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Definition sheet with explanations

Product group no. Product group Product no. Product
24-000 Tobacco products 24-000-0050 Cigarette tobacco, pipe tobacco
Product description
Fine-cut smoking tobacco, pipe tobacco and hookah tobacco That means cut, or otherwise shredded or spun tobacco, or tobacco pressed into blocks that can be smoked without further industrial processing.
Product in detail Not classified here
Traditional pipe tobacco
Shisha steam stones, shisha stones
Cigarette tobacco
Hookah tobacco, shisha tobacco
Pipe tobacco
Tobacco sticks for e-cigarettes/vapes
Shisha flavours
24-000-0030 Cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos 
24-000-0010 Raw tobacco 
24-000-0070 Chewing tobacco, snuff 
24-000-0130 Cigarette papers, tubes, filters 
   
   
   
Explanation
Retail packaging and grouped packaging for cigarette tobacco and pipe tobacco in quantities of 1.5 kg 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 as well as cultural and recreational facilities, administrations and authorities.

Shipment packaging for cigarette tobacco and pipe tobacco 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: 24-000-0050 // Cigarette tobacco, pipe tobacco

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 > 1.5 kg no
All types All types ≤ 1.5 kg yes
Glass Jars, pots ≤ 1.5 kg yes
Natural materials Boxes ≤ 1.5 kg yes
Other composite packaging Composite cans ≤ 1.5 kg yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Crates, boxes ≤ 1.5 kg yes
Plastic Bags, cans ≤ 1.5 kg yes
Tinplate Cans, cases ≤ 1.5 kg yes
Shipment packaging (retail packaging) and grouped packaging
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Shipment packaging All types yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Wrappings, folding cartons, outer boxes made of cardboard ≤ 1.5 kg yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Wrappings, folding cartons, outer boxes made of cardboard > 1.5 kg no
Plastic Multi-piece packaging, wrappings ≤ 1.5 kg yes
Plastic Multi-piece packaging, wrappings > 1.5 kg no
Plastic Shipment packaging All types yes

Detailed system participation requirement overview - Product: 24-000-0050 // Cigarette tobacco, pipe tobacco

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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 > 1.5 kg no
All types All types ≤ 1.5 kg yes
Glass Jars, pots 200 g yes
Other composite packaging Composite cans 50 g yes
Other composite packaging Composite cans 76 g yes
Other composite packaging Composite cans 100 g yes
Other composite packaging Composite cans 175 g yes
Other composite packaging Composite cans 200 g yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Crates 100 g yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Pouch packaging 30 g yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Pouch packaging 40 g yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Shoulder boxes 12 g yes
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