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Monthly Monitor-July 2026 Food Contact Materials and Circular Economy

Food Contact Materials and Circular Economy

Modification to the Start of the Submission Period for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Under the Toxic Substances Control Act — Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirement

Coverage date: 23 August 2026 
Primary monitoring window: measures published or amended during July 2026, plus older measures with a material compliance, application, reporting or enforcement milestone after 1 July 2026. 

Jurisdictions: United States, European Union, United Kingdom, China, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Taiwan, Australia, India, Russia/EAEU. 
Scope and Regulatory Outlook

This review prioritised official regulatory and government sources identified in the brief and applied the requested date filter. It is a best-effort comprehensive scan of publicly indexed official material available as of 23 August 2026. “No relevant updates found” therefore means that I did not identify a verifiable official item meeting the defined July/forward-compliance window; it should not be interpreted as proof that no administrative activity of any kind occurred, particularly in jurisdictions where official databases are poorly indexed. 

The most consequential development is clearly the European Union. As of 23 August, companies should already have crossed two major 2026 food-contact deadlines: the general 20 July 2026 BPA transitional cut-off under the EU bisphenol regime and the 12 August 2026 application of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), including its PFAS restriction for food-contact packaging. A further EU transition expires on 16 September 2026 under the revised plastics food-contact framework. [1] 

Outside the EU, the strongest forward-looking compliance signals are the United States' TSCA PFAS reporting regime, Canada's continuing Federal Plastics Registry reporting obligations, and Taiwan's future resin-identification requirement for certain flat plastic packaging. The UK is meanwhile moving from packaging-EPR rulemaking into increasingly detailed operational reporting and verification requirements. [2] 

Priority compliance calendar

Date
Jurisdiction
Development
Business priority
Date20 July 2026
JurisdictionEU
DevelopmentGeneral BPA food-contact transition ended for relevant single-use and repeat-use articles.
Business priorityImmediate
Date12 August 2026
JurisdictionEU
DevelopmentPPWR became applicable; PFAS limits apply to food-contact packaging.
Business priorityImmediate
Date16 September 2026
JurisdictionEU
DevelopmentTransition under revised plastic FCM rules ends for relevant legacy-compliant final articles.
Business priorityImmediate / near-term
DateBy 31 January 2027 under the current EPA timing rule
JurisdictionUnited States
DevelopmentTSCA PFAS reporting submission period is expected to start, unless triggered earlier by the related rulemaking mechanism.
Business priorityPrepare now
DateDuring 2027
JurisdictionCanada
DevelopmentPhase 1 Federal Plastics Registry reporting continues for 2026 calendar-year data.
Business priorityData readiness
Date1 July 2027
JurisdictionTaiwan
DevelopmentResin-identification requirements begin for specified plastic liners and blister-type flat packaging.
Business priorityDesign / artwork planning

The EU dates and US, Canadian and Taiwanese milestones derive from the respective official instruments and guidance.[3]

United States

Modification to the Start of the Submission Period for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Under the Toxic Substances Control Act — Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirement

Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Federal Register 
Publication date: 13 April 2026 
Status: Final rule; future reporting milestone. 
EPA amended the timing of its TSCA section 8(a)(7) PFAS reporting rule. Under the April 2026 final rule, the submission period is now scheduled to start on 31 January 2027 or 60 days after publication of the related final rule referenced in 40 CFR 705.20(c), whichever occurs earlier. The action modifies the reporting start date while EPA continues separate rulemaking concerning the scope of the PFAS reporting program. [4] 

The underlying TSCA regime is important to packaging and food companies because the reporting rule reaches manufacturers and importers of PFAS, including PFAS contained in articles, subject to the applicable regulatory scope. EPA has separately proposed exemptions and scope changes, but those proposed changes should not be treated as final relief until EPA completes that rulemaking. [5] 

Impact
Companies importing packaging, processing equipment, coatings, treated papers, fluoropolymer-containing components or other articles potentially containing PFAS should use the additional time to reconstruct the required historical supply-chain information rather than interpreting the delay as cancellation. A defensible program should document supplier inquiries, material composition information, historical import records and the assumptions used where data are unavailable. Companies should also maintain a regulatory watch on the separate EPA scope rule because it may materially change who ultimately reports. [6] 

Official source URLs: 
https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/tsca-section-8a7-reporting-and-recordkeeping 
https://www.federalregister.gov/ 

FDA food-contact scan. No relevant July 2026 FDA food-contact regulation, guidance or Federal Register action meeting the defined newsletter window was verified in the official-source scan. The EPA PFAS reporting development above is therefore the principal federal food-packaging-adjacent compliance item captured for the United States. 

Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act (H.R.2145) (US House E&C Subcommittee, 14 May 2026)

The House Environment Subcommittee advanced H.R.2145 (the “Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act”), amended to include H.R.4109. This draft law would fund recycling bins and facilities and improve data reporting across U.S. communities[1]. Impact: If enacted, the law supports expansion of recycling programs. While it does not directly impose new packaging rules, it underscores a shift toward mandatory recycling. Food and beverage companies should monitor this bill, as its implementation could herald producer obligations (e.g. standardized labeling, expanded EPR) in the near future.

Canada

Notice amending the Notice with respect to reporting of plastic resins and certain plastic products for the Federal Plastics Registry for 2024, 2025 and 2026

Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada / Canada Gazette 
Publication date: 14 March 2026 
Status: Binding information-gathering notice with post-July reporting obligations. 

Environment and Climate Change Canada postponed Phases 2 and 3 of Federal Plastics Registry reporting, but it explicitly retained Phase 1 reporting for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 calendar years. For 2025 and 2026, the current requirement primarily covers producers that manufacture, import and place plastic packaging, electrical/electronic equipment, and single-use or disposable plastic products on the Canadian market. Government guidance confirms that 2026 calendar-year Phase 1 data are to be reported in 2027. [7] 

Packaging is expressly within the Registry's scope. The government also notes that obligated companies may need information from foreign suppliers concerning the plastic composition of products and packaging and has issued a foreign-supplier letter to help obtain it. Failure to comply with the section 46 reporting notice can expose an obligated organization to enforcement under CEPA. [8] 

Impact. The postponement reduces the immediate breadth of Registry data collection, but it does not remove the basic packaging reporting requirement. Canadian manufacturers, importers and brand owners should continue maintaining polymer-type, quantity and market-placement records through 2026. Importers in particular should make plastic-composition data part of routine supplier specifications and purchasing documentation rather than attempting to reconstruct it at reporting time. [8] 

Official source URLs: 
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/managing-reducing-waste/reduce-plastic-waste/federal-plastics-registry.html 
https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2026/2026-03-14/html/notice-avis-eng.html 
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/managing-reducing-waste/reduce-plastic-waste/federal-plastics-registry/guide-reporting-phase-1.html 

European Union

Regulation (EU) 2025/40 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 December 2024 on packaging and packaging waste, amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and Directive (EU) 2019/904, and repealing Directive 94/62/EC 

Source: European Parliament/Council; Official Journal / EUR-Lex 
Published: January 2025 
Application date: 12 August 2026
This is the highest-priority packaging compliance development in the newsletter. Regulation (EU) 2025/40 became generally applicable on 12 August 2026, replacing the directive-based packaging framework with an EU regulation. The PPWR introduces a progressively expanding set of requirements covering packaging composition, substances of concern, recyclability, minimisation, recycled content, reuse, labelling, producer responsibility and waste management, with individual requirements phased in on different dates. [12]

For food companies, the most immediate special provision is the restriction on PFAS in food-contact packaging. From 12 August 2026, food-contact packaging cannot be placed on the EU market where PFAS concentrations meet or exceed the limits specified in Article 5(5). The Regulation uses multiple measurement thresholds, including targeted PFAS limits and a broader total-fluorine/PFAS threshold intended to capture polymeric PFAS. [13]

The Commission's June 2026 implementation guidance further clarified an especially important inventory point: packaging containing PFAS that was produced before 12 August does not obtain a blanket “stock exhaustion” exemption simply because it was manufactured before the application date. Food-contact packaging placed on the market from 12 August 2026 must meet the PPWR restriction. [14]

Impact. Any company selling food in the EU should now have a documented PFAS-in-packaging compliance program, not merely a supplier statement saying “PFAS not intentionally added.” Supplier declarations should identify relevant coatings, grease barriers, paper treatments, inks and processing aids and be supported by appropriate analytical or compositional evidence where risk warrants it. Legacy packaging inventories require particular attention because manufacturing date alone does not resolve the placing-on-market requirement. [15]

The broader PPWR also makes packaging compliance increasingly a product-development issue rather than an end-of-life reporting exercise. Packaging R&D, procurement, sustainability and regulatory teams should maintain a single PPWR implementation matrix identifying which provisions apply by packaging type and their individual effective dates rather than treating 12 August 2026 as if every PPWR requirement became operative simultaneously. [16]

Official source URLs:
Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on EUR-Lex (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/40/oj/eng)
European Commission: Packaging waste (https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/packaging-waste_en)

Commission guidance on Regulation (EU) 2025/40

Source: European Commission
Document date: 5 June 2026
Reference: C(2026) 3702 final

The Commission guidance was issued specifically to support interpretation of the PPWR ahead of its August application. Among its most commercially significant points is the treatment of the food-contact PFAS prohibition and packaging already manufactured before 12 August 2026. [17]

Impact. Regulatory teams should use the Commission guidance as part of their documented PPWR interpretation file, particularly where commercial teams are proposing continued sale of legacy packaging stocks. Internal legal opinions or supplier statements that pre-date the guidance should be revisited where they assumed a general sell-through period. [14]

Official source URL:
Commission guidance C(2026) 3702 final (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=intcom%3AC%282026%293702)

Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/3190 on bisphenol A and other bisphenols, as corrected by Regulation (EU) 2026/250

Source: European Commission / EUR-Lex
Correcting regulation: February 2026
Key general transition: 20 July 2026

The principal general BPA transition expired on 20 July 2026. Under the corrected transitional regime, relevant single-use final food-contact articles manufactured using BPA in accordance with the previous rules could generally be first placed on the market until that date. Comparable transitional arrangements apply to repeat-use final food-contact articles. Specific categories have longer derogations, including certain preservation packaging, specified external metal coatings and professional food-production equipment, with some deadlines extending into 2028 and subsequent sell-through/use provisions. [18]

The regime should therefore not be simplified to “all BPA prohibited from July 2026.” The correct compliance answer depends on the material or article, its function, whether it is single-use or repeat-use, applicable derogations and when it was first placed on the market. [19]

Impact. The 20 July deadline is now past. Food manufacturers, canners, closure suppliers, coatings manufacturers and equipment suppliers should verify that purchase specifications and declarations of compliance distinguish BPA from other bisphenols and identify any relied-upon transitional derogation. Businesses carrying legacy inventory should document the exact legal basis for continued placement, filling or sale rather than relying on a generic “produced before the ban” justification. [18]

Official source URLs:
Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/250 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2026/250/oj/eng)
EUR-Lex (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/)

Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/351 revising the plastic food-contact framework

Source: European Commission / Official Journal
Regulation date: 21 February 2025
Key transitional deadline: 16 September 2026

This measure substantially updates the EU plastic-food-contact framework and reaches its critical transition point on 16 September 2026. The amendments address the manufacture and quality control of plastic food-contact materials, including requirements affecting purity, substances present in plastics, reprocessing, recycled plastics, declarations and documentation, and GMP. Relevant final plastic food-contact materials and articles compliant with the pre-amendment rules benefit from a transition allowing first placement on the market until 16 September 2026; qualifying articles already placed may subsequently remain available until stocks are exhausted. [20]

Impact. With less than one month remaining from the newsletter's 23 August cut-off, this is an immediate supplier-documentation project. Companies should identify plastic FCM specifications still relying on the pre-2025 version of Regulation 10/2011, obtain updated declarations of compliance and supporting documentation, and make sure that “old-regime” articles intended to use the transition are correctly segregated and traceable. Recycled-plastic suppliers should be reviewed at the same time because Regulation 2025/351 also interacts with Regulation 2022/1616. [21]

Official source URL:
Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/351 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/351/oj/eng)

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1425 on recycled plastic content in beverage bottles

Source: European Commission / Official Journal
Publication date: 3 July 2026
Corrigendum: 20 July 2026

The Commission established the harmonised methodology for calculating, verifying and reporting recycled-plastic content in single-use plastic beverage bottles. The Decision specifies how the relevant recycled-plastic quantities are to be determined and reported and requires Member States to obtain underlying information from economic operators placing bottles on the market. It therefore provides the evidentiary machinery behind the Single-Use Plastics Directive's recycled-content requirements rather than establishing the headline recycled-content target itself. [22]

A 20 July 2026 corrigendum replaced annex material associated with the Decision. Companies and competent authorities implementing the methodology should therefore work from the corrected version rather than copies downloaded immediately after the original 3 July publication. [23]

Impact. Beverage companies, bottle manufacturers, converters and recycled-resin suppliers need auditable mass and recycled-content data that can withstand national reporting verification. The practical compliance challenge will increasingly move upstream to evidence of recycled feedstock, production yields, chain-of-custody information and consistent mass calculations across suppliers. Procurement contracts should allocate responsibility for providing those records rather than relying only on a percentage recycled-content claim on a specification sheet. [24]

Official source URLs:
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1425 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2026/1425/oj/eng)
Corrigendum (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2026/1425/corrigendum/2026-07-17/oj/eng)

United Kingdom

Extended producer responsibility for packaging: supplementary guidance for sampling and inspection plans 

Source: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs / Environment Agency 
Updated: 28 July 2026 
Defra and the Environment Agency updated the mandatory-template package and supplementary guidance used by packaging-waste reprocessors and exporters for sampling and inspection plans. Reprocessors and exporters that must register under packaging EPR have to explain how they determine packaging-waste quantities and fractions, perform sampling and inspection, and retain evidence demonstrating compliance. Exporters also have additional overseas-site information requirements. [25] 

Impact. Although this July update primarily targets waste operators rather than food brand owners, it matters to producers because PRN/PERN evidence ultimately feeds producer recycling compliance. Packaging companies purchasing compliance evidence should strengthen due diligence on compliance schemes, reprocessors and exporters and make sure contractual controls address invalid or inadequately supported PRNs/PERNs. [26] 

Official source URLs: 
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/extended-producer-responsibility-for-packaging-templates-for-sampling-and-inspection-plans 
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/extended-producer-responsibility-for-packaging-templates-for-sampling-and-inspection-plans/extended-producer-responsibility-for-packaging-supplementary-guidance-for-sampling-and-inspection-plans 

Record and report packaging waste: reprocessors and exporters and Summary logs for UK packaging waste: an overview 

Source: Defra 
Updated: 29 July 2026
The 29 July updates added operational instructions on amending/resubmitting packaging-waste reports and making changes to the summary logs used by reprocessors and exporters. Summary logs are not merely informal worksheets: they form part of the registered/accredited operator's evidentiary system and, for accredited materials, feed the waste balance used for PRN/PERN issuance. [27] 

Impact. These updates show the UK packaging-EPR system moving into a more mature verification phase. Operators should preserve version-controlled records linking incoming waste, processing/export records, corrections and PRN/PERN issuance. Producers and compliance schemes should expect increasing regulator scrutiny of the provenance and integrity of recycling evidence. [28] 

Official source URLs: 
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/record-and-report-packaging-waste-reprocessors-and-exporters 
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/summary-logs-for-uk-packaging-waste-an-overview 

Regulated products application guidance

Source: Food Standards Agency 
Updated: 20 July 2026
The FSA updated its regulated-products application guidance, a procedural framework relevant among other things to regulated food-contact recycling processes. The July version also prominently flags the prospective UK-EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary agreement and explains that dynamic alignment could result in businesses in Great Britain having to follow EU requirements in covered areas, subject to the eventual negotiated agreement and exceptions. [29] 

This is not itself a new food-contact compositional standard. It is better understood as an authorisation/procedural update and a warning that the future UK regime may become more closely tied to evolving EU food rules. [29] 

Impact. Businesses developing recycled-plastic food-contact processes in Great Britain should avoid assuming that long-term UK technical requirements will necessarily diverge from the EU. For investment decisions involving recycling technology or novel FCM processes, regulatory scenarios should include potential dynamic alignment. [29] 

Official source URL: 

https://www.food.gov.uk/business-guidance/regulated-products-application-guidance 

The FSA also updated its general packaging guidance page on 21 July 2026, but the indexed change was editorial/title clarification rather than a substantive technical food-contact requirement; it is therefore not treated as a separate regulatory change in this newsletter. [30] 

Brazil 

Extended producer responsibility for packaging: supplementary guidance for sampling and inspection plans 

Source: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs / Environment Agency 
Updated: 28 July 2026 
No relevant updates found meeting the strict newsletter criteria after scanning the available indexed ANVISA, federal environment and related official material for July 2026 and future post-1-July compliance milestones. 

There are nevertheless important longer-term food-contact files on the Brazilian regulatory horizon. ANVISA's 2026–2027 regulatory planning has identified work concerning the review of rules for food-grade post-consumer recycled PET (PET-PCR) intended for food contact, and BPA in food-contact materials has also appeared in regulatory-planning material. Those agenda topics are not reported as July developments here because the official items located did not satisfy the defined publication/amendment or future-compliance filter. [31] 

Strategic watch. For companies operating in Brazil, PET-PCR regulation deserves continuous monitoring because any ANVISA revision could affect resin authorisation, process validation, contaminant control, declarations/specifications and the commercial availability of recycled-content solutions for food packaging. 

Mexico

Iniciativa en materia de economía circular y tratamiento de residuos

Source: Cámara de Diputados, Gaceta Parlamentaria 
Publication date: 13 July 2026 
Status: Parliamentary initiative; not final law.
The Chamber of Deputies' Parliamentary Gazette recorded an initiative concerning circular economy and waste treatment on 13 July 2026. The proposal was referred to the relevant constitutional committee and is broader than food packaging: it concerns the constitutional/policy basis for circular-economy and waste governance rather than prescribing an immediate packaging composition, labelling or food-contact requirement. [32] 

Impact. There is no immediate company compliance obligation from the initiative. Its significance is strategic: constitutional or framework-level circular-economy reform can become the legislative foundation for subsequent producer-responsibility, packaging-reduction, recycling or materials requirements. Food and packaging companies operating in Mexico should therefore monitor whether the initiative advances and whether implementing legislation later targets packaging producers/importers. [32] 

Official source: 
https://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/ 

No July 2026 COFEPRIS/SENASICA/DOF food-contact-material rule meeting the defined window was verified in the official-source scan. 

China 

No relevant updates found that could be verified as an official Chinese food-contact or packaging/circular-economy measure both meeting the requested date window and carrying a sufficiently clear publication/consultation date. 

The SAMR national-standards system does show active technical-standard work on food packaging, including projects for food-packaging paper/plastic laminates, flour paper bags and active/intelligent packaging. Because the results located were draft-document files whose July publication/consultation status could not be conclusively established from the indexed official record, they have not been presented as July regulatory developments. [33] 

This distinction is important: a standard-development draft is not equivalent to an adopted GB standard or a formally dated public consultation. Companies should therefore avoid updating Chinese compliance specifications solely on the basis of those draft files. 

Official standards portal: 
https://std.samr.gov.cn/ 
https://openstd.samr.gov.cn/ 

Taiwan

塑膠襯墊、泡殼責任業者自116年7月1日起須標示塑膠材質辨識碼 

Source: Ministry of Environment, Resource Circulation Administration 
Publication: Official notice/news material published in 2025 
Effective date: 1 July 2027 
Taiwan will require specified responsible enterprises handling plastic liners and blister-type flat packaging to apply plastic-material identification markings from 1 July 2027. Existing registered responsible enterprises subject to the measure must complete marking by 30 September 2027; newly registered enterprises are subject to a subsequent three-month timing mechanism. The government explicitly links the measure to better sorting, material simplification and recycling of flat plastic packaging. [34] 

The measure contains exemptions for certain plastic packaging used for pharmaceuticals, health foods and medical devices where modifying packaging materials or structures can create additional regulatory and product-stability issues. [35] 

Impact. Companies placing affected packaged goods on the Taiwan market should add the requirement to 2027 packaging-artwork and mould/tooling calendars now. The key first step is not redesign but scope classification: determine which liners, blisters or other flat plastic packaging are regulated, who is the legally responsible enterprise, the relevant resin code and whether a product-specific exemption applies. Importers should allocate marking responsibility contractually with overseas suppliers. [34] 

Official source URLs: 
https://prcp.moenv.gov.tw/Public/views/news_detailed.aspx?id=764b639e-25c3-4d08-b782-b5b1ecf4fc20 
https://recycle1.moenv.gov.tw/sys/Business/ebook/PPMpackaging.aspx 

India

No relevant updates found meeting the strict July 2026/post-1-July compliance filter for FSSAI food-contact packaging or MoEFCC/CPCB plastic-packaging rules. 

India nevertheless remains a high-enforcement jurisdiction for packaging EPR. The existing Plastic Waste Management framework imposes mandatory EPR, recycling, reuse and recycled-content obligations on producers, importers and brand owners, and official government reporting confirms that CPCB has issued show-cause notices to registered entities for failure to fulfil EPR targets and/or submit required annual returns. Those enforcement actions identified in the official material occurred before the newsletter window and are therefore not counted as July developments. [37] 

Impact. The absence of a new July rule should not be interpreted as reduced compliance risk. For food companies and imported brands, India remains a jurisdiction where plastic-packaging EPR registration, portal data, certificates and annual returns warrant active compliance controls. [38] 

Official background URLs: 

https://cpcb.nic.in/rules-4/ 

https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2244106&lang=1&reg=1 

Australia

Address to the ARC Sustainability Lunch 2026 

Source: Australian Government, Minister for the Environment 
Publication date: 29 July 2026 
Status: Official policy statement; no final packaging rule.
The Minister confirmed that the Commonwealth is continuing work with state and territory governments on packaging-regulation reform, with the stated objective of improving recycling outcomes and strengthening domestic markets for recovered materials. The government identified the need for coordinated action across the packaging value chain and acknowledged that regulatory reform remains in development. [39] 

No new mandatory packaging-design, recycled-content or food-contact requirement was announced in the 29 July statement. The Australian Packaging Covenant remains part of the existing product-stewardship architecture while governments work on broader packaging reform. [40] 

Impact. This is a policy watch rather than a compliance deadline, but companies should not assume the existing largely covenant/co-regulatory model is static. Food and beverage companies selling nationally should model the operational benefit of one harmonised packaging-data and design framework because future federal/state reform is explicitly aimed at greater consistency and improved recycling outcomes. [39] 

Official source URLs: 
https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/watt/speeches/address-arc-sustainability-lunch-2026
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/protection/waste/packaging/packaging-covenant 

Transition of waste-export oversight to the National Environmental Protection Agency 

Source: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 
Relevant date: 1 July 2026
Australia's National Environmental Protection Agency was established on 1 July 2026, with federal material on waste exports indicating a transition of relevant regulatory content and functions. Australia's Recycling and Waste Reduction framework continues to regulate export of specified waste streams, including plastic, paper and glass, and exporters must comply with the applicable waste-export rules and licensing conditions. [41] 

Impact. This is principally an institutional/enforcement change rather than a new food-packaging design rule. Businesses exporting recovered plastic packaging or using export channels as part of Australian recycling arrangements should confirm the competent regulator, current licence conditions and documentary procedures rather than relying on legacy agency contacts. [41] 

Official source URLs: 
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/protection/waste/exports 
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/protection/waste/exports/specifications-and-documents/plastic-specifications 

Russia / Eurasian Economic Union 

No relevant updates found meeting the defined July 2026 or post-1-July-2026 compliance window for the EAEU packaging safety technical regulation or a separate Russian food-contact-packaging measure. 

The core supranational instrument remains Технический регламент Таможенного союза «О безопасности упаковки» (ТР ТС 005/2011) (Customs Union Technical Regulation “On Packaging Safety” (TR CU 005/2011)); the EEC's official consolidated page shows its latest listed substantive amendment as having entered into force on 5 March 2025, rather than during the 2026 newsletter window. [42] 

Accordingly, no July 2026 EEC amendment to TR CU 005/2011 was identified that would justify presenting a new packaging compliance obligation in this edition. The underlying EAEU technical-regulation and conformity-assessment requirements remain applicable. [43] 

Official source URLs: 
https://eec.eaeunion.org/comission/department/deptexreg/tr/bezopypakovki.php 
https://www.rst.gov.ru/portal/gost/home/standarts/technicalregulationses 

Executive bottom line: the immediate compliance workload should be concentrated on the EU BPA cut-over, PPWR/PFAS food-contact restriction and 16 September plastic-FCM transition, followed by structured preparation for US PFAS reporting, Canada's continuing plastics-registry reporting, UK EPR evidence controls and Taiwan's 2027 packaging-material marking requirement. [44] 

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Sources

Official documents and announcements from the cited agencies (FDA, House E&C, DG Environment, FSSAI, etc.). All source URLs are provided in the references below. Each item title is given in its original language (with translation) and key new obligations are highlighted in bold in the summaries. 

[1] [3] [18] [19] [44] Consolidated TEXT: 32024R3190 — EN — 23.02.2026 - EUR-Lex

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A02024R3190-20260223&utm_source=chatgpt.com

[2] [4] [6] Modification to the Start of the Submission Period for Perfluoroalkyl ...

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/13/2026-07062/modification-to-the-start-of-the-submission-period-for-perfluoroalkyl-and-polyfluoroalkyl-substances?utm_source=chatgpt.com

[5] EPA Proposes Changes to Make PFAS Reporting Requirements ...

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-proposes-changes-make-pfas-reporting-requirements-more-practical-and-0?utm_source=chatgpt.com

[7] [8] Federal Plastics Registry - Canada.ca

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/managing-reducing-waste/reduce-plastic-waste/federal-plastics-registry.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com

[9] Health Canada's Forward Regulatory Plan: 2026-2028

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/corporate/about-health-canada/legislation-guidelines/acts-regulations/forward-regulatory-plan/plan.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com

[10] Forward Regulatory Plan 2024 to 2026, Environment and Climate ...

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/corporate/transparency/acts-regulations/forward-regulatory-plan/2024-2026/chemicals-management.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com

[11] Recycled content and labelling rules for plastics - Canada.ca

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/canadian-environmental-protection-act-registry/recycled-content-labelling-rules-plastics.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com

[12] [16] Packaging and packaging waste (from 2026) - EUR-Lex - Europa.eu

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/packaging-and-packaging-waste-from-2026.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com

[13] [15] L_202500040EN.000101.fmx.xml - EUR-Lex

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A32025R0040&utm_source=chatgpt.com

[14] [PDF] EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 5.6.2026 C(2026) 3702 final ...

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=PI_COM%3AC%282026%293702&utm_source=chatgpt.com

[17] C(2026)3702 - EN - EUR-Lex - Europa.eu

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=intcom%3AC%282026%293702&utm_source=chatgpt.com

[20] [21] [PDF] Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/351 of 21 February ... - EUR-Lex

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ%3AL_202500351&utm_source=chatgpt.com

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[33] 食品包装用纸与塑料复合膜、袋

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