Legislative & Prenormative actions

This deliverable (D7.7), prepared within the WP7: “Pre-normative studies, dissemination,
communication, and exploitation”, offers a panoramic description of the legislative context as
well as the standardization landscape for multilayer plastic films.
The first section (PART A) of this deliverable addresses the EU directives and National plans in
particular in France, Spain, the Netherlands and Finland, having impacts on multilayer films
circularity, from their design to their end-of-life management and recycling. This includes offer
and demand, business models, regulation through tax, EU & National drivers, etc...
The report covers legislative texts which are not legally binding (i.e. Communications and
Recommendations), as well as those that are (i.e. Directives and Regulations).
A second section (PART B) collects information on the standardization landscape and needs for
updated or new standards to achieve circularity of multilayer films, supported by the CIMPA
partners involved in technical standardisation committees. As a result, this deliverable includes
a list of standards and technical bodies, with recommendations on actions about them.
CIMPA project is focused on multilayer films from food and agricultural applications, thus, the
legislation on the packaging and agriculture plastic sector are analyzed in this document.
However, being the packaging sector the largest plastic end-use market, and due to the growing
generation of packaging waste, more policy, legislation, and standardization initiatives are
found for the packaging than agriculture sector.
This document will be reviewed and updated including the developments of legislative actions
and standards. A final report on legislative and pre-normative actions, with recommendations
for legislative revisions and updated or new standards will be produced by M35.