic products listed in Part A of the Annex. Microplastics do not fall directly within the scope of this Directive, yet they contribute to marine litter and the Union should therefore adopt a comprehensive approach to that problem. beverage bottles intended and used for food for special medical purposes as defined in point (g) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 that is in liquid form. Economic and other incentives to support sustainable consumer choices and promote responsible consumer behaviour can be an effective tool for achieving the objectives of this Directive. To focus efforts where they are most needed, this Directive should cover only those single-use plastic products that are found the most on beaches in the Union as well as fishing gear containing plastic and products made from oxo-degradable plastic. This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website, Directive (EU) 2019/904 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 155, 12.6.2019, p. 1–19 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV), ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/904/oj, DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/904 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL, on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment. Article 5 introduces a restriction on the placing of certain single-use plastics onto the market, stating: "Member States shall prohibit the placing on the market of the products listed in Part B of the Directive's Annex and of products made from oxo-degradable plastic". Single-use plastic products are typically intended to be used just once or for a short period of time before being disposed of. Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUPD) Objectives of the SUPD: • Prevent and reduce the impact of certain plastic products on the environment and human health • Promote the transition to a circular economy ‒Plastic productsshouldbemanufactured taking into account their entire life span Almost a year has passed since the European Parliament and the European Council adopted the Single-use Plastics Directive (SUPD) in summer 2019. Those costs should not exceed the costs that are necessary to provide those services in a cost-efficient way and should be established in a transparent way between the actors concerned. (22)  Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 22). receptacles used to contain liquid, such as beverage bottles including their caps and lids and composite beverage packaging including their caps and lids, but not: glass or metal beverage containers that have caps and lids made from plastic.