Recital 18

(18) In line with the objectives of the CEAP and the Commission’s communication of 14 October 2020‘Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability Towards a Toxic-Free Environment’ (‘Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability’), and to ensure the sound management of chemicals throughout their life-cycle and the transition to a toxic-free and circular economy, and considering the relevance of packaging in everyday life, it is necessary that this Regulation address the impact of packaging on human health, the environment and on broader sustainability performance throughout its whole life-cycle, including circularity, resulting from the presence of substances of concern throughout the whole life-cycle of packaging, from manufacture to use and end-of-life, including waste management.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-08-26 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.