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Definition sheet with explanations

Product group no. Product group Product no. Product
08-020 Building materials and installations 08-020-0780 Insulating tapes, sealing tapes
Product description
Self-adhesive tapes for electrotechnical applications (insulating tapes) and other insulating and sealing tapes used in building and installation trades, amongst others
Product in detail Not classified here
Insulating tape
Repair sealing tape
Other insulating tapes
Other sealing tapes
All-purpose sealing tape
Pipe protection tape
Compression tape
08-040-0390 Painter's tape 
31-000-0070 Self-adhesive tapes 
   
   
   
   
   
Explanation
Retail packaging and grouped packaging for insulating and sealing tapes in lengths of 18 metres 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). Comparable sources of waste generation include in particular building trade businesses and other craft enterprises 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'). Retail packaging and grouped packaging for insulating and sealing tapes in lengths of 18 metres or less also accumulate as waste in industrial or large commercial enterprise settings to some extent. This also includes building trade businesses that exceed the volume criterion. However, this packaging is subject to system participation because the quantities/lengths used in these settings match those accumulating as waste with private final consumers – i.e. private households and comparable sources of waste generation, and the lion’s share accumulates as waste with private final consumers – i.e. private households and comparable sources of waste generation.

Shipment packaging for insulating and sealing tapes 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.
Specials
For a sales unit with 2 tapes of 10 metres each, the indicated length is 20 metres.

Brief system participation requirement overview - Product: 08-020-0780 // Insulating tapes, sealing tapes

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 ≤ 18 m yes
All types All types > 18 m no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes, cores ≤ 18 m yes
Plastic Wrappings, cores ≤ 18 m yes
Shipment packaging (retail packaging) and grouped packaging
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes, outer boxes made of cardboard ≤ 18 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes, outer boxes made of cardboard > 18 m no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Shipment packaging All types yes
Plastic Multi-piece packaging, wrappings > 18 m no
Plastic Multi-piece packaging, wrappings ≤ 18 m yes
Plastic Shipment packaging All types yes

Detailed system participation requirement overview - Product: 08-020-0780 // Insulating tapes, sealing tapes

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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 > 18 m no
All types All types ≤ 18 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Cores 7 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Cores 10 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Cores 15 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Cores 20 m no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Cores 25 m no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Cores 50 m no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes 7 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes 10 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes 15 m yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes 20 m no
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