{"id":281446,"date":"2025-07-22T03:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281446\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:24:24","slug":"eu-sues-france-for-telling-people-how-to-recycle-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281446\/","title":{"rendered":"EU sues France for telling people how to recycle \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under French law, producers of goods like packaging, textiles, phones or even gardening equipment must include a sorting label \u2014 known in France as the \u201cTriman\u201d logo or \u201cInfo-tri\u201d label \u2014 on their products, so citizens can be informed about how to dispose of them properly.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced in 2022, the labels use symbols to explain which parts of the products go in which bin. Paris and Brussels have been fighting over them ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels wants to harmonize labelling rules at the EU level. The bloc introduced new <a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/PDF\/?uri=OJ:L_202500040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">packaging rules<\/a> last year that will require all packaging placed on the EU market to have a &#8220;harmonised label containing information on its material composition in order to facilitate consumer sorting.&#8221; That requirement doesn&#8217;t take effect until August 2028, however.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission argues that until the EU-wide rules are implemented, enforcing the use of a specific label at the national level is \u201cdisproportionate\u201d and represents &#8220;an obstacle to the free movement of goods,\u201d it said in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/inf_25_1628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a press statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Companies have complained for years that differing national requirements regarding waste labels across EU member countries make it harder and more expensive for them to sell goods in the bloc&#8217;s market, as they are forced to adapt their packaging to meet national rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years, [the Triman logo] has inflicted a disproportionate impact on European companies, incurring costs to modify the artwork on their packaging for the French market,&#8221; said Francesca Stevens, secretary general at packaging lobby Europen, adding that businesses have had &#8220;to bear extra costs of significant scale to comply with this unilateral label requirement.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under French law, producers of goods like packaging, textiles, phones or even gardening equipment must include a sorting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2437,30,2000,299,36,14790,2441,84907,6861,1201,12339],"class_list":{"0":"post-281446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-companies","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-labels","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-packaging","16":"tag-single-market","17":"tag-trade","18":"tag-waste"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114894750575821829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}