PURPOSE: to offer the acceding Member States an extended deadline to achieve the targets set in the revision of Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: European Parliament and Council Directive 2005/20/EC.
CONTENT: The Directive allows the new Member States an extended deadline to meet the national targets for the recycling and recovery of packaging waste by a date of their own choice but no later than:
- 31 December 2012 for the Czech Republic , Estonia , Cyprus , Lithuania , Hungary , Slovenia and Slovakia ;
- 31 December 2013 for Malta; 31 December 2014 for Poland; and
- 31 December 2015 for Latvia .
DATE OF IMPLEMENTATION: 09/09/2006.
DATE OF ENTRY INTO FORCE: 05/04/2005.