The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU) 2025/40 entered into force on 11 February 2025 and applies from 12 August 2026. It sets recyclability performance grades for all packaging, recycled-content targets for plastics, restrictions on substances of concern — notably PFAS in food-contact packaging — and harmonised labelling.
The date that matters most for a digital carrier is 12 February 2027: from then, packaging within the scope of an extended producer responsibility scheme must carry a digital EPR compliance identifier, in practice a QR code. The same date brings the reusable-packaging rotation minimums and national sanction regimes.
dpp.gs models PPWR Article 12 material composition per layer, a recyclability class, the mono-material flag and PFAS measurement — so one passport serves consumer sorting guidance, the EU Declaration of Conformity and producer-responsibility reporting.
Packaging in an EPR scheme must carry a digital EPR identifier from that date, and artwork runs are planned months ahead. The practical deadline is the next time you change a pack, not the legal one — a code added during a planned redesign costs nothing; one added afterwards costs a reprint.
Per-layer composition, recyclability grade and PFAS figures come from converters and labs. Gather them layer by layer as packs come up for revision, rather than all at once under time pressure.
Structured per-material breakdown (PPWR Art. 12), with weights and polymer identification — a carton with a window and a seal is three materials, not one.
A recyclability performance grade aligned with the PPWR design-for-recycling grades.
Flag mono-material packaging — the easiest to recycle and increasingly favoured.
Record PFAS content for food-contact packaging against the PPWR restriction.
Export to generic CSV and JSON plus Asekol and MŽP SR formats for producer-responsibility reporting.
Consumer sorting guidance, the Declaration of Conformity and the full material data behind a single code.
A beverage packaging passport with per-layer material composition, recyclability class and recycling guidance behind one QR.
Packaging within the scope of an extended producer responsibility scheme must carry a digital EPR compliance identifier, in practice a QR code. The same date brings the minimum rotation counts for reusable packaging and the national sanction regimes. It is the PPWR date that most affects anyone printing artwork.
No, and we would rather say so. A single-use pack does not always need one. The hard digital obligations land on reusable packaging, on the EPR identifier from February 2027, and on substances of concern. For everything else the case is commercial, not legal: it moves information off artwork you would otherwise have to reprint.
Because the regulation treats them separately. A carton with a plastic window and an aluminium seal is three materials with three recyclability outcomes, and Article 12 asks you to declare each one. Declaring 'carton' as a single item is the most common PPWR mistake we see.
Yes, and that is the point of holding the data once. The same per-layer composition generates the EU Declaration of Conformity under Articles 38 and 39 and exports to scheme formats such as Asekol and the Slovak MŽP register.
You record PFAS measurement per layer for food-contact packaging against the PPWR restriction thresholds. It sits with the rest of the material data rather than in a separate document nobody can find.
Material, recyclability and PFAS data behind one QR — before the February 2027 EPR identifier lands.