Each Member State sets the amounts of its penalties, and France is still preparing its own. The Regulation already provides tools with immediate effects: the market surveillance authority may order withdrawal of a non-compliant batch or catalogue item, stopping sales in all 27 countries. EPR fee modulation also penalises non-recyclable packaging, with penalties already reaching up to +100% at CITEO. Finally, outside the PPWR, public procurement law allows candidates to be excluded from a contract for documented environmental breaches.
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