November 26, 2025 15:10

In a joint letter signed by more than 100 organizations — including NGOs, companies, and packaging and recycling industry associations such as Flexible Packaging Europe, Plastics Recyclers Europe and Chemical Recycling Europe — coordinated by Reloop, stakeholders voiced strong concerns about a potential reopening of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) as part of the Environmental Simplification Package, expected to be presented in December.

The signatories consider the PPWR a cornerstone of the European circular economy, offering the regulatory certainty urgently needed by market operators to unlock long-term investments in production and recycling infrastructure across the EU.

“Reopening the PPWR — even for minor amendments — would create crippling
uncertainty,” the letter states (available as an attachment). “Any renewed negotiation process risks significant delays, removing the crucial deadlines upon which operators base their  nvestment projections". “Worse still,” the letter continues, “the possibility that key provisions could be altered would trigger market immobilism, effectively paralysing investments until the rules are unequivocally clarified.”

The coalition therefore calls on the European Commission to uphold its previously agreed political commitment and refrain from reopening the core legislative text of the PPWR.

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