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Definition sheet with explanations

Product group no. Product group Product no. Product
24-000 Tobacco products 24-000-0090 E-cigarettes, vapes
Product description
E-cigarettes are devices designed to mimic the experience of smoking a cigarette by vaporising e-liquids or tobacco sticks. E-cigarettes are also available as disposable products.
Product in detail Not classified here
Basic equipment for electronic shishas, e-shishas
E-cigarettes, vapes
E-cigarettes and vapes starter kits
Electronic shishas, e-shishas
24-000-0030 Cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos 
24-000-0110 Liquids for e-cigarettes and vapes 
24-000-0050 Cigarette tobacco, pipe tobacco 
   
Explanation
Retail packaging and grouped packaging for e-cigarettes and vapes in quantities of 5 items or fewer 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).

Shipment packaging for e-cigarettes and vapes 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: 24-000-0090 // E-cigarettes, vapes

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 > 5 Item(s) no
All types All types ≤ 5 Item(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes ≤ 5 Item(s) 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 > 5 Item(s) no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Wrappings, folding cartons, outer boxes made of cardboard ≤ 5 Item(s) yes
Plastic Multi-piece packaging, wrappings ≤ 5 Item(s) yes
Plastic Multi-piece packaging, wrappings > 5 Item(s) no
Plastic Shipment packaging All types yes

Detailed system participation requirement overview - Product: 24-000-0090 // E-cigarettes, vapes

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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 ≤ 5 Item(s) yes
All types All types > 5 Item(s) no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes 1 Item(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes 2 Item(s) 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 > 5 Item(s) no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Wrappings, folding cartons, outer boxes made of cardboard ≤ 5 Item(s) yes
Plastic Multi-piece packaging, wrappings > 5 Item(s) no
Plastic Multi-piece packaging, wrappings ≤ 5 Item(s) yes
Plastic Shipment packaging All types yes
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