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Draft your PPWR declaration of conformity, point by point.

The model of Annex VIII to Regulation (EU) 2025/40, filled in your browser.

An importer or a customer asked for the declaration of conformity of your packaging. The regulation asks its manufacturer to draw one up before placing the packaging on the market. Fill in what you know: the draft follows the annex point by point, and every blank stays marked until you complete it. Then print it, save it as PDF or copy it as text.

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Every answer lands where Annex VIII puts it. A field you leave empty stays in the draft as a blank to complete, so that nobody signs a gap by mistake. Nothing you type is sent or kept: close the page and it is gone.

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The declaration
Point 1 · The packaging's identification
Point 2 · Manufacturer

Appointed by a written mandate. Annex VIII names it where there is one.

Point 3 is fixed: the declaration is issued under the sole responsibility of the manufacturer.

Point 4 · Object of the declaration
Single-use or reusable?

It also decides how long you keep the declaration.

Point 5 · Union legislation

Regulation (EU) 2025/40 is in the declaration already. Add what it declares.

Requirements whose fulfilment you have demonstrated

Tick the Articles that apply to this packaging and that your technical documentation covers. The line under each one says when it starts to apply.

Article 8 is left out: it asks the Commission for a review, not you for anything.

Point 6 · Standards and specifications
Point 7 · Notified body
Point 8 · Additional information
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EU declaration of conformity No To complete: declaration number

  1. 1.

    No To complete: unique identification of the packaging (unique identification of the packaging)

  2. 2.

    Name and address of the manufacturer and, where applicable, the manufacturer’s authorised representative:

    Manufacturer: To complete: manufacturer's name

    Address: To complete: manufacturer's address

  3. 3.

    This declaration of conformity is issued under the sole responsibility of the manufacturer.

  4. 4.

    Object of the declaration (identification of the packaging allowing traceability): description of the packaging:

    To complete: description of the packaging

    To complete: single-use or reusable

    Identification: To complete: unique identification of the packaging

  5. 5.

    The object of the declaration referred to in point 4 is in conformity with the relevant Union harmonisation legislation:

    Regulation (EU) 2025/40 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 December 2024 on packaging and packaging waste (OJ L, 2025/40, 22.1.2025)

    The fulfilment of the requirements laid down in or pursuant to Articles 5 to 12 of that Regulation that apply to this packaging has been demonstrated:

    To complete: the requirements of Articles 5 to 12 that apply

  6. 6.

    References to the relevant harmonised standards or the common specifications used or references to the other technical specifications in relation to which conformity is declared:

    To complete: standards or specifications applied

  7. 7.

    Where applicable, the notified body (name, address, number), what it performed (description of intervention) and the certificate(s) it issued (details, including the date of the certificate(s), and, where appropriate, information on the duration and conditions of validity):

    Not applicable.

  8. 8.

    Additional information:

    None.

Signed for and on behalf of: To complete: signed for and on behalf of

Place and date of issue: To complete: place of issue, To complete: date of issue

Name, function: To complete: name of the signatory, To complete: function of the signatory

Signature:

Draft prepared with the free tool at shippeu.com/tools/ppwr-declaration-of-conformity. The manufacturer completes it, checks it against its technical documentation and signs it under its sole responsibility. shippeu.com is a private service. It is not an authority, a register or a collective scheme.

A draft, not a declaration. The manufacturer completes it, checks every line against its technical documentation, and signs it under its sole responsibility.

shippeu.com is a private service. It is not an authority, a register or a collective scheme.

When it applies

Since 12 August 2026. For the requirements that already apply.

The declaration is due before packaging is placed on the market, from 12 August 2026. It declares the requirements of Articles 5 to 12 that apply to that packaging, and several of them have later dates of their own. Where a provision sets no date, the general date applies, the Commission's FAQ says.

  • Article 5 Requirements for substances in packaging

    Since 12 August 2026: the limit on lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium in all packaging, and the PFAS limits for food-contact packaging.

    Article 5(4) and (5), Article 71

  • Article 6 Recyclable packaging

    Packaging has had to be recyclable since 12 August 2026, but the Commission's guidance says the conformity assessment for recyclability waits for the delegated act on design for recycling. Grades A to C apply from 1 January 2030 at the earliest.

    Article 6(1) and (2); Commission guidance C/2026/3084, point 6

  • Article 7 Minimum recycled content in plastic packaging

    From 1 January 2030, or three years after the implementing act on calculating and verifying recycled content, whichever is later.

    Article 7(1)

  • Article 9 Compostable packaging

    From 12 February 2028: permeable tea, coffee and other beverage bags, soft single-serve units for beverages, and stickers on fruit and vegetables must be industrially compostable; other packaging, biodegradable plastics included, must be designed for material recycling.

    Article 9(1) and (3)

  • Article 10 Packaging minimisation

    From 1 January 2030: weight and volume reduced to the minimum the packaging's function needs, and nothing that only adds perceived volume, such as double walls, false bottoms or unnecessary layers.

    Article 10(1) and (2); Commission FAQ, X.2

  • Article 11 Reusable packaging

    For packaging placed on the market as reusable: the criteria have applied since 11 February 2025, and the authorities check them from 12 August 2026.

    Article 11(1); Commission guidance C/2026/3084, point 12

  • Article 12 Labelling of packaging

    From 12 August 2028, or 24 months after the implementing acts on the harmonised label, whichever is later.

    Article 12(1)

Already on the market before 12 August 2026? That packaging can stay on the market, the Commission's FAQ says. The date counts unit by unit: for imported packaging, it is the release for free circulation.

One exception in the text. Article 15(11) lifts the duty for custom-made transport packaging for configurable medical devices and medical systems used in industrial and healthcare environments.

What the draft doesn't do

The draft is one page. The technical documentation is the file behind it.

Annex VII sets out one procedure, internal production control: the manufacturer assesses the packaging, documents the assessment, and only then declares. This tool writes the last step. The rest stays with you.

  • The manufacturer signs, and answers for it

    By drawing up the declaration, the manufacturer takes responsibility for the packaging meeting the regulation's requirements (Article 39(4)). An authorised representative can draft it under a written mandate, but the responsibility stays where it was, the Commission's FAQ says.

  • The technical documentation comes first

    A description and the intended use, designs and materials, the standards applied, how the assessments of Articles 6, 10 and 11 were carried out, and test reports (Annex VII, point 2). Suppliers owe you the information; drawing up the documentation is yours.

  • One declaration per packaging type

    Per format or batch, for the whole unit: a bottle, its closure and its label together, each one named. Transport packaging is not exempt: pallets, wraps and straps each have their own.

  • In the language of each market

    Drawn up in, or translated into, the languages required where the packaging is placed or made available (Article 39(2)). This draft is in English.

  • Kept, not filed

    You don't send it to an authority. You keep it with the technical documentation, 5 years after single-use packaging is placed on the market and 10 years for reusable, and hand over a copy on request (Annex VII, point 4).

  • Kept up to date

    Article 39(2) asks for a declaration that is continuously updated. A change of design or characteristics, or of the standards you declared against, calls for a new assessment (Article 15(4)).

Importing packaging from outside the EU? Before placing it on the market, the importer checks that the manufacturer carried out the conformity assessment and drew up the technical documentation, and keeps a copy of the declaration for the authorities (Article 18). See what a representative does

The declaration covers the packaging. EPR registration is another file, country by country.

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Figures on this page come from published guidance. Last source review: 11 November 2026. Rules change — the scope check is reviewed by a person before any quote.

We found no template file published by the Commission: the model is the text of Annex VIII, and this draft follows it point by point.