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Definition sheet with explanations

Product group no. Product group Product no. Product
02-130 Fats & oils 02-130-0010 Cooking oil
Product description
Vegetable oils for human consumption, including cooking oil with additives
Product in detail Not classified here
Sesame seed oil, wheat germ oil
Olive oil
Frying oils of all kinds
Other oils for human nutrition
Grape seed oil, pumpkin seed oil
Rapeseed oil, linseed oil, hemp oil
Walnut oil, peanut oil
Sunflower seed oil, soybean oil
14-000-0030 Skin care products 
02-130-0030 Edible fats, margarine 
  Vegetable industrial oils (e.g. palm oil) (not included in the catalogue) 
   
   
   
   
   
Explanation
Retail packaging and grouped packaging for cooking oil in quantities of 14 litres or less are subject to system participation because they typically accumulate as waste with private final consumers – i.e. private households and comparable sources of waste generation (within the meaning of section 3 (11) VerpackG) such as food and beverage businesses, canteens and commercial kitchens. Comparable sources of waste generation also include artisanal food production businesses whose packaging waste can be collected at the rate that is normally associated with private households in waste bins that do not exceed 1,100 litres ('volume criterion'). The comparable sources of waste generation use volumes typically associated with private households (e.g. 1 litre), as well as large bottles (e.g. 3 litres), canisters (mainly 10 litres) and bag-in-boxes of up to 12.5 litres.

Retail packaging and grouped packaging for cooking oil in quantities exceeding 14 litres are not subject to system participation because they typically accumulate as waste in large commercial enterprise settings. This mainly includes casks, IBCs, canisters and cans.

Shipment packaging for cooking oil of all kinds typically accumulates as waste with private final consumers – i.e. private households and comparable sources of waste generation and, as such, is subject to system participation.

Brief system participation requirement overview - Product: 02-130-0010 // Cooking oil

Packaging material
Packaging material

Abbreviations:

PPC stands for paper, paperboard or cardboard.
PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate (a type of plastic).
PE stands for polyethylene (a type of plastic).

Composite packaging is packaging made from at least two material types that cannot be separated by hand.

 		Shape/form
Shape/form

This section shows the typical packaging types for the product group under consideration.

IBC is the abbreviation for intermediate bulk container. An IBC is a large, cuboid container for liquid and free-flowing materials.

An octabin is an octagonal container used to transport and store bulk materials.

 		Delineation criterion
Delineation criterion

Criterion that relates to a specific product and determines whether the shipment, retail or grouped packaging in question is subject to system participation.

For food packaging, that delineation criterion often is quantity. For packaging filled with other products, the delineation criterion tends to be the number/volume or unit of the individual products contained in the packaging. Depending on the product, other criteria may be used within the scope of an overall market assessment to delineate or determine whether the system participation requirement applies to a packaging, such as the stress class in the case of laminate products.

 		System participation requirement
Retail packaging
All types All types > 14 l no
All types All types ≤ 14 l yes
Aluminium Cans, bottles ≤ 14 l yes
Glass Bottles ≤ 14 l yes
Metal Casks, canisters ≤ 14 l yes
Metal Casks, canisters > 14 l no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard, other composite packaging Bag-in-boxes > 14 l no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard, other composite packaging Bag-in-boxes ≤ 14 l yes
Plastic Casks, bottles, canisters ≤ 14 l yes
Plastic Casks, bottles, IBCs, canisters > 14 l no
Tinplate Canisters, jugs > 14 l no
Tinplate Cans, canisters, jugs ≤ 14 l yes
Shipment packaging (retail packaging) and grouped packaging
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes, outer boxes made of cardboard > 14 l no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes, outer boxes made of cardboard ≤ 14 l yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Shipment packaging All types yes
Plastic Multi-piece packaging, wrappings > 14 l no
Plastic Multi-piece packaging, wrappings ≤ 14 l yes
Plastic Shipment packaging All types yes

Detailed system participation requirement overview - Product: 02-130-0010 // Cooking oil

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Packaging material
Packaging material

Abbreviations:

PPC stands for paper, paperboard or cardboard.
PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate (a type of plastic).
PE stands for polyethylene (a type of plastic).

Composite packaging is packaging made from at least two material types that cannot be separated by hand.

 		Shape/form
Shape/form

This section shows the typical packaging types for the product group under consideration.

IBC is the abbreviation for intermediate bulk container. An IBC is a large, cuboid container for liquid and free-flowing materials.

An octabin is an octagonal container used to transport and store bulk materials.

 		Quantity/volume
exemplary listing 		System participation requirement
Retail packaging
All types All types > 14 l no
All types All types ≤ 14 l yes
Aluminium Cans, bottles 200 ml - 1 l yes
Glass Bottles 0.1 l yes
Glass Bottles 0.25 l yes
Glass Bottles 0.5 l yes
Glass Bottles 0.75 l yes
Glass Bottles 1 l yes
Metal Casks, canisters > 14 l no
Other composite packaging Square bags 500 ml - 1.5 l yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard, other composite packaging Bag-in-boxes 10 l - 14 l yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard, other composite packaging Bag-in-boxes 15 l - 25 l no
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