Chapter VI, Article 26 · Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/1616

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Article 26Compliance monitoring summary sheet and verification of the operation of a decontamination installation#

1.Recyclers shall draw up the compliance monitoring summary sheet for each decontamination installation under their control using the template provided in Annex II, or in case of a novel technology, the template provided by the developer, if different.The compliance monitoring summary sheet shall provide a summary clearly describing the recycling installation, its operation, the relevant procedures and documents in a way demonstrating compliance with this Regulation.Recyclers shall take into account the applicable guidelines published by the Commission concerning the compliance monitoring summary sheet, as well as the particular situation at the concerned recycling facility where the installation is located.

2.Recyclers shall submit the compliance monitoring summary sheet to the competent authority in the territory where the decontamination installation is located within 1 month from the start date of the production of recycled plastic with that installation. The competent authority shall notify the reception of the compliance monitoring summary sheet without delay to the Commission. The status of the registration in accordance with Article 24(2), point (g), shall change to ‘being established’.

3.The competent authority shall verify whether the information provided in the compliance monitoring summary sheet complies with this Regulation and perform a control of the recycling installation to this purpose in accordance with Article 27.When compliance cannot be established, the competent authority shall request the recycler to update the information in the compliance monitoring summary sheet, the operation of the recycling installation, or both, as appropriate.When compliance is established, the competent authority shall inform the Commission thereof. The status of the registration in accordance with Article 24(2), point (g), shall change to ‘active’.

4.If the competent authority does not inform the Commission that compliance is established within 1 year from the start date of the production of recycled plastic in the decontamination installation, the status of the registration in accordance with Article 24(2), point (g), shall be changed to ‘suspended’.If the status of a decontamination installation is ‘suspended’ for 1 year, the entry concerning the installation shall be removed from the Register.

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Key facts

Type

Regulation · Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/1616 · EEA relevant

Adopted

15 Sept 2022

In force

10 Oct 2022

Applies from

10 Oct 2024

Text current to

3 Dec 2025

Made by

Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission

Official

EUR-Lex 32022R1616 · ELI

Defined terms · 24

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batch
means a quantity of material of the same quality, and produced using uniform production parameters at a certain manufacturing stage, stored and contained to exclude mixing with other materials, or contamination, and designated as such by a single production number.
converter
means any natural or legal person that carries out one or more post-processing unit operations;
decontamination installation
means specific equipment operating a decontamination process;
decontamination process
means a specific sequence of unit operations which together have as primary purpose to remove contamination from plastic input in order to make it suitable for contact with food, using a specific decontamination technology;
decontamination technology
means a specific combination of physical or chemical concepts, principles, and practices part of a recycling technology which have as primary purpose to remove contamination or to purify;
food-grade
means plastic that was as primary material compliant with Regulation (EU) No 10/2011;
incidental contamination
means contamination present in plastic input originating from food, from plastic materials and articles intended and used for contact with food, from their use or misuse for non-food purposes, and from the unintentional presence of other substances, materials and articles due to waste management;
manufacturing stage
means one or more sequential unit operations and which are followed by a quality assessment of the material resulting from that stage;
Non-food %
(% w/w) means the maximum amount of non-food PCW present in the input;
Non-food PCW
means packaging that was not used to package food and may not have been manufactured in full compliance with Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 and other post-consumer plastic materials which were not intended for contact with food;
plastic input
means the plastic materials resulting from pre-processing which are entered into a decontamination process;
post-consumer waste
means plastic waste collected in accordance with Article 6;
post-processing
means all unit operations subsequent to the decontamination process by which its output is further polymerised, otherwise treated, and/or converted, resulting in recycled plastic materials and articles in their finished state;
pre-processing
means all waste management operations carried out to sort, shred, wash, mix or otherwise treat plastic waste in order to make it suitable for the decontamination process;
recycled content
refers to the amount of recycled plastic directly resulting from the decontamination process of a recycling process contained either in further post-processed recycled plastic or recycled plastic materials and articles manufactured therefrom.
recycled plastic
means plastic resulting from the decontamination process of a recycling process and plastic resulting from subsequent post-processing operations and that is not yet transformed into recycled plastic materials and articles;
recycled plastic materials and articles
means food contact materials and articles in their finished state, and that are made either fully or partly of recycled plastic;
recycler
means any natural or legal person who applies a decontamination process;
recycling facility
means a location where at least one decontamination installation is located;
recycling installation
means the equipment operating at least a part of a recycling process;
recycling process
means a sequence of unit operations that is intended to manufacture recycled plastic materials and articles through pre-processing, a decontamination process, and post-processing, and which is based on a specific recycling technology;
recycling scheme
means an arrangement between legal entities to manage the use, separate collection and recycling of plastic materials and articles with the objective to limit or prevent their contamination in order to facilitate their recycling;
recycling technology
means a specific combination of physical or chemical concepts, principles, and practices to recycle a waste stream of a certain type and collected in a certain way into recycled plastic materials and articles of a specific type and with a specific intended use, and includes a decontamination technology;
unit operation
means a basic operation that is part of a process, and applies a single transformation to its input, or more transformations if they occur in conjunction;