The packaging regulation, made simple.
PPWR replaces the old packaging directive with rules that apply directly in every member state. This is a working reference for packaging and compliance teams: what each requirement means, when it bites, and where your products stand today.
Free to use, no account, nothing to install — the guide runs entirely in your browser.
Where teams usually start
- 01
Know your portfolio
List every packaging item by material, function and market, and fix your role for each.
- 02
Find the hard deadlines
Design changes take years. Recyclability, recycled content and labelling drive the plan.
- 03
Check product by product
Run each pack through the check and turn the gaps into owned actions.
Three ways to put it to work
Once the shape of the regulation is clear, these are the screens you'll use most: read a topic in depth, follow a deadline, or check a product of your own.
What's in here
A quick sense of the coverage you have to hand — and what comes up next.
- Topics covered
- 14
- Dated obligations
- 24
- Next milestone
- 12 February 2027
Status of this tool
A guide to the rules, not an accreditation of you.
The regulation itself runs to seventy-one articles, annexes and a set of delegated acts still to come. This site is an attempt to make that readable, so a team with no dedicated lawyer can work out what to do next. It makes no judgement about whether you comply, and it has no standing to make one.
What this does
- Puts Regulation (EU) 2025/40 into plain language, with the article shown for each point.
- Shows which obligations fall on your role in the chain, and the date each one lands.
- Turns your own answers about one product into a list of things to check, fix or chase.
What this does not do
- It does not accredit, approve, audit or certify you, your company or your packaging.
- It does not issue a certificate, report or mark you can present as evidence of compliance.
- It does not decide disputes, and it is not legal advice.
For a binding answer, go to the text in the Official Journal, the delegated and implementing acts as they are published, and your own legal adviser or the competent authority in each market you sell in.