1. For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
(1) ‘packaging’ means an item, irrespective of the materials from which it is made, that is intended to be used by an economic operator for the containment, protection, handling, delivery or presentation of products to another economic operator or to an end user, and that can be differentiated by packaging format based on its function, material and design, including:
(a) an item that is necessary to contain, support or preserve a product throughout its lifetime, without being an integral part of the product, and which is intended to be used, consumed or disposed of together with the product;
(b) a component of,and ancillary element to, an item referred to in point (a) that is integrated into the item;
(c) an ancillary element to an item referred to in point (a) that is hung directly on, or attached to, the product and that performs a packaging function, without being an integral part of the product, and which is intended to be used, consumed or disposed of together with the product;
(d) an item that is designed and intended to be filled at the point of sale in order to dispense the product, which is also referred to as ‘service packaging’;
(e) a disposable item that is sold and filled or designed and intended to be filled at the point of sale and which performs a packaging function;
(f) a permeable tea, coffee or other beverage bag, or soft after-use system single-serve unit that contains tea, coffee or another beverage, and which is intended to be used and disposed of together with the product;
(53) Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/1999 (‘European Climate Law’) (OJ L 243,
9.7.2021, p. 1).
(g) a non-permeable tea, coffee or other beverage system single-serve unit intended for use in a machine and which is used and disposed of together with the product;
(2) ‘waste’ means waste as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2008/98/EC; reusable packaging sent to reconditioning is not considered to be waste;
(3) ‘take-away packaging’ means service packaging filled at attended points of sale with beverages or ready-prepared food that are packaged for transportation and immediate consumption at another location without the need for any further preparation and are typically consumed from the packaging;
(4) ‘primary production packaging’ means an item designed and intended to be used as packaging for unprocessed products from primary production as defined in Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (54);
(5) ‘sales packaging’ means packaging conceived so as to constitute a sales unit consisting of products and packaging to the end user at the point of sale;
(6) ‘grouped packaging’ means packaging conceived so as to constitute a grouping of a certain number of sales units at the point of sale, irrespective of whether that grouping of sales units is sold as such to the end user or whether it serves as a means to facilitate the restocking of shelves at the point of sale or to create a stock-keeping or distribution unit, and which can be removed from the product without affecting its characteristics;
(7) ‘transport packaging’ means packaging conceived so as to facilitate the handling and transport of one or more sales units or a grouping of sales units, in order to prevent damage to the product from handling and transport, but which excludes road, rail, ship and air containers;
(8) ‘e-commerce packaging’ means transport packaging used to deliver products in the context of sale online or through other means of distance sales to the end user;
(9) ‘making available on the market’ means any supply of packaging, whether empty or with a product, for distribution, consumption or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
(10) ‘placing on the market’ means the first making available of packaging, whether empty or with a product, on the Union market;
(11) ‘making available on the territory of the Member State’ means any supply of packaging, whether empty or with a product, for distribution, consumption or use on the territory of the Member State in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
(12) ‘economic operator’ means the manufacturer, the supplier, the importer, the distributor, the authorised representative, the final distributor and the fulfilment service provider;
(13) ‘manufacturer’ means any natural or legal person that manufactures packaging or a packaged product; however:
(a) subject to point (b), where a natural or legal person has packaging or a packaged product designed or manufactured under its own name or trademark, regardless of whether any other trademark is visible on the packaging or on the packaged product, ‘manufacturer’ means that natural or legal person;
(b) where the natural or legal person that has the packaging or packaged product designed or manufactured under its own name or trademark falls within the definition of micro-enterprise set out in Recommendation 2003/361/EC as applicable on 11 February 2025, and the natural or legal person that supplies the packaging to the natural or legal person that has the packaging designed or manufactured under its own name or trademark is located in the same Member State, ‘manufacturer’ means the natural or legal person that supplies the packaging;
(54) Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1).
(14) ‘distance contract’ means distance contract as defined in Article 2(7) of Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (55);
(15) ‘producer’ means any manufacturer, importer or distributor to whom, irrespective of the selling technique used, including by means of distance contracts, one of the following applies:
(a) the manufacturer, importer or distributor is established in a Member State and makes available for the first time from within the territory of that Member State and on that same territory transport packaging, service packaging, or primary production packaging, whether as single-use packaging or as reusable packaging; or
(b) the manufacturer, importer or distributor is established in a Member State and makes available for the first time from within the territory of that Member State and on that same territory products packaged in packaging other than those referred to in point (a); or
(c) the manufacturer, importer or distributor is established in a Member State or in a third country and makes available for the first time on the territory of another Member State, directly to end users, transport packaging, service packaging or primary production packaging, whether as single-use packaging or as reusable packaging; or
(d) the manufacturer, importer or distributor is established in a Member State or in a third country and makes available for the first time on the territory of another Member State, directly to end users, products packaged in packaging other than those referred to in point (c); or
(e) the manufacturer, importer or distributor is established in a Member State and unpacks packaged products without
being an end user, unless another person is the producer as defined in point (a), (b), (c) or (d);
(16) ‘supplier’ means any natural or legal person that supplies packaging or packaging material to a manufacturer;
(17) ‘importer’ means any natural or legal person established within the Union that places packaging from a third country on the market;
(18) ‘distributor’ means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or importer, that makes packaging available on the market;
(19) ‘authorised representative’ means any natural or legal person established in the Union that has received a written mandate from the manufacturer to act on that manufacturer’s behalf in relation to specified tasks with regard to the manufacturer’s obligations under this Regulation;
(20) ‘authorised representative for the extended producer responsibility’ means any natural or legal person established in the Member State where the producer makes packaging or packaged products available on the territory of the Member State for the first time, or where it unpacks packaged products without being an end user, other than the Member State or the third country where the producer is established, and that is appointed by the producer in accordance Article 8a(5), third subparagraph, of Directive 2008/98/EC to fulfil the obligations of that producer under Chapter VIII of this Regulation;
(21) ‘final distributor’ means the natural or legal person in the supply chain that delivers packaged products, including through re-use, or products that can be purchased through refill to the end user;
(22) ‘consumer’ means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside their trade, business or profession;
(23) ‘end user’ means any natural or legal person that resides or is established in the Union to whom a product has been made available either as a consumer or as a professional end user in the course of its industrial or professional activities, and that does not make that product further available on the market in the form supplied to it;
(55) Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on consumer rights, amending Council Directive 93/13/EEC and Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 85/577/EEC and Directive 97/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 304, 22.11.2011, p. 64).
(24) ‘composite packaging’ means a unit of packaging made of two or more different materials which are part of the weight of the main packaging material and cannot be separated manually and therefore form a single integral unit, unless one of the materials constitutes an insignificant part of the packaging unit and in any event no more than 5 % of the total mass of the packaging unit and excluding labels, varnishes, paints, inks, adhesives and lacquers; this is without prejudice to Directive (EU) 2019/904;
(25) ‘packaging waste’ means any packaging or packaging material that is waste, with the exception of production residues;
(26) ‘packaging waste prevention’ means measures that are taken before any packaging or packaging material has become packaging waste and that reduce the quantity of packaging waste, so that less or no packaging is required to contain, protect, handle, deliver or present products, including measures as regards the re-use of the packaging and measures to extend the life of the packaging before it becomes waste;
(27) ‘re-use’ means any operation by which reusable packaging is used again multiple times for the same purpose for which it was conceived;
(28) ‘single-use packaging’ means packaging which is not reusable packaging;
(29) ‘rotation’ means the cycle that reusable packaging accomplishes from the moment it is placed on the market together with the product it is intended to contain, protect, handle, deliver or present to the moment it is ready to be re-used within a re-use system with a view to it being supplied again to end users together with another product;
(30) ‘trip’ means the transfer of packaging, from filling or loading to emptying or unloading, as part of a rotation or on its own;
(31) ‘re-use system’ means the organisational, technical or financial arrangements, together with incentives, that allow re-use either in a closed loop or open loop system, such as a deposit and return system that ensures that packaging is collected for re-use;
(32) ‘reconditioning’ means any operation listed in Part B of Annex VI necessary to restore reusable packaging to a functional state for the purpose of its re-use;
(33) ‘refill’ means an operation by which a container that fulfils the packaging function, and that is either owned by the end user or purchased by the end user at the point of sale of the final distributor is filled by the end user or by the final distributor with one or several products purchased by the end user from the final distributor;
(34) ‘refill station’ means a place where a final distributor offers to end users products that can be purchased through refill;
(35) ‘HORECA sector’ means Accommodation and Food Service Activities according to NACE Rev. 2 – Statistical classification of economic activities;
(36) ‘sales area’ means the area dedicated to the display of goods offered for sale, to the payment for such goods, and to the circulation and presence of customers, but does not include the areas which are not open to the public, such as storage areas, or other areas where products are not displayed, such as car parks; in the context of e-commerce packaging, the storage and dispatch area is to be considered as sales area;
(37) ‘design for recycling’ means the design of packaging, including individual components of packaging, that ensures the recyclability of the packaging with established collection, sorting and recycling processes proven in an operational environment;
(38) ‘recyclability’ means the compatibility of packaging with the management and processing of waste by design, based on separate collection, sorting in separate streams, recycling at scale and the use of recycled materials to replace primary raw materials;
(39) ‘packaging waste recycled at scale’ means packaging waste which is collected separately, sorted and recycled in installed infrastructure, using established processes proven in an operational environment which ensure, at Union level, an annual quantity of recycled material under each packaging category listed in Table 2 of Annex II equal to or greater
than 30 % for wood and 55 % for all other materials; it includes packaging waste that is exported from the Union for the purpose of waste management and which can be considered to meet the requirements of Article 53(11);
(40) ‘material recycling’ means any recovery operation by which waste materials are reprocessed into materials or substances, whether for the original or other purposes, with the exception of biological treatment of waste, reprocessing of organic material, energy recovery and reprocessing into materials that are to be used as fuels or for backfilling operations;
(41) ‘high-quality recycling’ means any recycling process which produces recycled materials that are of equivalent quality to the original materials, based on preserved technical characteristics, and that are used as a substitute to primary raw materials for packaging or other applications where the quality of the recycled material is retained;
(42) ‘packaging category’ means a combination of material and specific packaging design which determines recyclability by reference to established state-of-the-art collection, sorting and recycling processes proven in an operational environment and which is relevant for the definition of the design for recycling criteria;
(43) ‘integrated component’ means a packaging component, whether or not of the same material as, or distinct from, the main body of the packaging unit, that is integral to the packaging unit and its functioning, that does not need to be separated from the main body of the packaging unit in order to ensure the functionality of the packaging unit and that is typically discarded at the same time as the main body of the packaging unit, although not necessarily via the same disposal route;
(44) ‘separate component’ means a packaging component, whether or not from the same material as the main body of the packaging unit, that is distinct from the main body of the packaging unit, that needs to be disassembled completely and permanently from the main body of the packaging unit and that is typically discarded prior to and separately from the main body of the packaging unit, including packaging components that can be separated from each other simply through mechanical stress during transportation or sorting;
(45) ‘unit of packaging’ means a unit, including any integrated or separate components, which as a whole serves a packaging function, such as the containment, protection, handling, delivery, storage, transport or presentation of products, and includes independent units of grouped or transport packaging where they are discarded prior to the point of sale;
(46) ‘innovative packaging’ means a form of packaging that is manufactured using new materials, resulting in a significant improvement in the functions of the packaging, such as the containment, protection, handling, or delivery of products, and in overall demonstrable environmental benefits, with the exception of packaging that is the result of
modification to existing packaging for the main purpose of improving the presentation of products and marketing;
(47) ‘secondary raw materials’ means materials that have undergone all necessary checking and sorting and been obtained through recycling processes and can substitute primary raw materials;
(48) ‘post-consumer plastic waste’ means waste that is plastic and that has been generated from plastic products that have been placed on the market or supplied for distribution, consumption or use in a third country in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
(49) ‘contact-sensitive packaging’ means packaging that is intended to be used for products falling within the scope of Regulations (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (56), (EC) No 1935/2004, (EC) No 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (57), (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (58), (EU) 2017/745, (EU) 2017/746, (EU) 2019/4 of the European Parliament and of the Council (59) or
(56) Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 on additives for use in animal nutrition (OJ L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 29).
(57) Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed,amending European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 and repealing Council Directive 79/373/EEC, Commission Directive 80/511/EEC, Council Directives 82/471/EEC, 83/228/EEC, 93/74/EEC, 93/113/EC and 96/25/EC and Commission Decision 2004/217/EC (OJ L 229, 1.9.2009, p. 1).
(58) Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on cosmetic products (OJ L 342, 22.12.2009, p. 59).
(59) Regulation (EU) 2019/4 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the manufacture, placing on the market and use of medicated feed, amending Regulation (EC) No 183/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 90/167/EEC (OJ L 4, 7.1.2019, p. 1).
(EU) 2019/6, or of Directives 2001/83/EC, 2002/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (60) or 2008/68/EC, or for products as defined in Articles 1 and 2 of Commission Decision (EU) 2023/1809 (61);
(50) ‘compostable packaging’ means packaging that biodegrades in industrially controlled conditions or that is capable of undergoing biological decomposition in such conditions, including through anaerobic digestion, but not necessarily in a home-composting environment, combined, if necessary, with physical treatment, resulting ultimately in the conversion of the packaging into carbon dioxide or, in the absence of oxygen, methane, and mineral salts, biomass and water, and that does not hinder or jeopardise the separate collection and the composting and anaerobic digestion process;
(51) ‘home compostable packaging’ means packaging that can biodegrade in non-controlled conditions that are not industrial-scale composting facilities and the composting process of which is performed by private individuals with the aim of producing compost for their own use;
(52) ‘plastic’ means a material consisting of a polymer within the meaning of Article 3, point (5), of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, to which additives or other substances may have been added, and which is capable of functioning as a main structural component of packaging, with the exception of natural polymers that have not been chemically modified;
(53) ‘biobased plastics’ means plastics made from biological resources, such as biomass feedstock, organic waste or by-products, and irrespective of whether the plastics are biodegradable or non-biodegradable;
(54) ‘single-use plastic beverage bottles’ means beverage bottles listed in Part F of the Annex to Directive (EU) 2019/904;
(55) ‘plastic carrier bags’ means carrier bags, with or without a handle, made of plastic, which are supplied to consumers at the point of sale of products;
(56) ‘lightweight plastic carrier bags’ means plastic carrier bags with a wall thickness below 50 microns;
(57) ‘very lightweight plastic carrier bags’ means plastic carrier bags with a wall thickness below 15 microns;
(58) ‘thick plastic carrier bags’ means plastic carrier bags with a wall thickness between 50 and 99 microns;
(59) ‘very thick plastic carrier bags’ means plastic carrier bags with a wall thickness above 99 microns;
(60) ‘waste receptacles’ means receptacles used to store and collect waste, for example containers, binsandbags;
(61) ‘deposit’ means a defined sum of money, not being part of the price of a packaged or filled product that is collected from the end user when purchasing such packaged or filled product, covered by a deposit and return system in a given Member State and redeemable when the end user or any other person returns the deposit bearing packaging to a collection point established for that purpose;
(62) ‘deposit and return system’ means a system in which a deposit is charged to the end user when purchasing a packaged or filled product covered by that system, and redeemed when the deposit bearing packaging is returned through one of the collection channels that are authorised for that purpose by the national authorities;
(63) ‘technical specification’ means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by a product, process or service;
(64) ‘harmonised standard’ means a standard as defined in Article 2(1), point (c), of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;
(60) Directive 2002/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 June 2002 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to food supplements (OJ L 183, 12.7.2002, p. 51).
(61) Commission Decision (EU) 2023/1809 of 14 September 2023 establishing the EU Ecolabel criteria for absorbent hygiene products and for reusable menstrual cups (OJ L 234, 22.9.2023, p. 142).
(65) ‘conformity assessment’ means the process demonstrating whether the sustainability, safety, labelling and information requirements of this Regulation relating to packaging have been fulfilled;
(66) ‘producer responsibility organisation’ means a legal entity that financially or financially and operationally organises the fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of several producers;
(67) ‘life-cycle’ means the consecutive and interlinked stages of the life of packaging, consisting of raw material acquisition or generation from natural resources, pre-processing, manufacturing, storage, distribution, use, repair, re-use and end-of-life;
(68) ‘packaging presenting a risk’ means packaging that, by not complying with a requirement set out in or pursuant to this Regulation other than those requirements listed in Article 62(1), could adversely affect the environment, health or other public interests protected by that requirement;
(69) ‘packaging presenting a serious risk’ means packaging presenting a risk for which, based on an assessment, the degree of the relevant non-compliance or the associated harm is considered to require rapid intervention by the market surveillance authorities, including cases where the effects of the non-compliance are not immediate;
(70) ‘online platform’ means online platform as defined in Article 3, point (i), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065;
(71) ‘public contracts’ means public contracts as defined in Article 2, point (5),of Directive 2014/24/EU or as referred to in Directive 2014/25/EU, as applicable.
The definitions of ‘waste management’, ‘collection’, ‘separate collection’, ‘treatment’, ‘preparing for re-use’, ‘recycling’ and ‘extended producer responsibility scheme’ in Article 3, points (9), (10), (11), (14), (16), (17) and (21), respectively, of Directive 2008/98/EC apply.
The definitions of ‘market surveillance’, ‘market surveillance authority’, ‘fulfilment service provider’, ‘corrective action’, ‘risk’, ‘recall’ and ‘withdrawal’ in Article 3, points (3), (4), (11), (16), (18), (22) and (23), respectively, of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 apply.
The definitions of ‘substance of concern’ and ‘data carrier’ in Article 2, points (27) and (29), respectively, of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 apply.
1. 为本条例之目的，适用以下定义：
(1) “包装”指无论由何种材料制成，经济运营者为容纳、保护、搬运、交付或向另一经济运营者或最终用户 展示产品而使用的物品，且可根据其功能、材料和设计通过包装形式加以区分，包括：
(a) 一种在产品整个生命周期内用于包含、支撑或保护产品的物品，但非产品的组成部分，且旨在与产品 一同使用、消耗或处置；
(b) 指(a)项所述物品的组成部分及辅助元素，该辅助元素被整合于该物品中；
(c) 指(a)项所述物品的辅助元素，该元素直接悬挂于产品上或附着于产品，执行包装功能，但非产品的组成 部分，且旨在与产品一同使用、消耗或处置；
(d) 一种设计并旨在销售点填充以便分配产品的物品，亦称“服务包装”；
(e) 一种一次性物品，在销售点销售并填充，或设计并旨在销售点填充，且执行包装功能；
(f) 一种可渗透的茶包、咖啡包或其他饮料袋，或软质使用后系统单份装，内含茶、咖啡或其他饮料，且旨 在与产品一同使用并处置；
(53 )欧洲议会和理事会2021年6月30日第（欧盟） 2021/1119号条例，确立实现气候中和的框架，并修订条例（EC）第401/ 2009号及（欧盟） 2018/1999号（‘欧洲气候法’）（欧盟官方公报 L 243 ，2021年7月9日，第1页）。
(g) 一种非可渗透的茶包、咖啡包或其他饮料系统单份装，旨在机器中使用，且与产品一同使用并处置；
(2) “废弃物”指指令2008/98/EC第3条第1款中定义的废弃物；送往再加工的可重复使用的包装不应视为废弃物 ;
(3) “外带包装”指在有人值守的销售点装填饮料或即食食品的服务包装，该包装用于运输并在其他地点立即 消费，无需任何进一步加工，且通常直接从包装中食用；
(4) “初级生产包装”指设计并用于作为欧洲议会和理事会条例（EC）第178/2002号（54）中定义的初级生产未 加工产品的包装的物品；
(5) “销售用包装”指构成销售单位的包装，该销售单位由产品及其包装组成，面向最终用户在销售点销售；
(6) “组合包装”指构成一定数量销售单位组合的包装，无论该销售单位组合是否作为整体销售给最终用户， 或是否用于便于销售点货架补货或创建库存或分销单位，且该包装可从产品上移除而不影响其特性；
(7) “运输包装”指为便于一个或多个销售单位或销售单位组合的搬运和运输而设计的包装，以防止产品在搬 运和运输过程中受损，但不包括公路、铁路、船舶及航空集装箱；
(8) “电子商务包装”指用于通过在线销售或其他远程销售方式向最终用户交付产品的运输包装；
(9) “在联盟市场上供应”指在商业活动过程中，无论有偿或无偿，供应空包装或含产品包装以供分销、消费 或使用；
(10) “投放联盟市场”指首次在联盟市场上供应空包装或含产品包装；
(11) “在成员国境内供应”指在商业活动过程中，无论有偿或无偿，供应空包装或含产品包装以供在成员国境 内分销、消费或使用；
(12) “经济经营者”指制造商、供应商、进口商、分销商、授权代表、最终分销商及履约服务提供者；
(13) “制造商”指任何制造包装或包装产品的自然人或法人；但：
(a) 根据(b)项规定，若自然人或法人以其自身名称或商标设计或制造包装或包装产品，无论包装或包装产 品上是否显示其他商标，“制造商”指该自然人或法人；
(b) 若以自身名称或商标设计或制造包装或包装产品的自然人或法人符合2025年2月11日适用的2003/361/E C号建议中微型企业的定义，且向该自然人或法人供应包装的自然人或法人位于同一成员国，则“制造 商”指供应包装的自然人或法人；
(54 )欧洲议会和理事会2002年1月28日第（EC） 178/2002号条例，确立食品法的一般原则和要求，设立欧洲食品安全局， 并规定食品安全事项的程序（欧盟官方公报 L 31 ，2002年2月1日，第1页）。
(14) “远程合同”指欧洲议会和理事会2011/83/EU号指令第2条第7款中定义的远程合同（55）；
(15) “生产者”指任何制造商、进口商或分销商，无论采用何种销售方式，包括通过远程合同，符合以下任一 条件者：
(a) 制造商、进口商或分销商在成员国内设立，并首次在该成员国境内及同一境内提供运输包装、服务包 装或初级生产包装，无论是一次性包装还是可重复使用的包装；或
(b) 制造商、进口商或分销商设立于成员国境内，并首次在该成员国境内及同一领土上提供除第(a)点所述 包装以外的包装产品；或
(c) 制造商、进口商或分销商设立于成员国或第三国，并首次在另一成员国境内直接向最终用户提供运输包 装、服务包装或初级生产包装，无论为一次性包装还是可重复使用的包装；或
(d) 制造商、进口商或分销商设立于成员国或第三国，并首次在另一成员国境内直接向最终用户提供除第(c )点所述包装以外的包装产品；或
(e) 制造商、进口商或分销商设立于成员国，且非最终用户身份拆封包装产品，除非另一人系第(a)、(b)、(c) 或(d)点所定义的生产者；
(16) “供应商”指向制造商供应包装或包装材料的任何自然人或法人；
(17) “进口商”指在欧盟境内设立的，将来自第三国的包装投放市场的任何自然人或法人；
(18) “分销商”指供应链中除制造商或进口商之外，使包装在市场上可获得的任何自然人或法人；
(19) “授权代表”指在欧盟境内设立的，已收到制造商书面授权，代表制造商就其根据本条例承担的特定义务 执行相关任务的任何自然人或法人；
(20) “延伸生产者责任授权代表”指在生产者首次在成员国境内投放包装或包装产品，或非最终用户身份拆封 包装产品的成员国设立的任何自然人或法人（该成员国非生产者设立地所在成员国或第三国），且由生产 者根据指令2008/98/EC第8a条第5款第三段任命，以履行该生产者根据本条例第八章承担的义务；
(21) “最终分销商”指供应链中向最终用户交付包装产品（包括通过重复使用）或可通过补充购买的产品的自 然人或法人；
(22) “消费者”指为其贸易、业务或职业以外目的行事的任何自然人；
(23) “最终用户”指居住或设立于欧盟境内的任何自然人或法人，该等自然人或法人作为消费者或在其工业或 专业活动过程中作为专业最终用户获得产品，且不以其所获得的形式将该产品进一步投放市场；
(55 )欧洲议会和理事会于2011年10月25日通过的2011/83/EU号指令，关于消费者权益，修订理事会指令93/13/EEC及欧洲议 会和理事会指令1999/44/EC，废止理事会指令85/577/EEC及欧洲议会和理事会指令97/7/EC （欧盟官方公报 L 304 ，2011 年11月22日，第64页）。
(24) “复合包装”指由两种或两种以上不同材料组成的包装单元，这些材料构成主要包装材料重量的一部分， 且无法手工分离，因此形成一个整体单元，除非其中一种材料构成包装单元中微不足道的部分，且无论如 何不超过包装单元总质量的5%，且不包括标签、清漆、油漆、油墨、粘合剂和涂层；此规定不影响第( 欧盟） 2019/904号指令；
(25) “包装废弃物”指任何作为废弃物的包装或包装材料，但生产残余物除外；
(26) “包装废弃物预防”指在任何包装或包装材料成为包装废弃物之前采取的措施，旨在减少包装废弃物的数 量，从而减少或无需包装以包含、保护、处理、运输或展示产品，包括关于包装再利用的措施以及延长包 装在成为废弃物之前使用寿命的措施；
(27) “再利用”指通过可重复使用的包装多次用于其设计的相同目的的任何操作；
(28) “一次性包装”指非可重复使用的包装；
(29) “循环”指可重复使用的包装自与其所含、保护、搬运、交付或展示的产品一同投放市场之日起，至其准 备在再利用体系内再次使用并与另一产品一同供应给最终用户之时所完成的周期；
(30) “行程”指包装作为循环的一部分或单独，从灌装或装载到清空或卸载的转移过程；
(31) “再利用体系”指允许在闭环或开放式体系中进行再利用的组织、技术或财务安排及激励措施，例如确保 包装被收集以供再利用的押金返还系统；
(32) “再处理”指附录VI B部分列明的任何操作，旨在将可重复使用的包装恢复至其功能状态，以便重新使用 ;
(33) “补充装填”指最终用户拥有或在最终分销商销售点购买的、履行包装功能的容器，由最终用户或最终分 销商使用最终用户从最终分销商处购买的一种或多种产品进行填充的操作；
(34) “补充装填站”指最终分销商向最终用户提供可通过补充装填购买产品的场所；
(35) “HORECA部门”指根据NACE Rev. 2——经济活动统计分类中的住宿和餐饮服务活动；
(36) “销售区域”指用于展示待售商品、支付商品费用以及顾客流通和停留的区域，但不包括非对公众开放的 区域，如储藏区，或未展示产品的其他区域，如停车场；在电子商务包装的情境下，储存和发货区域应视 为销售区域；
(37) “为回收设计”指包装的设计，包括包装的各个组成部分，确保包装在运行环境中经验证的既定收集、分 类和回收流程下具备可回收性；
(38) “可回收性”指包装通过设计与废弃物管理和处理的兼容性，基于单独收集、分流分类、大规模回收以及 使用再生材料替代初级原材料的能力；
(39) “大规模回收的包装废弃物”指通过单独收集、分类，并在已安装的基础设施中使用运行环境中经验证的 既定流程进行回收的包装废弃物，确保在联盟层面，每种包装类别（见附件II表2）下的年回收材料数量达 到或超过
木材为30%，其他所有材料为55%； 包括为废弃物管理目的而从联盟出口的包装废弃物，且可视为符合第 53条第11款的要求；
(40) “材料回收”指任何将废弃物材料重新加工为材料或物质的回收作业，无论用于原始目的或其他目的，但 不包括废弃物的生物处理、有机物质的再加工、能量回收及将材料再加工用于燃料或回填作业；
(41) “高质量回收”指任何产生与原材料技术特性等同的再生材料的回收过程，该再生材料作为包装或其他应 用中初级原材料的替代品使用，且保持再生材料的质量；
(42) “包装类别”指材料与特定包装设计的组合，该组合通过参考在运行环境中经验证的先进收集、分拣及回 收工艺确定可回收性，并与可回收设计标准的定义相关；
(43) “一体化组成部分”指包装组成部分，无论其材质是否与包装单元主体相同或不同，该组成部分为包装单 元及其功能的整体部分，无需从包装单元主体分离即可确保包装单元的功能，且通常与包装单元主体同时 丢弃，尽管不一定通过相同的处置途径。
(44) “分离组成部分”指包装组成部分，无论其材质是否与包装单元主体相同，该组成部分与包装单元主体不 同，需完全且永久地从包装单元主体拆卸，且通常在包装单元主体之前单独丢弃，包括在运输或分拣过程 中仅通过机械应力即可相互分离的包装组成部分。
(45) “包装单位”指包括任何集成或分离组件在内的单位，整体上具有包装功能，如产品的容纳、保护、搬运 、交付、储存、运输或展示，并包括在销售点之前被丢弃的组合包装或运输包装的独立单位；
(46) “创新包装”指采用新材料制造的包装形式，显著改善包装的功能，如产品的容纳、保护、搬运或交付， 并在整体上体现出可证明的环境效益，但不包括为主要改善产品展示和营销而对现有包装进行修改所产生 的包装；
(47) “二次原材料”指经过所有必要的检查和分类，通过回收工艺获得的材料，可替代初级原材料；
(48) “消费后塑料废弃物”指在商业活动过程中产生的塑料废弃物，该塑料废弃物来源于已投放市场或供应用 于第三国分销、消费或使用的塑料产品，无论是否有偿或无偿；
(49) “接触敏感型包装”指旨在用于符合欧洲议会和理事会条例（EC）第1831/2003号（56）、（EC）第1935/2 004号、欧洲议会和理事会条例（EC）第767/2009号（57）、欧洲议会和理事会条例（EC）第1223/2009号
（58）、（EU） 2017/745、（EU） 2017/746及欧洲议会和理事会条例（EU）第2019/4号（59）范围内产品 的包装，或
(56 )欧洲议会和理事会于2003年9月22日颁布的关于用于动物营养添加剂的条例（EC）第1831/2003号（欧盟官方公报 L 26 8 ，2003年10月18日，第29页）。
(57 )欧洲议会和理事会于2009年7月13日通过的第（EC） 767/2009号条例，关于饲料的投放市场和使用，修订了欧洲议会 和理事会第（EC） 1831/2003号条例，废止了理事会第79/373/EEC号指令、委员会第80/511/EEC号指令、理事会第82/4 71/EEC号指令、第83/228/EEC号指令、第93/74/EEC号指令、第93/113/EC号指令及第96/25/EC号指令，以及委员会第20 04/217/EC号决定（欧盟官方公报 L 229 ，2009年9月1日，第1页）。
(58 )欧洲议会和理事会于2009年11月30日通过的第（EC） 1223/2009号条例，关于化妆品（欧盟官方公报 L 342 ，2009年1 2月22日，第59页）。
59 )欧洲议会和理事会2019年12月11日第（欧盟） 2019/4号条例，关于药用饲料的制造、投放市场及使用，修订欧洲议会 和理事会第（EC） 183/2005号条例，废止理事会第90/167/EEC号指令（欧盟官方公报 L 4 ，2019年1月7日，第1页）。
（欧盟） 2019/6号，或欧洲议会和理事会第2001/83/EC号、第2002/46/EC号指令（60），或第2008/68/EC号
指令，或委员会决定（欧盟） 2023/1809号第1条和第2条所定义的产品（61）；
（50）“可堆肥包装”指在工业控制条件下可生物降解的包装，或能够在该等条件下进行生物分解的包装，包 括通过厌氧消化，但不一定适用于家庭堆肥环境，必要时结合物理处理，最终将包装转化为二氧化碳，或 在缺氧条件下转化为甲烷、矿物盐、生物质及水，且不妨碍或危害分开收集及堆肥和厌氧消化过程；
(51) “家庭可堆肥包装”指能够在非工业规模堆肥设施的非受控条件下生物降解的包装，其堆肥过程由私人个 人进行，旨在为其自身使用生产堆肥；
(52) “塑料”指根据条例（EC）第1907/2006号第3条第（5）点定义的聚合物材料，该材料可能添加了添加剂 或其他物质，且能够作为包装的主要结构成分，但不包括未经化学改性的天然聚合物；
(53) “生物基塑料”指由生物资源制成的塑料，如生物质原料、有机废弃物或副产品，无论该塑料是否可生物 降解；
(54) “一次性塑料饮料瓶”指列于指令（欧盟） 2019/904号附件F部分的饮料瓶；
(55) “塑料购物袋”指在产品销售点向消费者提供的、有无手柄的塑料制购物袋；
(56) “轻质塑料购物袋”指壁厚低于50微米的塑料购物袋；
(57) “超轻质塑料购物袋”指壁厚低于15微米的塑料购物袋；
(58) “厚塑料购物袋”指壁厚介于50至99微米之间的塑料购物袋；
(59) “超厚塑料购物袋”指壁厚超过99微米的塑料购物袋；
(60) “废弃物容器”指用于存储和收集废弃物的容器，例如箱、桶和袋；
(61) “押金”指在某成员国押金返还系统中，购买包装或填充产品时从最终用户收取的、非该产品价格组成部 分的特定金额，该金额可在最终用户或任何其他人将带有押金标识的包装退还至专门设立的收集点时予以 退还；
(62) “押金返还系统”指在购买该系统涵盖的包装或装填产品时向最终用户收取押金，并在通过国家当局授权 的回收渠道之一退还带押金的包装时予以退还的系统；
(63) “技术规范”指规定产品、工艺或服务应满足的技术要求的文件；
(64) “协调标准”指《条例》（欧盟） 2012年第1025号第2条第1款(c)项中定义的标准；
(60 )欧洲议会和理事会于2002年6月10日通过的关于成员国食品补充剂法律协调的第2002/46/EC号指令（欧盟官方公报 L 18 3 ，2002年7月12日，第51页）。
(61 )委员会于2023年9月14日发布的第（欧盟） 2023/1809号决定，确立吸收性卫生产品及可重复使用月经杯的欧盟生态标 签标准（欧盟官方公报 L 234 ，2023年9月22日，第142页）。
(65) “合格评定”指证明本条例关于包装的可持续性、安全性、标签及信息要求是否已得到满足的过程；
(66) “生产者责任组织”指代表多个生产者，在财务或财务与运营层面组织履行生产者延伸责任义务的法人实 体；
(67) “生命周期”指包装从原材料获取或自然资源生成、预处理、制造、储存、分销、使用、修理、再使用直 至报废的连续且相互关联的阶段；
(68) “存在风险的包装”指未遵守本条例或依据本条例制定的要求（第62条第1款所列要求除外），可能对环 境、健康或该要求所保护的其他公共利益产生不利影响的包装；
(69) “存在严重风险的包装”指经评估后认为相关不合规程度或相关危害需市场监管机构迅速干预的存在风险 的包装，包括不合规影响非即时显现的情形；
（70）“在线平台”指《条例（欧盟） 2022/2065》第3条第(i)项所定义的在线平台；
（71）“公共合同”指《指令2014/24/EU》第2条第(5)项所定义的公共合同，或在适用情况下指《指令2014/25 /EU》中提及的公共合同。
《指令2008/98/EC》第3条第(9)、(10)、(11)、(14)、(16)、(17)及(21)项中分别对“废弃物管理”、“收集”、“ 分类收集”、“处理”、“准备再使用”、“回收”及“生产者延伸责任计划”的定义适用。
《条例（欧盟） 2019/1020》第3条第(3)、(4)、(11)、(16)、(18)、(22)及(23)项中分别对“市场监管”、“市场监 管机构”、“履约服务提供者”、“纠正措施”、“风险”、“召回”及“撤回”的定义适用。
《条例》（欧盟） 2024/1781第2条第（27）项和第（29）项中‘关注物质’与‘数据载体’的定义适用。
2. An indicative list of items falling within the definition of packaging in paragraph 1, first subparagraph, point (1) of this Article, is set out in Annex I.
2. 本条第1款第一段第（1）项中包装定义所涵盖项目的指示性清单载于附件I。