{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015/schedule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015/schedule-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1640",
  "legislation_title": "The Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/5",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Illustrative Examples of Packaging Referred to in the definition of Packaging in Regulation 3(2)",
  "text": "Illustrative examples for criterion in regulation 3(3)(a)—\nPackaging\nSweet boxes\nFilm overwrap around a CD case\nMailing pouches for catalogues and magazines (with a magazine inside)\nCake doilies sold with a cake\nRolls, 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\nFlower pots intended to be used only for the selling and transporting of plants and not intended to stay with the plant throughout its lifetime\nGlass bottles for injection solutions\nCD spindles (sold with CDs, not intended to be used as storage)\nClothes hangers (sold with a clothing item)\nMatchboxes\nSterile barrier systems (pouches, trays and materials necessary to preserve the sterility of the product)\nBeverage system capsules (e.g. coffee, cacao, milk) which are left empty after use\nRefillable steel cylinders used for various kinds of gas, excluding fire extinguishers\nNon-packaging\nFlower pots intended to stay with the plant throughout its lifetime\nTool boxes\nTea bags\nWax layers around cheese\nSausage skins\nClothes hangers (sold separately)\nBeverage system coffee capsules, coffee foil pouches, and filter paper coffee pods disposed together with the used coffee product\nCartridges for printers\nCD, DVD and video cases (sold together with a CD, DVD or video inside)\nCD spindles (sold empty, intended to be used as storage)\nSoluble bags for detergents\nGraveside lights (containers for candles)\nMechanical quern (integrated in a refillable recipient, e.g. refillable pepper mill)\nIllustrative examples for criterion in regulation 3(3)(b)—\nPackaging, if designed and intended to be filled at the point of sale\nPaper or plastic carrier bags\nDisposable plates and cups\nCling film\nSandwich bags\nAluminium foil\nPlastic foil for cleaned clothes in laundries\nNon-packaging\nStirrer\nDisposable cutlery\nWrapping paper (sold separately)\nPaper baking cases (sold empty)\nCake doilies sold without a cake\nIllustrative examples for criterion in regulation 3(3)(c)—\nPackaging\nLabels hung directly on or attached to a product\nPart of packaging\nMascara brush which forms part of the container closure\nSticky labels attached to another packaging item\nStaples\nPlastic sleeves\nDevice for measuring dosage which forms part of the container closure for detergents\nMechanical quern (integrated in a non-refillable recipient, filled with a product, eg. pepper mill filled with pepper)\nNon-packaging\nRadio frequency identification (RFID) tags.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1640/schedule/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:48.463195+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."
}