Plastic bags as packaging

Archiv – A draft European Court of Justice judgement argues that plastic carrier bags should be defined as packaging under EU law.A draft European Court of Justice judgement argues that plastic carrier bags should be defined as packaging under EU law. Advocate general Philippe Léger concludes that these bags conform both to the existing directive’s general definition of packaging as well as to its definition of ’transport packaging’€™.
Exclusion of plastic bags from the definition of packaging would compromise EU objectives by placing them outside national packaging waste collection and recovery systems, according to Mr Léger.