• Subject of the issue: Everything you should know about packaging management in your company
    The Act of 13 June 2013 on the management of packaging and packaging waste (hereinafter: the Packaging Act) defines packaging as a product, including a non-returnable product made of any material, intended for storage, protection, transport, delivery or presentation of products, from raw materials for processed goods. Does the introduction, export or import of products in packaging or packaging impose any obligations on you? What are the penalties for non-compliance with the abovementioned activities? law?
  • What is packaging and what is not - examples
    Below you will find a list of products that are packaging and not packaging.
    Marketing of the packaging / packaging product
    Packaging introducer is understood as an entrepreneur who manufactures and imports packaging and makes intra-Community acquisition or intra-Community delivery of packaging.
  • Packaging marking - how to do it according to the law
    Entrepreneurs introducing products in packaging, producing packaging, importing packaging and purchasing intra-Community purchases of packaging may place special markings on packaging that indicate the type of materials from which they were made (e.g. plastic, glass, wood or paper and cardboard).
  • Obligations of entrepreneurs in the field of packaging and packaging waste management
    In the article you will find four basic responsibilities. Find out if they also apply to you.
  • Self-fulfillment of duties
    Entities may perform their statutory obligations themselves, if they subject to recovery, including recycling, only packaging waste generated by them (statutory levels of recovery/recycling are set out in Annex 1 to the Packaging Act) or in the case of recovery/recycling of waste collected from other waste holders (in the amount of 100% of the mass of packaging placed on the market).
  • Implementation of obligations through a recovery organization
    What requirements should you have for your recovery organization? What are the duties? Details below.
  • DPO and DPR documents - are they different?
    The document confirming the recovery of packaging waste is the DPO document. Confirmation of packaging waste recycling is done by issuing a DPR. Both documents specify the mass of waste and how it is processed.
  • EDPR and EDPO documents
    EDPR / EDPO documents are documents confirming, respectively, the export of packaging waste or intra-Community delivery of packaging waste in order to be recycled or their recovery process other than recycling, including the weight of this waste.
  • Product fee - how to calculate it
    The product fee was introduced on January 1, 2014. It is a kind of ecological fee calculated and paid when launching packaging products and packages under the own trademark on the Polish market. The product fee is charged if the required levels of recovery and recycling are not reached.
  • Recycling fee - what it is
    The recycling fee applies to plastic shopping bags, which are defined as shopping bags with or without handles, made of plastic, which are offered in retail or wholesale units.
    PKE, i.e. public educational campaigns
  • Educational campaigns are activities aimed at raising public ecological awareness. Details below.
  • Hazardous, plant protection and multi-material packaging
    Statutory obligations may be performed alone or through economic self-government organizations.
  • External audit
    The obligation to carry out an external audit applies to packaging waste recycling or recovery, issuing DPO / DPR documents, which has a processing permit, allowing recovery of waste exceeding 400 Mg, and exporting or performing intra-Community delivery of packaging waste, which issued EDPR documents in a given calendar year / EDPO with a mass exceeding 400 Mg.
  • Database on products and packaging as well as waste management
    Who must sign on to BDO? What are the costs involved? Be sure to find out!
  • Check what penalty you can get
    Sanctions are imposed on entrepreneurs for not applying the provisions on registration, recording and reporting at BDO.

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