Your PPWR declaration of conformity, signed and ready.

The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2025/40, is the EU law for all packaging placed on the EU market. It replaced the Packaging Directive 94/62/EC and applies since 12 August 2026. It sets rules for substances in packaging, recyclability, recycled content, re-use, labelling and packaging waste, and requires an EU declaration of conformity for every packaging type.

It's the manufacturer's signed statement that a packaging type meets the requirements of Articles 5 to 12 of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU) 2025/40. It follows the model in Annex VIII: the packaging's identification, the manufacturer, the legislation and standards it meets, additional information and a signature. One declaration covers one packaging type.

Most likely. The PPWR has applied since 12 August 2026. The company that has packaging made under its own name or trademark is its manufacturer (Article 3(1)(13)), even when a supplier makes it. The exception is a micro-enterprise (fewer than 10 people and at most €2 million turnover) whose packaging supplier is in the same EU country: that supplier is the manufacturer instead.

Packaging in contact with food can't contain PFAS above 25 ppb for any single PFAS, 250 ppb for the sum of PFAS, or 50 ppm total fluorine (Article 5(5)), since 12 August 2026. Veribl asks food-contact packaging and its suppliers for PFAS results before you sign.

The language or languages required by each EU country where the packaging is sold (Article 39(2)). Veribl prints every declaration in all 24 official EU languages, using the regulation's own wording for the declaration text.

Five years after the packaging is placed on the market, or ten years for reusable packaging (Article 15(3)). Authorities can ask for the declaration and the technical documentation, and you have ten days to provide them. Veribl keeps every signed version with its supporting documents.

The declaration has to be kept up to date (Article 15(4)). In Veribl, any change to a declared packaging marks it as changed since it was declared, and the passport checklist of every product packed in it shows that until you sign a new version.

They come from the same supplier data. The suppliers who send your materials and certificates for product passports send their packaging data in the same portal, and each product's passport checklist shows whether its packaging has a current declaration. Packaging declarations are kept on file for authorities, not shown on the public passport.

Packaging declarations are included with Passports on every plan, including the free plan for up to 100 products.