{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1994-62/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1994-62/article-13.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/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Information for users of packaging",
  "text": "Member States shall take measures, within two years of the date referred to in Article 22 (1), to ensure that users of packaging, including in particular consumers, obtain the necessary information about:\nthe return, collection and recovery systems available to them,\ntheir role in contributing to reuse, recovery and recycling of packaging and packaging waste,\nthe meaning of markings on packaging existing on the market,\nthe appropriate elements of the management plans for packaging and packaging waste as referred to in Article 14.\nMember States shall also promote consumer information and awareness campaigns.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Inserted by Directive 2004/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 amending Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1994/62/article/13",
    "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."
}