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Dust bags for shoes and garments are deemed packaging if they are intended to be used for the containment, protection, handling, delivery or presentation of products to an end user. There is no exemption for textile packaging from the general packaging definition contained in Article 3(1), point (1), but textile sales packaging (4) is exempted from the recyclability requirements (Article 6(11)(g)). Dust bags for shoes and garments packaging may be packaging if they meet the regulatory definition of packaging. This will depend on their function, i.e. if they are used for the containment or protection of garments or shoes during their handling, delivery, or presentation, and on their intended use, i.e., whether they have been placed on the market by an economic operator as part of a product supply. Such items are not packaging when they are integral to the product (i.e. part of the product and necessary for its intrinsic use, not just for protection or handling), or if they are not placed on the market for packaging use, i.e. if they are sold separately by the consumer or provided free of charge in a non-commercial context.

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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.