About the tool

An independent screening of your packaging against the actual regulation.

PPWR Obligations reads your packaging profile and maps it to the specific articles, thresholds and deadlines of the EU Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation — Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — that apply to you. Every point names the article it comes from, so you can check the source text yourself.

What this is

The regulation runs to well over a hundred articles and a dozen annexes, and most of it will not apply to any given business. PPWR Obligations exists to answer one question quickly and precisely: of everything in Regulation (EU) 2025/40, which obligations actually land on your packaging — and by when?

You describe your role, whether your brand appears on the pack, the member states you sell into, and each distinct packaging type you place on the market. A rules engine screens those answers against the regulation and returns a report of the obligations that appear to apply — recyclability grade, minimum recycled content, minimisation, reuse and refill, restricted substances and PFAS, single-use restrictions, labelling, and extended-producer-responsibility registration — each cited to its article, each with its deadline. The report also includes ready-to-send supplier request letters so you can start collecting the documentation the same day.

Who it's for

Anyone who places packaging on the EU market and needs to know what PPWR requires of them:

Producers and manufacturers of packaging or packaged goods.
Brand owners and fillers — especially those whose name or trademark appears on packaging a contract packer makes for them (see the Article 21 point below).
Importers bringing packaged goods into the EU.
Distributors making packaging available on the market.
Non-EU sellers — online sellers and marketplaces placing packaging on the EU market who need to understand when an authorised representative or EPR registration is required.

The honest framing

This matters, so we state it plainly. PPWR Obligations produces a screening — a fast, cited map of what appears to apply to packaging like yours, based on the answers you give. It is built to go in your compliance file as documented diligence and to point your team at the right articles first.

It is not legal advice, and it is not an official conformity assessment, recyclability grading, or certification. It does not create a professional-client relationship, and it cannot substitute for advice from a qualified adviser or a measurement from an accredited lab. Anything you act on — and anything the report flags as an apparent gap — should be confirmed with counsel or an accredited body.

PPWR Obligations is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the European Union, the European Commission, or any national authority or compliance scheme. We cite Regulation (EU) 2025/40 and official guidance as public sources so that you can verify every point for yourself.

Why "cited to the article" is the whole point. A screening you can't check is just an opinion. Every obligation in your report names its article (Art. 6, Art. 7, Annex V…) so you — or your compliance team, or your counsel — can open the source text in EUR-Lex and read it in a minute.