Regulation (EU) 2025/40 does not arrive all at once. Substance limits, declarations and producer registration bite first; recyclability grading, recycled content and the empty-space cap follow in 2030. Several rules still depend on acts the Commission has not adopted — those are marked, not guessed.
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"Act pending" means the obligation exists but the detail depends on a delegated or implementing act that has not been adopted. Any calculation in the app that rests on one is flagged provisional and names the act.
12 August 2026 is when packaging placed on the EU market needs a technical file, a declaration of conformity, an identification mark that matches it, and a producer registration in every market you sell into. None of that can be produced retrospectively for stock already on shelves.
Heavy metals summed to 100 mg/kg per component, and PFAS limits on food-contact packaging with no stock-exhaustion transition.
An on-pack identification mark matching the declaration number, plus operator name and address.
Producer registration per Member State, and an authorised representative where you sell across a border.
Import your products and the audit workflow shows, per SKU, which of these obligations you already meet and which are open.