- attributed amount
means the weight of eligible material that enters a process and that is allocated to the outputs of the process for a given period;
- batch
means batch as defined in Article 2(3), point (20), of Regulation (EU) 2022/1616;
- beverage bottle
means a single-use plastic beverage bottle with a capacity of up to three litres, including its cap, lid, label and sleeve, if any, but excluding the following bottles:
- calculation point
means a point in the supply chain at which the content of eligible material for a given material is determined;
- economic operator
means any of the following operators, that are part of the supply chain leading to the placing of beverage bottles on the market or that place beverage bottles on the market:
- eligible material
means post-consumer plastic waste and material stemming from post-consumer plastic waste;
- facility
means one or more manufacturing plants at the same site, under the management control of the same economic operator, where activities, products and services are managed, including all associated infrastructure, equipment and materials;
- mass balance accounting
means a set of calculation rules used to determine the attributed amount throughout a supply chain and in the outputs, where the eligible material is used together with other material as input into the process;
- maximum acceptable boiling point
means, in a case where the eligible material or parts thereof will be fed into one single steam cracker, the maximum acceptable boiling point of that steam cracker or, in a case where the eligible material or parts thereof will be processed by different steam crackers, the weighted average of the maximum acceptable boiling points of all the individual steam crackers.
- mechanical recycling
means a recycling technology that recovers collected plastic waste through mechanical and physical processes, including by sorting, grinding, washing, separating materials, drying, extruding and re-crystallisation to produce plastic without changing the chemical structure of the plastic waste input;
- output category
means a grouping of outputs into any of the following categories:
- post-consumer plastic waste
means waste that has been generated from plastic products that have been:
- recycled plastic
means plastic which was post-consumer plastic waste before recycling, and which has been produced by recycling (including sorting), as defined in Article 3, point (17), of Directive 2008/98/EC, in the Union.
- recycling pathway
means a process, including its different steps, which preserves the potential of eligible material being processed into a non-fuel;
- recycling technology
means recycling technology as defined in Article 2(3), point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2022/1616;
- supply chain
means the series of processes or activities involved in the production and distribution of beverage bottles;
- verification
means the process by which a verifier attests that an economic operator meets the requirements regarding calculation of data on to the recycled content of beverage bottles;
- verifier
means a conformity assessment body as defined in Article 2, point (13), of Regulation (EC) 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, which is accredited in accordance with that Regulation;