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Definition sheet with explanations

Product group no. Product group Product no. Product
31-000 Office supplies 31-000-0270 Office equipment, other office supplies
Product description
All kinds of consumer goods needed in the office
Product in detail Not classified here
Measuring sticks, yard sticks, measuring tapes, rulers
Rubbers, erasing knives, pencil sharpeners
Cash boxes, organisation charts
Other office equipment made of metal
Punchers, staplers, staple pullers, paper scissors
Precision scales, letter scales
Drafting machines, drafting tables, tools for drafting, plotting and calculating
Stamps, stamp racks, pen trays
22-000-0290 Kitchen scales, bathroom scales 
22-000-0190 Cutlery, cutting utensils 
31-000-0250 Storage boxes, organiser boxes 
   
   
   
   
   
Explanation
Retail packaging for office equipment and other office supplies in quantities of 15 items or fewer is subject to system participation because it typically accumulates 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 educational institutions, administrations and administrative sections of companies, especially in trade and manufacturing.

Shipment packaging for office equipment and other office supplies 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: 31-000-0270 // Office equipment, other office supplies

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 ≤ 15 Item(s) yes
All types All types > 15 Item(s) no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Bags, blister packs, boxes, skin packaging ≤ 15 Item(s) yes
Plastic Bags, boxes, wrappings, boxes ≤ 15 Item(s) yes
Plastic Blister packs, skin packaging ≤ 15 Item(s) yes
Shipment packaging (retail packaging) and grouped packaging
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Shipment packaging All types yes
Plastic Shipment packaging All types yes

Detailed system participation requirement overview - Product: 31-000-0270 // Office equipment, other office supplies

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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 > 15 Item(s) no
All types All types ≤ 15 Item(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Bags, wrappings 1 Item(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Blister packs 1 Item(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Blister packs 2 Item(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 1 Item(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 9 Item(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 12 Item(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 20 Item(s) no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 24 Item(s) no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 40 Item(s) no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 100 Item(s) no
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