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Review report: 2026-10-14-issue-001

Decision publish · publish gate closed · quarantine ratio 17% (limit 30%)

Why the gate closed

• high-impact item(s) quarantined: eu-ppwr

Published items (10)

• 2026-10-14-003 eu-ppwr: A feedback period on a planned implementing act ran from 14 August 2026 to 16 September 2026.
• 2026-10-14-004 eu-wsr: The European Commission opened a feedback period from 18 September 2026 to 16 October 2026 on a delegated regulation establishing a list of non-OECD countries authorised to import certain non-hazardous waste from the EU. The new Waste Shipment Regulation bans the export of non-hazardous waste to non-OECD countries from 21 May 2027.
• 2026-10-14-005 eu-ppwr: The feedback period for the implementing rules on packaging and packaging waste opened on 6 August 2026 and closed on 10 September 2026.
• 2026-10-14-007 eu-wfd: A feedback period for the Early warning report on waste 2027 opened on 28 September 2026 and is open until 26 October 2026.
• 2026-10-14-008 eu-wsr: The feedback period for the initiative 'Green-listing certain waste for the purposes of shipments to recovery between Member States' closed on 15 September 2026.
• 2026-10-14-009 eu-ppwr: The feedback period for the planned implementing act on rules for the calculation and verification of recycled content in plastic packaging ran from 14 August 2026 to 16 September 2026.
• 2026-10-14-010 eu-ppwr: A Commission Implementing Decision on harmonised packaging and packaging waste labels under Regulation (EU) 2025/40 is planned as a Commission implementing decision (reference Ares(2026)8548456). The initiative status is active and the front-end stage is 'INIT_PLANNED'; receiving feedback is disabled, with a listed feedback start date of 14 September 2026.
• 2026-10-14-011 eu-ppwr: A public feedback period on the delegated act establishing sustainability criteria for plastic recycling technologies ran from 14 August 2026 to 16 September 2026; feedback is closed.
• 2026-10-14-012 eu-public-procurement: A public feedback period on the revision of EU rules on public procurement is open from 15 September 2026 to 9 December 2026.
• 2026-10-14-013 uk-plastic-packaging-tax: On 6 October 2026, draft Regulations and a draft reference document on chemical recycling and adoption of a mass balance approach for Plastic Packaging Tax were published for technical consultation. The draft Regulations set out the conditions that businesses must meet to use a mass balance approach to account for chemically recycled plastic from 1 April 2027, including certification, auditing, monitoring and record-keeping requirements.

Quarantined items (2) — not published

• Waste Framework Directive medium 2026-10-14-001
  On 9 October 2026 the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety published a report on a proposal for a directive suspending the application of rules on the appointment of authorised representatives for extended producer responsibility for waste, waste electrical and electronical equipment and single use plastic waste.
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  • L2 quote-provenance: not found in snapshot: 'published: fri, 09 oct 2026 11:32:25 gmt report on the proposal for a directive '
• PPWR high 2026-10-14-002
  On 9 October 2026, the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety published a report on a proposal for a regulation suspending the application of the rules on the appointment of an authorised representative for extended producer responsibility for batteries and waste batteries and packaging and packaging waste. The rapporteur is Ingeborg Ter Laak.
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Layer 4: editorial review

Passed: true

No blocking findings were identified. There is one style note for item 2026-10-14-004 to use 'the Commission' instead of 'the European Commission'. The high-impact PPWR dossier has a quarantined item (2026-10-14-002) that is not published in this issue, so readers should be aware that the European Parliament committee report on suspending authorised representative rules for packaging is absent.

Blocking (factual) findings

None.

Style and terminology notes

Reported to the editor only; these never hold an item back.

• 2026-10-14-004: write 'the Commission' instead of 'the European Commission'

High-impact dossiers with held or missing items

• eu-ppwr