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While Article 43 allows Member States to set higher national packaging waste prevention targets than those set out at EU level (31), higher national prevention targets cannot be used as a justification to increase the harmonised EU-level re-use targets. This stems from the principle of primacy of EU law over national law as, otherwise, the objective of market harmonisation could be compromised by Member States.

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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.