Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on packaging and packaging waste enters its application phase in all European Union countries today, 12 August 2026. What changes from today on packaging: EU Regulation 2025/40What really changes in August? Packaging bans coming in 2030As we said at the beginning, there are other deadlines that EU countries must respect. While the watershed date is January 1, 2030, when bans on various formats of single-use plastic packaging come into force. The roadmap to 2040Meanwhile, Member States will have to reduce packaging waste per capita by 5% compared to 2018 and achieve, again by the end of 2030, the recycling of 70% of all packaging waste, with specific thresholds for each material.