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Definition sheet with explanations

Product group no. Product group Product no. Product
31-000 Office supplies 31-000-0050 Notebooks, register books
Product description
Books with blank pages for collecting ideas, remarks and notes of all kinds
Product in detail Not classified here
Diaries
Register books
Notebooks
31-000-0060 Albums, calendars 
   
   
Explanation
Retail packaging and grouped packaging for notebooks and register books with 2,500 sheets or fewer are subject to system participation because they typically accumulate as waste with private final consumers – i.e. private households and comparable sources of waste generation (within the meaning of section 3 (11) VerpackG) such as freelancers, service enterprises, administrations and administrative sections of companies, especially in trade and manufacturing.

Shipment packaging for notebooks and register books of all kinds typically accumulates as waste with private final consumers – i.e. private households and comparable sources of waste generation and, as such, is subject to system participation.

Brief system participation requirement overview - Product: 31-000-0050 // Notebooks, register books

Packaging material
Packaging material×

Abbreviations:

PPC stands for paper, paperboard or cardboard.
PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate (a type of plastic).
PE stands for polyethylene (a type of plastic).

Composite packaging is packaging made from at least two material types that cannot be separated by hand.

 		Shape/form
Shape/form×

This section shows the typical packaging types for the product group under consideration.

IBC is the abbreviation for intermediate bulk container. An IBC is a large, cuboid container for liquid and free-flowing materials.

An octabin is an octagonal container used to transport and store bulk materials.

 		Delineation criterion
Delineation criterion ×

Criterion that relates to a specific product and determines whether the shipment, retail or grouped packaging in question is subject to system participation.

For food packaging, that delineation criterion often is quantity. For packaging filled with other products, the delineation criterion tends to be the number/volume or unit of the individual products contained in the packaging. Depending on the product, other criteria may be used within the scope of an overall market assessment to delineate or determine whether the system participation requirement applies to a packaging, such as the stress class in the case of laminate products.

 		System participation requirement
Retail packaging
All types All types > 2500 Sheet(s) no
All types All types ≤ 2500 Sheet(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes ≤ 2500 Sheet(s) yes
Plastic Bags, wrappings ≤ 2500 Sheet(s) yes
Shipment packaging (retail packaging) and grouped packaging
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes, outer boxes made of cardboard ≤ 2500 Sheet(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Folding boxes, outer boxes made of cardboard > 2500 Sheet(s) no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Shipment packaging All types yes
Plastic Multi-piece packaging, wrappings > 2500 Sheet(s) no
Plastic Multi-piece packaging, wrappings ≤ 2500 Sheet(s) yes
Plastic Shipment packaging All types yes

Detailed system participation requirement overview - Product: 31-000-0050 // Notebooks, register books

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Packaging material
Packaging material×

Abbreviations:

PPC stands for paper, paperboard or cardboard.
PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate (a type of plastic).
PE stands for polyethylene (a type of plastic).

Composite packaging is packaging made from at least two material types that cannot be separated by hand.

 		Shape/form
Shape/form×

This section shows the typical packaging types for the product group under consideration.

IBC is the abbreviation for intermediate bulk container. An IBC is a large, cuboid container for liquid and free-flowing materials.

An octabin is an octagonal container used to transport and store bulk materials.

 		Quantity/volume
exemplary listing 		System participation requirement
Retail packaging
All types All types ≤ 2500 Sheet(s) yes
All types All types > 2500 Sheet(s) no
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 48 Sheet(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 50 Sheet(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 80 Sheet(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 90 Sheet(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 96 Sheet(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 100 Sheet(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 120 Sheet(s) yes
Paper/paperboard/cardboard Boxes 144 Sheet(s) yes
Plastic Bags, wrappings 48 Sheet(s) yes
Plastic Bags, wrappings 50 Sheet(s) yes
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