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Schedule 5 Illustrative Examples of Packaging Referred to in the definition of Packaging in Regulation 3(2)

United Kingdom

Illustrative examples for criterion in regulation 3(3)(a)—

  • Packaging

    • Sweet boxes

    • Film overwrap around a CD case

    • Mailing pouches for catalogues and magazines (with a magazine inside)

    • Cake doilies sold with a cake

    • Rolls, tubes and cylinders around which flexible material (e.g. plastic film, aluminium, paper) is wound, except rolls, tubes and cylinders intended as parts of production machinery and not used to present a product as a sales unit

    • Flower pots intended to be used only for the selling and transporting of plants and not intended to stay with the plant throughout its lifetime

    • Glass bottles for injection solutions

    • CD spindles (sold with CDs, not intended to be used as storage)

    • Clothes hangers (sold with a clothing item)

    • Matchboxes

    • Sterile barrier systems (pouches, trays and materials necessary to preserve the sterility of the product)

    • Beverage system capsules (e.g. coffee, cacao, milk) which are left empty after use

    • Refillable steel cylinders used for various kinds of gas, excluding fire extinguishers

  • Non-packaging

    • Flower pots intended to stay with the plant throughout its lifetime

    • Tool boxes

    • Tea bags

    • Wax layers around cheese

    • Sausage skins

    • Clothes hangers (sold separately)

    • Beverage system coffee capsules, coffee foil pouches, and filter paper coffee pods disposed together with the used coffee product

    • Cartridges for printers

    • CD, DVD and video cases (sold together with a CD, DVD or video inside)

    • CD spindles (sold empty, intended to be used as storage)

    • Soluble bags for detergents

    • Graveside lights (containers for candles)

    • Mechanical quern (integrated in a refillable recipient, e.g. refillable pepper mill)

Illustrative examples for criterion in regulation 3(3)(b)—

  • Packaging, if designed and intended to be filled at the point of sale

    • Paper or plastic carrier bags

    • Disposable plates and cups

    • Cling film

    • Sandwich bags

    • Aluminium foil

    • Plastic foil for cleaned clothes in laundries

  • Non-packaging

    • Stirrer

    • Disposable cutlery

    • Wrapping paper (sold separately)

    • Paper baking cases (sold empty)

    • Cake doilies sold without a cake

Illustrative examples for criterion in regulation 3(3)(c)—

  • Packaging

    • Labels hung directly on or attached to a product

  • Part of packaging

    • Mascara brush which forms part of the container closure

    • Sticky labels attached to another packaging item

    • Staples

    • Plastic sleeves

    • Device for measuring dosage which forms part of the container closure for detergents

    • Mechanical quern (integrated in a non-refillable recipient, filled with a product, eg. pepper mill filled with pepper)

  • Non-packaging

    • Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.