{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1994-62/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1994-62/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1994/62",
  "legislation_title": "European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1994-62",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Concentration levels of heavy metals present in packaging",
  "text": "1. Member States shall ensure that the sum of concentration levels of lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium present in packaging or packaging components shall not exceed the following:\n600 ppm by weight two years after the date referred to in Article 22 (i);\n250 ppm by weight three years after the date referred to in Article 22 (i);\n100 ppm by weight five years after the date referred to in Article 22 (i).\n2. The concentration levels referred to in paragraph 1 shall not apply to packaging entirely made of lead crystal glass as defined in Directive 69/493/EEC.\n3. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 21a in order to supplement this Directive by determining the conditions under which the concentration levels referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article do not apply to recycled materials and to product loops which are in a closed and controlled chain, as well as by determining the types of packaging which are exempted from the requirement laid down in the third indent of paragraph 1 of this Article.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Directive (EU) 2018/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 amending Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 326, 29.12.1969, p. 36."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1994/62/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:15.137486+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}