FR: Does ban on disposable plastic tableware break EU Law?

The European Commission has told the French government it must wait another 3 months before adopting any measure to ban disposable plastics tableware by 2020. This follows a legal challenge submitted by Pack2Go Europe, Europe’s Convenience Food Packaging Association. The draft French decree would ban disposable plastic cups, plates and glasses unless made of bio-sourced materials that can be composted in a domestic composting unit. The association said the draft decree infringes EU law – which guarantees packaging access to market through the EU’s general rules on free movement of goods and, more specifically, through the EU’s packaging & packaging waste directive (Packaging News, 3 June 2016).
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