Legal provisions:

According to Article 29(6), ‘From 1 January 2030, final distributors that make alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in sales packaging available on the territory of a Member State to consumers shall ensure that at least 10 % of those products are made available in reusable packaging within a re-use system’. Article 3(11) establishes that ‘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’. A final distributor is defined in Article 3(1), point (21), as ‘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’.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.