FRcenv/L541-10-17Enacted

France Code de l'environnement — Extended Producer Responsibility (REP) provision

Jurisdiction:: France
Type:: EPR · Recycled Content · Incentives
Last action:: Feb 12, 2020

Plastic Packaging

What this law has produced

target −20% by 2025 → actually +3.3% (2018–2021)

change in single-use plastic packaging placed on the market vs a mandated −20% cut

Article L541-10-17 (from the 2020 AGEC law) commits France to ending single-use plastic packaging by 2040, with an implementing 'décret 3R' (n°2021-517) setting a binding target to cut single-use plastic packaging 20% by 2025 versus 2018, at least half via reuse. The government's June 2025 interim assessment, using ADEME performance indicators, found that instead of shrinking, tonnage of single-use plastic packaging placed on the market ROSE 3.3% between 2018 and 2021. The ministry concluded the 2025 targets were 'fortement compromise' (strongly compromised), and the 2023 reuse rate was only 2.2% against a 5% objective. No later French law has yet remedied the shortfall; the trajectory remains off-track.

Directly produced by the lawAs of Jun 30, 2025Source: Ministère de la Transition écologique (Bilan intermédiaire Stratégie 3R) ↗

Next steps for producers

Confirm your obligations with Citeo (packaging & paper éco-organisme) and track its implementing rules

Next deadline: Jan 1, 2040

Obligations under this law

·Comply with reduction objectives for single-use plastic packaging as set by decree for 2021-2025 and each subsequent five-year period
·Comply with reuse and reemployment objectives as set by decree for 2021-2025 and each subsequent five-year period
·Comply with recycling objectives as set by decree for 2021-2025 and each subsequent five-year period

Citeo (packaging & paper éco-organisme) →

No designated program action is recorded for this measure yet — treat the above as the general obligation and verify against the source text.

Establishes binding national targets for single-use plastic packaging reduction (2040 phase-out), reuse/reemployment, and recycling; mandates EPR filière mobilization with eco-modulation; requires national strategy by 2022 with sectoral measures and economic tools; enacted law with multi-year implementation periods.

Covered Products

·Single-use plastic packaging (emballages en plastique à usage unique)

Producer Obligations

·Comply with reduction objectives for single-use plastic packaging as set by decree for 2021-2025 and each subsequent five-year period
·Comply with reuse and reemployment objectives as set by decree for 2021-2025 and each subsequent five-year period
·Comply with recycling objectives as set by decree for 2021-2025 and each subsequent five-year period
·Participate in extended producer responsibility (REP) schemes and associated eco-modulations as determined by the national strategy
·Adhere to adapted rules on placing products on the market and distribution of packaging as determined by the national strategy

Key Deadlines

Jan 1, 2040compliance: End of market placement of single-use plastic packaging (phase-out target)

Jan 1, 2022other: National strategy for reduction, reuse, reemployment, and recycling of single-use plastic packaging must be defined by regulatory means before this date

Dec 31, 2025compliance: End of first five-year period (2021-2025) for reduction, reuse/reemployment, and recycling objectives set by decree

Fee Structure

Eco Modulated: Eco-modulations within REP schemes may be mobilized as a measure under the national strategy; specific fee amounts and structures are to be determined by decree and regulatory instruments

Preemption Notes

This is a national French framework law; objectives and measures are to be further specified by decree (décret) and regulatory instruments (voie réglementaire), leaving implementation details to subordinate regulation. No explicit preemption of local or sectoral rules is mentioned.

Compliance Dimensions

Eco-ModulationModulated on: Criteria not specified in this provision; eco-modulation is referenced as a tool within EPR schemes to help achieve reduction, reuse, reemployment, and recycling objectives

“Ces mesures peuvent prévoir notamment la mobilisation des filières à responsabilité élargie du producteur et de leurs éco-modulations, l'adaptation des règles de mise sur le marché et de distribution des emballages ainsi que le recours à d'éventuels outils économiques.”

Bans & RestrictionsSingle-use plastic packaging (emballages en plastique à usage unique) (Sales Ban), 2040

“La France se donne pour objectif d'atteindre la fin de la mise sur le marché d'emballages en plastique à usage unique d'ici à 2040.”

PRO StructureUnspecified

“Ces mesures peuvent prévoir notamment la mobilisation des filières à responsabilité élargie du producteur et de leurs éco-modulations”

Tracking dates like these across a whole portfolio of jurisdictions is what Upcoming Deadlines does.

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Full bill text

La France se donne pour objectif d'atteindre la fin de la mise sur le marché d'emballages en plastique à usage unique d'ici à 2040.
Un objectif de réduction, un objectif de réutilisation et de réemploi et un objectif de recyclage sont fixés par décret pour la période 2021-2025, puis pour chaque période consécutive de cinq ans.
Une stratégie nationale pour la réduction, la réutilisation, le réemploi et le recyclage des emballages en plastique à usage unique est définie par voie réglementaire avant le 1er janvier 2022. Cette stratégie détermine les mesures sectorielles ou de portée générale nécessaires pour atteindre les objectifs mentionnés au deuxième alinéa. Ces mesures peuvent prévoir notamment la mobilisation des filières à responsabilité élargie du producteur et de leurs éco-modulations, l'adaptation des règles de mise sur le marché et de distribution des emballages ainsi que le recours à d'éventuels outils économiques.
Cette stratégie nationale est élaborée et révisée en concertation avec les filières industrielles concernées, les collectivités territoriales et les associations de consommateurs et de protection de l'environnement.

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