Legal provisions:

Article 3(1), point (13), defines ‘manufacturer’ as ‘a natural or legal person’ that ‘has packaging or a packaged product designed or manufactured under its own name or trademark, regardless of whether any other trademark is visible on the packaging or on the packaged product (…).’ Article 3(1), point (10), defines ‘placing on the market’ ‘as the first making available of packaging, whether empty or with a product, on the Union market’. Article 3(1), point (11), defines ‘making available on the territory of the Member State’ as ‘any supply of packaging, whether empty or with a product, for distribution, consumption or use (…) whether in return for payment or free of charge.’ Article 5(5) states: ‘From 12 August 2026, food-contact packaging shall not be placed on the market if it contains per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in a concentration equal to or above the following limit values to the extent that the placing on the market of packaging containing such a concentration of PFAS is not prohibited pursuant to another Union legal act: 25 ppb for any PFAS as measured with targeted PFAS analysis (polymeric PFAS excluded from quantification); 250 ppb for the sum of PFAS measured as the sum of targeted PFAS analysis, where applicable with prior degradation of precursors (polymeric PFAS excluded from quantification); and 50 ppm for PFASs (including polymeric PFAS); if total fluorine exceeds 50 mg/kg the manufacturer, importer or downstream user as defined respectively in Article 3, points (9), (11) and (13) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 shall, upon request, provide to the manufacturer or the importer as defined respectively in Article 3(1), points (13) and (17), of this Regulation proof of the quantity of fluorine measured as content of either PFAS or non-PFAS in order for them to draw up the technical documentation as referred to in Annex VII to this Regulation.’

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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.