FRcenv/L541-10-24
France Code de l'environnement — Extended Producer Responsibility (REP) provision
- Jurisdiction:
- France
- Type:
- Deposit Return · EPR
- Last action:
- Feb 12, 2020
Other
Confirm your obligations with ADEME — Registre SYDEREP (French EPR producer register) and track its implementing rules
Applies toToute personne physique ou morale qui met sur le marché national des bouteilles de gaz destinées à un usage individuel — any natural or legal person who places gas cylinders intended for individual use on the French…
Obligations under this law
- ·Establish a deposit-return scheme (consigne) or equivalent system promoting the reuse of gas cylinders, as a condition of placing the products on the market
- ·Ensure free take-back of waste gas cylinders that have been discarded by holders outside the deposit-return or equivalent system set up by producers
- ·Ensure free take-back of waste gas cylinders collected by competent local authorities during clean-up of illegal dumping sites (dépôts sauvages)
No designated program action is recorded for this measure yet — treat the above as the general obligation and verify against the source text.
Establishes mandatory deposit/consignment system and free take-back obligation for gas bottle producers, combining deposit-return and EPR mechanisms to promote reuse and waste management of individual-use gas cylinders.
Covered Products
- ·Bouteilles de gaz destinées à un usage individuel (gas cylinders intended for individual/household use) placed on the French national market
Producer Obligations
- ·Establish a deposit-return scheme (consigne) or equivalent system promoting the reuse of gas cylinders, as a condition of placing the products on the market
- ·Ensure free take-back of waste gas cylinders that have been discarded by holders outside the deposit-return or equivalent system set up by producers
- ·Ensure free take-back of waste gas cylinders collected by competent local authorities during clean-up of illegal dumping sites (dépôts sauvages)
Key Deadlines
—compliance: Implementation conditions to be determined by decree (décret); no specific compliance date specified in the article itself
Producer Definition
Toute personne physique ou morale qui met sur le marché national des bouteilles de gaz destinées à un usage individuel — any natural or legal person who places gas cylinders intended for individual use on the French national market (includes producers, manufacturers, brand owners, and importers)
Enforcement
To be specified by implementing decree: Not specified in this article
Preemption Notes
This is a national French legislative provision under the Code de l'environnement; implementing conditions are delegated to a decree (décret), which may introduce additional specificity on thresholds, timelines, and enforcement
Tracking dates like these across a whole portfolio of jurisdictions is what Upcoming Deadlines does.
Full bill text
Toute personne physique ou morale qui met sur le marché national des bouteilles de gaz destinées à un usage individuel assortit cette mise sur le marché de la mise en place d'une consigne ou d'un système équivalent favorisant le réemploi de ces bouteilles. Elle prend également en charge la reprise à titre gratuit des déchets de bouteilles de gaz dont le détenteur s'est défait hors des circuits de consigne ou de système équivalent mis en place par les producteurs, y compris lorsque ces déchets sont collectés par les collectivités compétentes lors du nettoyage de dépôts sauvages. Un décret détermine les conditions d'application du présent article.
Full text as ingested. Verify against the official source above.