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Article 48(3) states that ‘Member States may derogate from the return and separate waste collection obligation in paragraph 1 of the Article for certain formats of waste, provided that collecting fractions of packaging waste together, or collecting packaging waste or fractions of such packaging waste together with other waste does not affect the capacity of such packaging or fractions of packaging waste to undergo preparing for re-use, recycling or other recovery operations and generates output from those operations which is of comparable quality to that achieved through separate collection’.

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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.