Emballages et déchets d'emballages

No agreement could be reached on the final text of the Directive. The President-in-Office underlined that the Council had accepted 18 out of 19 amendments, but the EP delegation felt that Am 31 should be accepted as well. This amendment concerns "economic instruments", i.e. fiscal measures and incentives, that may be adopted to promote the objectives of the Directive. Council strongly opposes the second part of the amendment. Indeed, in order to seek a compromise about amendment 31, EP delegation had asked that Council takes into account the wishes of EP on other aspects of the Directive. Those could include: excess packaging waste, the manufacturer's responsibility for the disposal of used packaging materials, based on "the polluter-pays" principle, on the recycling of packaging waste, on a timetable and targets for the limitation of the use of halogenated compounds in packaging and the use of chlorine and chlorine-containing compounds and for the bleaching of packaging materials, and, finally, on conditions for Member States, which have or will set programmes going beyond the targets and which provide to this effect appropriate capacities for recycling and recovery within their own borders or under bilateral agreements with other Member States or the OECD. It was decided that delegations on both sides will soon meet to discuss the matter further. It was decided that delegations on both sides will soon meet to discuss the matter further.