COMPREHENSIVE EU LEGISLATION AIMS TO ENCOURAGE MOVEMENT OF PACKAGED GOODS AROUND THE EU
August 1st, 2007
BY ALAN OSBORN
WITH packaged goods moving with ever greater freedom and speed between the member states of the European Union (EU), it is of no surprise that the EU has legislated extensively to regulate the industry. It is a raison d'être of the EU to create harmonised rules of key economic importance to oil trade between its member states, and also to minimise cross-border problems such as pollution.
In this regard, and in others, the key EU law for the packaging industry is the packaging and packaging waste directive 94/62/EC, adopted in 1994 and revised ten ...
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