PPWR
The regulation, broken down into 16 measures.
Eight deadline stages from August 2026 to 2040 — every measure with its status, its owner and the module where you get it done.
- Regulation
- PPWR (EU) 2025/40
- Date of application
- 12 August 2026
- Deadline stages
- 8, through 2038/2040
- Measures
- 16
Those placing on the market
You need to know what applies to your range from 12 August 2026.
Compliance & quality
You need a picture that shows what is done and what is still open.
Consultants & law firms
You get your clients’ open questions in one bundle instead of one email at a time.
Ausgangslage
The regulation does not tell you what to do on Monday
The PPWR applies directly in every member state — there is no national implementing act left to wait for. The text names duties and deadlines, but no order of play, no ownership and no list of evidence.
- The deadlines are spread across articles and annexes — 12 August 2026 is only the date of application, many detailed values do not bite until 2030.
- Who inside the company supplies which figure is written nowhere: data sheets sit with the supplier, weights with logistics, claims with marketing.
- Open legal questions pile up in email threads instead of arriving at the law firm in one bundle.
Zeitachse
What applies when — and why the date of application is not the end
The roadmap carries eight deadline stages; these four span the arc. In between sit labelling and penalties (2027), the producer register (2027), packaging minimisation (2028) and harmonised labelling (2028). Anything due in less than a year is marked “Due soon”, a missed date turns into a red “Overdue”.
11 February 2025
Entry into force
Twenty days after publication in the Official Journal (Art. 71). As a regulation, the PPWR applies directly — without a national implementing act.
12 August 2026
Date of application
The bulk of the regulation bites and Directive 94/62/EC is repealed. From here on, packaging may only be placed on the market if it complies with the PPWR (Art. 4(1)). Six measures hang on this date.
1 January 2030
The core stage
Recyclability by class, minimum recycled content, the empty-space ratio and packaging minimisation take effect (Art. 6, 7, 10, 24) — subject to the legal acts still to be adopted on each.
1 January 2038
Class A or B only
Packaging in recyclability class C loses market access (Art. 6(3)); two years later the tightened recycled-content stage follows (Art. 7(2)) — lead times that belong in the material decisions you make today.
What matters most
Four views of the same set of duties
The timeline is only the first tab. “Duties by actor” places you as producer or manufacturer through four questions and marks what does not apply to you. “Packaging materials” lists your materials with their recyclability and class. “Legal questions” collects what you cannot decide yourself and sends it to your law firm — instead of leaving it as quiet uncertainty in a checklist. A click on a measure opens action steps, the documents required and your notes; four of the 16 link straight into the module that does the work.
Im Zusammenspiel
Ein Datenbestand, der weiterreicht
01
Compliance roadmap
orders the duties and sets the dates
Task status · Deadline · Owner
02
Supplier requests
fetches the evidence a task calls for
Material data sheet · Lab analysis · Certificate
03
DoC generator
turns it into the declaration of conformity
Declaration of conformity
Frequently asked questions
Where do the deadlines in the roadmap come from?
From the text of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — eight stages from general application in 2026 to the tightening in 2038 and 2040. Many detailed duties additionally depend on legal acts that have not yet been adopted; the roadmap therefore names the date and the article, not a guarantee.
What do the five statuses mean?
Open, In progress, Information needed, Use tool and Done. You advance them by clicking the icon. The state is saved and is there again next time you open it — as are ticked action steps, stored contacts and notes.
Does Reguly calculate my status automatically?
No. You set the status yourself per measure. Reguly derives the overall progress from it, shows the count per deadline stage and highlights whatever falls due in less than a year.
What happens to the legal questions?
You store your law firm’s contact details and your questions, then send them individually or in one bundle. The reply lands on the item together with its attachments, after which you mark it as resolved. The legal assessment stays where it belongs.
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Know what comes first
Five questions show you which PPWR duties apply to you and which deadline arrives first — free and without signing up.