A person who, outside a professional activity, purchases or imports packaging, packaged articles or packaged goods for their own use.

The collection of waste, including sorting and preliminary storage, for the purpose of transport to treatment plants.

Packaging made of different materials that cannot be separated by hand. Example: beverage cartons (paper + plastic + aluminium).

The use of combustible waste to produce energy through waste to energy processes.

This refers to packaged goods and to the packaging of those goods only. Example: beer cans and their secondary or tertiary packaging.

The CONAI EPR Fee applies to the first transfer of the finished packaging from the last producer to the first user.

The recipient of the first transfer. Example: a footwear manufacturer purchasing boxes to package shoes.

CONAI is required under Article 225 to draw up a programme containing measures on: prevention, recyclability, reuse, improvement of packaging, and recovery and recycling targets.

Packaging made of separate components that can be separated by hand. Example: a box of chocolates (paper + plastic).

A company that, over a given period, has exported a higher weight of filled packaging than the weight of filled packaging it has imported, for each packaging material.

Article 223 of Legislative Decree 152/06 provides for the establishment of a Consortium for each packaging material: steel, aluminium, paper, wood, plastic and glass. Examples: RICREA, Comieco, Rilegno, Corepla, etc.
Alternatives to membership are also provided for under Article 221, paragraph 3.

Suppliers of packaging material, manufacturers, processors and importers of empty packaging or packaging materials.

Traders, distributors, fillers, users of packaging and importers of filled packaging.

Any packaging or packaging material that the holder discards or intends to discard.

Packaging that constitutes a sales unit for the end user or consumer. It is the packaging that contains the individual product ready for consumption.

Operations carried out to generate secondary raw materials, products or fuels through mechanical, thermal, chemical or biological treatments.

The reprocessing of packaging waste for its original function or for other purposes, including organic recycling (excluding energy recovery).

When packaging that can be used more than once is refilled or reused without becoming waste.

Packaging that groups several sales units together and can be removed without altering the product. Example: multipacks.

The operation through which a packaging producer uses other packaging – manufactured by the producer itself – to package its own products.

Entities that purchase raw materials and packaging materials in order to manufacture or repair packaging used to package their own products. A self producer is also considered a user for the raw material employed to repair its own packaging.

Anyone who purchases packaging or packaged goods after the first transfer.

Packaging intended to facilitate the handling and transport of goods. It protects them during handling.

As defined by Article 183, this is “the producer of the waste or the natural or legal person in possession of it”.

According to Article 183: collection, transport, recovery, disposal, checks on operations and post closure interventions at disposal sites, including trading and brokerage activities.