SUPD
Directive (EU) 2019/904 — Reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment
Topic : Packaging · Level : Regional
Today
In force. 25% recycled PET in bottles from 2025; tethered caps since Jul 2024; 30% recycled content and 90% collection by 2029-30.
Summary
The SUPD bans some single-use plastic items and sets design, marking and recycled-content rules for others. Bottles need 25% recycled PET from 2025 and 30% recycled plastic from 2030.
Who is concerned
- Turnover
- non précisé
- Employees
- non précisé
- Listed company
- non précisé
- Sectors
- Beverage bottles
- Food containers, cups
- Tobacco filters, wet wipes
- Fishing gear
- Triggering activities
- Placing listed SUP items on the EU market
- Selling beverages in plastic bottles
- Importing banned items (straws, cutlery)
- Extraterritorial reach
- Yes
Product bans and design rules apply to imports; foreign makers must meet cap, marking and recycled-content rules.
- Examples
- Chinese maker of disposable tableware
- Beverage brand bottling for the EU
- Importer of wet wipes and sanitary items
What the law requires
- Stop placing banned items (cutlery, plates, straws, EPS cups) on the market
- Attach caps to bottles up to 3 litres
- Meet recycled-content shares in PET and plastic bottles
- Apply harmonised marking and finance EPR clean-up costs
Penalties
Set by Member States (Art. 14); must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.
What this changes for a supplier in China
Chinese makers of disposable items lose EU market for banned products. Bottle and cap makers must prove tethered design and recycled content.
Expected evidence
- Material declaration (plastic vs alternative)
- Recycled content certificate (rPET)
- Marking artwork per Reg. 2020/2151
Tiers : Tier 1