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[Alutka_120]

Hello everyone.

I'm writing to ask if this topic is familiar to you.

 

I don't really know what to do.

What should I expect from a supplier?

What should we as a company do?

What do we provide to our customers?

We are a food manufacturer that primarily packages products in:

- packaging, mainly 10-liter, 30-liter, and 5-liter buckets for bakeries (we buy standard packaging from the supplier; they don't produce custom packaging for us)

- packaging in larger barrels (reusable packaging)

Mostly, these are products for the confectionery industry.

But we also sell retail:

- fillings, marmalades in jars

- cans (some are lithographed).

If you have any useful links or resources that could help, please share them.

Thank you.

A.

 

 

[TbuitK]

If you are a supplier, you must be able to provide the necessary information to the next chain in the supply chain. Based on this, the brand owner is required to issue a Declaration of Conformity confirming compliance with the PPWR.

 

A simplified overview of the PPWR timeline is as follows:

August 2026: PFAS for food contact packaging and heavy metal limits come into effect. Actual test results are required; a supplier declaration alone is not sufficient.

August 2028: Introduction of a harmonised label on packaging.

2030:

• Packaging must be recyclable.
• Plastic packaging must contain a minimum share of post-consumer recycled content.
• Packaging must meet minimum weight efficiency requirements.

[Alutka_120]

Hello,

Thank you for your reply. We are a supplier, but of a finished product in packaging. Not the packaging itself. So we only have to provide essential information to our customers? Not prepare a conformity assessment procedure and declaration of conformity?

[TbuitK]

Hello,

Thank you for your reply. We are a supplier, but of a finished product in packaging. Not the packaging itself. So we only have to provide essential information to our customers? Not prepare a conformity assessment procedure and declaration of conformity?

If you produce packaged products on behalf of a customer, it is the customer that needs to comply with PPWR and needs to draw up a declaration of conformity. Customers will ask you for information and they need you to make sure their packaging complies. Expect customers to ask you for PFAS lab results before august. I would also start looking into the recyclability and the minimum weight efficiency requirements of your packaging.

Edited by TbuitK, 14 April 2026 - 08:14 AM.

[Alutka_120]

I understand.

And in the case of:

- if we produce a product that's sort of our standard, something we offer, that goes to a supermarket or, for example, a cake or ice cream manufacturer. We have to prepare the documents?

- and in the case of when we source raw materials for production, e.g., frozen fruit or food additives, do we also have to handle the packaging of the raw materials?

Please respond.

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Edited by Alutka_120, 14 April 2026 - 08:40 AM.

[TbuitK]

 

I understand.

And in the case of:

- if we produce a product that's sort of our standard, something we offer, that goes to a supermarket or, for example, a cake or ice cream manufacturer. We have to prepare the documents?

- and in the case of when we source raw materials for production, e.g., frozen fruit or food additives, do we also have to handle the packaging of the raw materials?

Please respond.

A.

 

 

 

I can recommend this webinar:

It has English subtitles.

Edited by TbuitK, 21 April 2026 - 11:38 AM.