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Fourth Ordinance amending the Packaging Waste Ordinance.

Country/Territory
Germany
Document type
Regulation
Date
2005
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Bundesgesetzblatt, Part I, No. 1, 6 January 2006, pp. 2-5.
Subject
Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Waste disposal Packaging/labelling Waste management
Geographical area
Alps, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Western Europe
Abstract

The present Ordinance introduces some amendments to the Packaging Waste Ordinance (BGBl. I p. 1572). Inter alia, it rewords article 1 establishing that the present Ordinance aims at avoiding negative effects on the environment from packaging waste; it repeals paragraph 6 of article 3, and paragraph 6 of article 6; it rewords article 13, paragraph 1, concerning packaging and components of packaging; it repeals article 17; it adds Annex V dealing with criteria for definition of packaging according to article 3.

Full text
German

References - Legislation

Amends

Packaging Waste Ordinance.

Legislation | Germany | 1998 (2017)

Keyword: Pollution control, Waste disposal, Waste management, Recycling/reuse, Waste domestic sources, Waste non-domestic sources, Packaging/labelling, Internal trade, Enforcement/compliance, Offences/penalties

Source: FAO, FAOLEX