Joint Industry Statement on the EU Waste Sorting Instructions for Packaging

1 Juli 2025

The undersigned organisations express their strong concern and opposition to the use of text and colour for waste sorting labels on packaging. This would reintroduce national barriers to the free movement of packaged goods in the Union, directly contradicting the recent Single Market Strategy where the European Commission identified divergent packaging labels as one of the ten most disruptive barriers to the internal market.

Therefore, 70 European associations including CEO issued a joint letter urging the Commission to reconsider the current direction of the Joint Reasearch Centre guidelines and ensure that the future EU labelling system aligns with the goals of EU-wide harmonisation, large scale recyclability, and protection of the Single Market.