Highlights
what’s new?
EUROPEN has updated its PPWR Survival Guide based on the final text.
The updated Survival Guide includes:
🔹A deep dive into the new PPWR,
🔹An overview of requirements for economic operators,
🔹Deadlines for secondary legislation and non-legislative acts,
🔹Review and sunset clauses,
🔹Obligations for Member States, waste management operators, and competent authorities.
Highlights
from the newsroom
30 Mar 2026
Industry Calls for Urgent EU Dialogue as PPWR Guidance Leaves Critical Gaps
With only five months to go before the PPWR applies, the reality for Europe’s packaging value chain is clear: uncertainty remains high, and the window to act is closing.
“With only five months...
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17 Mar 2026
Industry Coalition Supports Temporary Suspension of National Authorised Representative Requirement Under EPR
A coalition of European trade associations from across sectors is supporting the European Commission’s proposal to temporarily suspend, within the Union, the mandatory appointment of an Authorised R...
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13 Mar 2026
EUROPEN’s Single Market Start-up Award is back with its 4th Edition!
EUROPEN is pleased to announce the launch of the 4th edition of the Single Market Start-up Award, organised in partnership with JA Europe as part of GEN-E 2026. The award celebrates university startup...
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24 Feb 2026
An Internal Market Legal Basis to drive waste management step-change in the New Circular Economy Act
The undersigned industry associations express their strong support for the European Union’s ambitions for circularity. To achieve a true circular economy and a functioning European market for second...
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EUROPEN in numbers
80
members representing the entire packaging value chain
Founded in
1993
5
packaging materials: glass, metal, paper & cardboard, plastics, wood
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