What changed between the adopted text of 13 Mar 2024 and the adopted text of 9 Sept 2025

Removed:‘Article 9a Prevention of food waste generation

Removed:1. Member States shall take appropriate measures to prevent generation of food waste along the entire food supply chain, in primary production, in processing and manufacturing, in retail and other distribution of food, in restaurants and food services as well as in households. Those measures shall include, but not be limited to, the following: [Am. 32]

Removed:(a) developing and supporting behavioural change interventions to reduce food waste, and information campaigns to raise awareness about food waste prevention as well as food production; [Am. 33]

Removed:(b) identifying and addressing inefficiencies in the functioning of the food supply chain and support cooperation amongst all actors, while ensuring a fair distribution of costs and benefits of prevention measures, which may include:

Removed:- the promotion of fruits and vegetables with external defects that are not compliant with EU or UNECE marketing standards, but still suitable and safe for local or direct consumption, as set out in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2429* ("ugly" fruits and vegetables); and

Removed:- tackling market practices that cause food waste, including those set out in Directive (EU) 2019/633** of the European Parliament and of the Council; [Am. 34]

Removed:(c) encouraging, food donation and other ensuring redistribution for human consumption, prioritising human use over animal feed and the reprocessing into non-food products; [Am. 35]

Removed:(d) supporting training and skills development, including in local authorities, as well as facilitating access to funding opportunities, in particular for small and medium sized enterprises and social economy actors.; [Am. 36]

Removed:(da) encouraging and promoting innovation and technological solutions which contribute to the prevention of food waste, such as intelligent packaging intended to extend the shelf-life or to maintain or improve the condition of packaged food in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 450/2009***, especially during transportation and storage, and clearer date labelling on food products and user-friendly tools to reduce confusion and facilitate the use of date markings, in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, contributing to the prevention of unnecessary discarding of food items which are still safe for consumption. [Am. 37]

Removed:Member States shall ensure that all relevant actors in the supply chain are involved proportionately to their capacity and role in generating food waste and in preventing the generation of food waste along the food supply chain, with a specific focus on preventing disproportionate impact on small and medium sized enterprises. Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure that economic operators make available for donation unsold food that is safe for human consumption. [Am. 38]

Removed:2. Member States shall monitor and assess the implementation of their food waste prevention measures, including compliance with the food waste reduction targets referred to in paragraph 4, by measuring the levels of food waste on the basis of the methodology established in accordance with paragraph 3. [Am. 39]

Removed:3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38a to amend Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2019/1597 and supplement this Directive as regards laying down a common methodology and minimum quality requirements for the uniform measurement of food waste levels. [Am. 40]

Removed:3a. The methodology, measurement methods and data used to measure the levels of food waste referred to in paragraph 3 shall be made publicly available. [Am. 41]

Removed:4. Member States shall take the necessary and appropriate measures to achieve, by 31 December 2030, the following food waste reduction targets at national level:

Removed:(a) reduce the generation of food waste in processing and manufacturing by 10 at least 20 % in comparison to the amount generated in 2020 as an annual average between 2020 and 2022; [Am. 42]

Removed:(b) reduce the generation of food waste per capita, jointly in retail and other distribution of food, in restaurants and food services and in households, by 30 at least 40 % in comparison to the amount generated in 2020 as an annual average between 2020 and 2022. [Am. 43]

Removed:5. Where a Member State can provide data for a reference year prior to 2020, which have been collected using methods comparable to the methodology and minimum quality requirements for the uniform measurement of levels of food waste as set out in the Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2019/1597, an earlier reference year may be used. That earlier reference year shall apply to both of the targets referred to in paragraph 4, points (a) and (b). The Member State shall notify the Commission and the other Member States of its intention to use an earlier reference year within 18 months of the entry into force of this Directive and shall provide the Commission with the data and measurement methods used to collect them and make them publicly available. [Am. 44]

Removed:6. When the Commission considers that the data do not comply with the conditions set out in paragraph 5, it shall, within 6 months of the receipt of a notification made in accordance with paragraph 5, adopt a decision requesting the Member State to either use 2020 or a year other than that proposed by the Member State as reference year.

Removed:7. By 31 December 2027, the Commission shall review the targets to be reached by 2030, laid down in paragraph 4, with a view, if appropriate, to modify and/or extend them to other stages of the food supply chain, and to consider setting new targets beyond 2030. To that end, the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council, accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal.;

Removed:7a. Member States are encouraged to coordinate their actions to prevent food waste and share best practices. [Am. 45]

Removed:7b. By 31 December 2025, the Commission shall conduct an assessment on the appropriate levels for the setting of targets for the reduction of all primary production food waste, including mature food left unharvested or used on farms. To that end, the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council, accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal. [Am. 46]

Removed:7c. By 31 December 2027, the Commission shall carry out an evaluation of the possibility to introduce a binding target of at least 30 % with respect to Article 9a(4), point (a), and at least 50 % with respect to Article 9a(4), point (b), to be reached by 2035 and submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council which may be accompanied by appropriate legislative proposal to implement such target. [Am. 47]

Removed:________________

Removed:* Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2429 of 17 August 2023 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards marketing standards for the fruit and vegetables sector, certain processed fruit and vegetable products and the bananas sector, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 1666/1999 and Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) No 543/2011 and (EU) No 1333/2011 (OJ L, 2023/2429, 03.11.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2023/2429/oj).

Removed:** Directive (EU) 2019/633 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain (OJ L 111, 25.4.2019, p. 59).

Removed:*** Commission Regulation (EC) No 450/2009 of 29 May 2009 on active and intelligent materials and articles intended to come into contact with food (OJ L 135, 30.5.2009, p. 3).’;

Removed:(4a) In Article 10, the following paragraph is inserted:

Removed:‘2a. Member States are encouraged, where appropriate, to introduce prior sorting of municipal mixed waste to prevent waste, which can be recovered for preparing for re-use, or recycling, from being sent to waste incineration or disposed in landfills.’; [Am. 48]

Removed:(4b) In Article 10, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

Removed:‘4. Member States shall take measures to ensure that waste that has been separately collected for preparing for re-use and recycling pursuant to Article 11(1) and Article 22 is not incinerated or landfilled, with the exception of waste resulting from subsequent treatment operations of the separately collected waste for which incineration delivers the best environmental outcome in accordance with Article 4.’; [Am. 49]

Removed:(5) in Article 11, paragraph 1, the third sentencesubparagraph is replaced by the following:

Removed:'Subject to Article 10(2) and (3), Member States shall set up separate collection at least for paper, metal, plastic and glass, and, by 1 January 2025, for textiles, and shall be encouraged to set up separate collection for wood.'; [Am. 50]

Removed:(5a) In Article 11, the following subparagraph is inserted after the third subparagraph:

Removed:‘Member States shall undertake necessary measures to ensure sufficient infrastructure is in place for separate collection of waste and is made easily accessible, for all kinds of waste, and where appropriate, shall increase the number of points of separated waste collection. Where municipal waste collection systems are necessary for improvement, Member States shall do so without undue delay.’; [Am. 51]

Removed:(6) in Article 11b, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

Removed:‘1. The Commission shall, in cooperation with the European Environment Agency, draw up reports on the progress towards the attainment of the targets laid down in Article 9a(4), Article 11(2), points (c), (d), and (e), and Article 11 (3) at the latest three years before each deadline laid down therein.’;

Removed:(7) the following Articles 22a to 22d are inserted:

Removed:‘Article 22a Extended producer responsibility scheme for textiles

Removed:1. Member States shall ensure that producers have extended producer responsibility for household textile products, articles of apparel, clothing accessories and footwear, apparel and clothing accessories listed in Annex IVc (“textile, textile-related and footwear products”) that they make available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State, in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a. [Am. 52]

Removed:1a. By 31 December 2024, the Commission shall adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 38a to supplement this Directive as regards laying down further rules on the establishment of extended producer responsibility for personal protection equipment as referred to in Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council*. [Am. 53]

Removed:1b. By 31 December 2027, Member States shall ensure that producers of carpets and mattresses as referred to in Part 2a (new) of Annex IVc, whose main composition is textile, that make available those carpets and mattresses on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State, shall have extended producer responsibility in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a. Member States may decide to establish a separate extended producer responsibility scheme specifically for those items. [Am. 54]

Removed:2. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38a to expand the scope of Annex IVc and to amend Annex IVc to this Directive in order to bring the Combined Nomenclature codes listed in Annex IVc to this Directive in line with the codes listed in Annex 1 to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87**. [Am. 55]

Removed:3. Member States shall define in a clear, inclusive and balanced way, in accordance with Article 8a (1), point (a), way the roles and responsibilities of relevant actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and verification of the extended producer responsibility scheme referred to in paragraph 1. Member States shall ensure that all relevant actors are fully involved in the decision-making process of the extended producer responsibility scheme. Those relevant actors shall include:

Removed:(a) producers placing products on the market of the Member State;

Removed:(b) organisations implementing extended producer responsibility obligations on their behalf;

Removed:(c) private or public waste operators;

Removed:(d) local authorities;

Removed:(e) re-use and preparing for re-use operators;

Removed:(f) social enterprises, including local social enterprises. [Am. 56]

Removed:4. Member States shall ensure that the producers of textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs of the following:

Removed:(a) collection of used and waste textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc and subsequent waste management that entails the following:

Removed:(1) the collection of those used textile products for re-use and the separate collection of waste textile products for preparationpreparing for re-use and recycling in accordance with Articles 22c and 22d,; [Am. 57]

Removed:(2) transport of collected loads referred to in point (1) for subsequent sorting for re-use, for preparationpreparing for re-use and for recycling operations in accordance with Article 22d,; [Am. 58]

Removed:(3) sorting, preparationpreparing for re-use, recycling and other recovery operations and disposal of collected loads referred to in point (1),; [Am. 59]

Removed:(4) collection, transport and treatment referred to in points (1) and (2) of waste generated by social enterprises and other non-waste operators that are part of the collection system referred to in Article 22c, paragraphs 5 and 11; [Am. 60]

Removed:(b) carrying out compositional survey of collected mixed municipal waste in accordance with Article 22d(6);

Removed:(c) providing information, including via appropriate information campaigns and communication work, on sustainable consumption, waste prevention, re-use, preparing for re-use, recycling, other recovery and disposal of textiles and footwear products in accordance with Article 22c(13), (14) and (17); [Am. 61]

Removed:(d) data gathering and reporting to the competent authorities in accordance with Article 37;

Removed:(e) support to research and development to improve the sorting and recycling processes in line with the waste hierarchy referred to in Article 4, in particular, in view of scaling up fibre-to-fibre recycling, without prejudice to Union state aid rules.; [Am. 62]

Removed:(ea) reuse and repair operations, including research and development for their improvement. [Am. 63]