The resolution of November 25, 2008 No. 31-9 is accepted at the thirty first plenary session of Inter-parliamentary Assembly of the State Parties of the CIS

MODEL LAW

About packaging and packaging waste

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Purposes, tasks and scope of this Law

This Law is adopted for the purpose of reduction of impact of packaging waste by the environment and health of the population, creation of systems of separate collection, reuse and utilization of packaging. The law solves problems of reuse of packaging, utilization and other forms of recovery of consumer properties of the used packaging, and also reduction of number of packaging waste in source. These tasks have unconditional priority before placement of packaging waste on polygons.

Operation of this Law extends to all types of packaging, placed in the market of the state, irrespective of material of which it is made, and on processes of utilization of all types of packaging at the end of its lifecycle (packaging waste) irrespective of where they were formed (in the industry, trade, organizations, services industry, housing or in any other sources).

Requirements of this Law extend to the producers of packaging, consumers of packaging, suppliers and importers placing packaging and the packed products in the territory of the state.

Article 2. Basic concepts

For the purposes of this Law the following basic concepts and determinations are used (are this in alphabetical order):

group packaging, or secondary package, - the packaging containing certain quantity of commodity units and allowed to sale in outlet to the end user or the consumer or the employee for replenishment of trade inventories (racks). In case of extraction of products from such packaging of its characteristic do not change;

liquidation of packaging waste - the activities connected with safe and resource-saving processes of use of packaging at the last stage of its lifecycle (in case of its transformation into withdrawal) by utilization of that part of waste which can be used as secondary resources, and removal of that part of waste which cannot be used as secondary resources, including use in the energy purposes and burial;

packaging marking - the signs, texts, pictograms serving for informing users on compliance to the packed products to requirements of technical regulations and provisions of national standards, and also on properties of the packaging;

multiturnover packaging - the packaging intended for reusable use with the same purpose;

the best available technology - the technology of collection, storage, transportation, conversion, utilization, liquidation of packaging and packaging waste based on the last achievements of science and technology, directed to decrease in negative impact of packaging and packaging waste on the environment, life and health of citizens and available to practical application taking into account economic and social factors;

the address with packaging - the activities directed to designing, production, storage, transportation, use and utilization or liquidation of packaging at the end of lifecycle;

the address with packaging waste - collection, sorting, transportation, cross-border movement, conversion, utilization or liquidation of packaging waste and control of these activities;

disposable package - packaging which on the physical properties or hygienic reasons is not reused;

the operator of system of the address with packaging or packaging waste - the organization or the individual entrepreneur performing activities for collection, sorting, transportation, cross-border movement, utilization or liquidation of packaging and packaging waste within system of the address with packaging or packaging waste;

buyers (final consumers) - physical persons and legal entities which do not resell the goods delivered by it in the same form. Households of different form, restaurants, cafe, hotels, medical and educational to uchrezhdeniyavsa physical persons and legal entities which collection and export of waste is performed by means of standard containers for municipal solid waste according to the scheme accepted for this territorial unit of the state concern to consumers, for example;

sellers - the legal entities and individual entrepreneurs releasing packaging, packaging materials or materials of which packaging can be directly made, or the selling packagings or goods concluded in packaging. Seller for the purposes of this Law is also the seller of goods by mail or via the Internet;

producers - the legal entities and individual entrepreneurs making packaging or packaging materials or importing packaging to the state;

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