This draft legislation approves the necessary updates to Decree-Law No 152-D/2017 of 11 December 2017, which was moved to a later date than that of the approval of Decree-Law No 102-D/2020 of 10 December 2020 in order to not compromise the speed of the transposition of the Directives included in the latter and in order to comply with the procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical regulations and of rules on Information Society services, provided for in Directive (EU) 2015/1535 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 September 2015.

This draft legislation is the fifth update to Decree-Law No 152-D/2017 of 11 December 2017, introducing the requirement to mark reusable packaging and packaging managed under the deposit system, as well as the requirement to mark recyclable packaging with the indication of its appropriate destination. The draft Decree-Law also provides for the obligation for waste treatment operators to prove annually to the licensing entity that they have complied with the qualification requirements and applicable standards by means of a document issued by qualified verifiers.