Flexible packaging suppliers need urgent, workable and homogeneous implementation guidance
FPE acknowledges that several implementation challenges remain and are limiting the ability of the supply chain to comply with upcoming requirements. However, these should be addressed through clear, practical and timely secondary legislation ensuring homogeneous implementation, not through reopening the primary legislative framework. Industry needs urgent support for implementation, not reopening The publication of PPWR Commission Notice and FAQs is a first step. However, this will not be sufficient on its own. FPE calls on the European Commission to urgently step up its efforts and provide the necessary support to the entire packaging value chain through:
• Clear and practical rules enabling compliance with upcoming requirements applying as of August 2026, including realistic compliance pathways, agreed with national authorities, to ensure homogenous implementation for provisions such as PFAS targets; and,
• Timely adoption of fair and workable secondary legislation on key areas such as recyclability, recycled content for plastic packaging, minimisation and market restrictions to ensure those measures can be implemented in 2030.
Providing this clarity is essential to ensure that companies can comply in a practical, enforceable and fair manner, while continuing to innovate. Flexible Packaging Europe stands ready to support decision-makers to ensure a workable way to implement PPWR. This can be achieved through an urgent high-level dialogue with stakeholders to provide the clarity required for flexible packaging supply chain to ensure PPWR implementation and compliance.
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Launched in 2011, specialist journal sweets processing(sp) keeps confectionery business professionals informed about all the latest confectionery industry supply sector developments and features detailed articles about international companies and suppliers.
sp is the sister publication of SWEETS GLOBAL NETWORK’s SG-Magazine, the highly regarded and well established international confectionery business journal. sp covers all stages and aspects of the value added chain from material sourcing to production and packaging.
sp readership includes leaders and decision makers in charge of production, R&D, QM, purchasing and supply chain management, as well as chief executives and senior managing partners.
sp appears every two months in English and German. Circulation currently stands at 5,500. 3,000 of our subscribers are based abroad, mostly in other European countries. sp is now also available as an E-paper.
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International confectionery association SWEETS GLOBAL NETWORK e. V. (SG) is an established network of over 300 member companies based in ten countries. SG is the leading communication platform for confectionery professionals in German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and beyond. Meanwhile, most companies involved in manufacturing and retailing confectionery (wholesalers, specialist retailers, importers, brokers, producers) are members. All enjoy huge benefits, such as a range of high quality services and invitations to exclusive, member only events. There are an additional 40 supporting members active in the confectionery industry supply sector.
The International Sweets Business Forum in Berlin has taken SG well beyond the traditional territory of conventional training seminars and workshops. Social events, such as the New Year Reception in Munich or the ISM WARM UP held on the eve of the ISM in Cologne now rank as must-attend fixtures in the confectionery business year.
While acknowledging the growing significance of the global information and knowledge community, SG never loses sight of what’s going on at a local level. Articles in SG-Magazin and sweets processing, the SG-Newsletter (several times a week), annual publication of the SG-Directory and worldwide contacts bear witness to the pronounced internationality of the association.