PPWR Readiness Guide
Is your packaging evidence and supplier data ready for PPWR compliance? Find out with this guide.
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Sustenuto operationalises PPWR compliance for large organisations with worldwide activities and EU market access, built on 20 years of experience implementing operational compliance across European markets.
Our PPWR Information Package gives you a structured path through the 2026 packaging rules, conformity assessments, and the reporting that keeps products moving across borders. Done well, this delivers three things: business continuity and risk control, operational efficiency and cost transparency, and customer confidence and revenue protection.
We put together a PPWR Info Package for the teams doing this work. Five documents covering roles, readiness, stakeholders, common questions and conformity documentation. Built by our PPWR advisors from the regulation text and the European Commission guidance, for sustainability, quality, regulatory and procurement teams, and for the finance and management people who carry this across the business.
What's in the PPWR information package
Compliance Readiness Guide
Self-Assessment
Stakeholder Mapping Tool
Frequently Asked Questions
Declaration of Conformity
Compliance Readiness Guide
What practical readiness looks like, and how to build it across products, sites, suppliers and markets.
Packaging data usually sits in different systems and different teams. This guide sets out an operating model for bringing it together into proof you can produce when a customer or an authority asks.
It separates the obligations that apply now from those arriving towards 2030, and explains the six failure patterns we see most often in implementation. It closes with an executive readiness checklist covering ten areas, from working out which legal role you hold to keeping documents current when a supplier or material changes.
Self-Assessment
Where your organisation stands, and which roles you actually hold.
A ten-point self-assessment covering scope, packaging inventory, technical documentation, Declarations of Conformity, supplier evidence, EPR data and governance.
It includes questions on which legal role your company holds, the exercise that decides everything downstream and the one most often got wrong. A company can be manufacturer in one market and only distributor in another, and the obligations are not the same. Not sure is a valid answer, and a useful one.
Stakeholder Mapping Tool
Who carries which obligation, across the whole chain.
An interactive map of every economic operator under the Regulation, from converter and filler through producer, importer and distributor to fulfilment service providers and authorised representatives. Each role opens to show its legal basis and what it is responsible for.
Every card is marked according to whether the position is verified against the regulation text or drawn from Commission guidance, so you can see where the answer is settled and where interpretation is still developing. Useful for working out your own position, and for explaining to a customer or a supplier why theirs is different.
Frequently Asked Questions
Eighteen questions, answered against the source.
Covering regulatory roles, transport packaging and third-party logistics, how to check a supplier's Declaration of Conformity, the Annex VII technical documentation that has to sit behind it, recyclability grading, recycled content in plastic packaging, EPR registration across Member States, authorised representatives, labelling, and what happens to stock already produced.
Each answer cites the article it rests on, and distinguishes what the Regulation says from what Commission guidance adds.
Declaration of Conformity
The document authorities and customers will ask to see, ready to fill in.
A template following the Annex VIII model, the format the Regulation requires, scoped to the obligations binding now, with each article marked as applicable or not yet applicable. It comes with the Module A register, the supporting evidence file that sits behind the declaration, so the two stay connected. A declaration is only as good as the file behind it, and that is usually what is missing.
PPWR Readiness Guide
Is your packaging evidence and supplier data ready for PPWR compliance? Find out with this guide.
Request the guide
For more information on PPWR, read our insight: PPWR 2026: Compliance Readiness & Packaging Rules · Sustenuto
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