Nothing here is asserted. Everything is cited.
Compliance decisions get audited. Every requirement, figure and date on this site carries the same evidence block, so you can hand it to a lawyer, a customer or an authority without re-doing the work.
- Primary source
- EUR-Lex 32025R0040
- Instruments tracked
- 9
- Review cadence
- Monthly + on event
- Last full review
- 2026-08-16
- Open revisions
- 3
Anatomy of an evidence block.
It appears under every regulatory claim on the site. Five parts, each one there because someone eventually asks for it.
“All packaging shall be recyclable. Packaging shall be considered recyclable where it complies with the design for recycling criteria … and, from 1 January 2035, where it is recycled at scale.”
Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — Article 6(1), (4) a
- Legal basis b
- Art. 6 + Annex II
- Instrument
- Regulation (EU) 2025/40
- Effective date c
- 2030-01-01
- In force since
- 2025-02-11
- Last reviewed d
- 2026-08-16
- Revision
- r4 — DfR act pending
against official text View on EUR-Lex ↗ Change history e
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a
The article, quoted
Not paraphrased. The operative sentence from the official text, with the article and paragraph it comes from.
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b
Legal basis
Which article and annex create the obligation, including the implementing or delegated act that will define the detail.
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c
Effective date, separated from entry into force
The regulation has been in force since 2025. Most obligations are not. Conflating the two is the most common error in PPWR coverage, and we never do it.
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d
Last reviewed
A human checked this entry against the current consolidated text on this date. Stale entries are flagged, not hidden.
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e
Change history
Corrigenda, new guidance and standards are recorded as revisions, so you can see what moved since you last quoted it.
What counts as a source, and in what order.
PPWR is a regulation plus a growing stack of secondary law, standards and national measures. When they disagree, the order matters.
The hierarchy we apply
- The regulation itself — the consolidated text of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on EUR-Lex, including corrigenda.
- Delegated and implementing acts — binding once adopted, and the place where most operational detail actually lives.
- Harmonised standards — confer presumption of conformity where cited in the Official Journal.
- Commission guidance and FAQ — persuasive, not binding. Labelled as such.
- Member State measures — where national implementation adds duties beyond the regulation, marked with the market it applies to.
What we do not do
- We do not cite press coverage, consultancy summaries or trade-association explainers as the source of a figure.
- We do not present a draft act as if it were adopted. Drafts carry a status chip and a consultation deadline.
- We do not silently update a number. Changed figures get a revision entry.
- We do not give legal advice. We tell you what the text says and where to read it.
Some obligations depend on acts that have not been adopted — recyclability grading is the clearest case. Where that is true, the entry says so instead of quoting a number that might move. An honest gap is more useful than a confident guess.
The instruments we track, and their status today.
Nine instruments currently drive what PPWR compliance means in practice. Three of them do not exist yet, which is itself the most important thing on this page.
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