Sources

We cite public sources so you can verify.

Every obligation in your report traces back to a document anyone can read. Here are the authorities the report draws on, with links, so you can check any point against the source text yourself.

Primary law

Regulation (EU) 2025/40, the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR): The regulation itself, in its official form on EUR-Lex, the EU's official law database. This is the source of every article citation in your report, recyclability (Art. 6), recycled content (Art. 7), packaging minimisation (Art. 10), the empty-space cap (Art. 24), harmonised labelling (Art. 12), the Article 21 own-brand rule, reuse targets (Art. 29), producer registration (Art. 44) and EPR (Art. 45), the restricted substances and PFAS provisions (Art. 5), the transitional rules (Art. 70), and the annexes. When the report names an article, you can open it here and read the exact text.

Official guidance and implementing measures

European Commission, Packaging and packaging waste: The Commission's own hub for PPWR: guidance documents, FAQs, and the schedule of implementing and delegated acts that fill in details the regulation leaves to be specified later. Because several thresholds and methods depend on acts still being finalised, the report flags where a requirement is provisional and points here for the current status.
European Commission, PPWR implementation guidance and FAQ: We also rely on the Commission's implementation guidance, including guidance C(2026)3702 on the relationship between the Article 10 minimisation and Article 24 empty-space requirements and the Article 70 transitional rules, and the Commission's PPWR FAQ (30 March 2026), for how the regulation is read where the text leaves room for interpretation.

National EPR registers

Member-state Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) registers: EPR registration and reporting happen at the national level, through each member state's producer register and packaging compliance scheme. Where the report lists the markets you must register in, it points you to the relevant national register for each, because the operative requirement, deadlines and fees are set nationally within the framework Articles 44 (the producer register) and 45 (extended producer responsibility) lay down. We link the specific registers for the markets you select in your report.

Why we show our sources. A compliance screening is only as good as the sources behind it, and the whole value of this report is that it holds up when someone checks it. So every point cites a public authority you can open and read, not a claim you have to take on trust. If you or your adviser ever disagree with how the report reads a provision, the citation takes you straight to the text so the disagreement is about the source, not about us.