Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/351

In forceThis text since 16 Mar 2025law://eu/reg/2025/351/art_2@2026-11-10

Article 2Amendment to Regulation (EU) 2022/1616#

In Article 4, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:‘2.The requirements set out in Chapters II and III and Chapter V of Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 shall apply to recycled plastic materials and articles. Article 8(1) thereof shall not apply to the contaminants in the input and the output of decontamination processes and the quality and purity of the input and output shall be in accordance with this Regulation.’.

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Type: Regulation · Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/351
Adopted: 21 Feb 2025
In force: 16 Mar 2025
Made by: Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission
Official: EUR-Lex 32025R0351 · ELI

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food safety foodstuff health risk market approval packaging product plastics product safety quality standard recycled product waste recycling Consumer protection Foodstuffs

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Cited by 2: Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/1380; this act3 provisions
Cites 2: Commission Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 of 14 January 2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food Text with EEA relevance; this act

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additive
means a substance which is intentionally added to the plastic to achieve a physical or chemical effect during processing of the plastic or in the final material or article and it is intended to be present in the final material or article, including substances in a solid state the surface of which becomes bonded to the polymers that constitute the plastic.’;
reprocessing of plastic
means the remelting, mixing, reacting or otherwise processing of plastic materials that result as a by-product from an intermediate or final manufacturing operation in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles, alone or combined with material originating from other manufacturing operations, by applying, if necessary, transfer and operations to make the use of these by-products possible again.