Commission’s interpretation:

The 90 % separate collection targets for single-use plastic beverage bottles and metal beverage containers in Article 50(1) applies to the Member State as a whole and is based on the quantity of such packaging formats made available on the territory of a Member State in a year. All single-use plastic beverage bottles and metal beverage containers, except those expressly exempted from this obligation by Article 50(4), are required to be part of a DRS. Member States must ensure that their whole territory is covered by the separate collection for these packaging formats, but may implement DRS schemes at a subnational level to take relevant national administrative divisions and overseas territories into account. Article 2 is amended as follows: paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: “2. Where this Directive conflicts with Directive 94/62/EC or 2008/98/EC, this Directive shall prevail unless provided otherwise by Regulation (EU) 2025/40 of the European Parliament and of the Council” the following paragraph is added: “3. Where Article 4 of this Directive conflicts with Article 25(1) and (6) of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 as regards single-use plastic packaging listed in point (3) of Annex V to that Regulation. Article 25(1) and (6) of that Regulation shall prevail”’. ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/3084/oj ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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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.