
Article 1 
Annex I to Directive 94/62/EC is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2 

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 30 September 2013 at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
Article 3 
This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 4 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 7 February 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX


ANNEX I 

 Sweet boxes
 Film overwrap around a CD case
 Mailing pouches for catalogues and magazines (with a magazine inside)
 Cake doilies sold with a cake
 Rolls, tubes and cylinders around which flexible material (e.g. plastic film, aluminium, paper) is wound, except rolls, tubes and cylinders intended as parts of production machinery and not used to present a product as a sales unit
 Flower pots intended to be used only for the selling and transporting of plants and not intended to stay with the plant throughout its life time
 Glass bottles for injection solutions
 CD spindles (sold with CDs, not intended to be used as storage)
 Clothes hangers (sold with a clothing item)
 Matchboxes
 Sterile barrier systems (pouches, trays and materials necessary to preserve the sterility of the product)
 Beverage system capsules (e.g. coffee, cacao, milk) which are left empty after use
 Refillable steel cylinders used for various kinds of gas, excluding fire extinguishers


 Flower pots intended to stay with the plant throughout its life time
 Tool boxes
 Tea bags
 Wax layers around cheese
 Sausage skins
 Clothes hangers (sold separately)
 Beverage system coffee capsules, coffee foil pouches, and filter paper coffee pods disposed together with the used coffee product
 Cartridges for printers
 CD, DVD and video cases (sold together with a CD, DVD or video inside)
 CD spindles (sold empty, intended to be used as storage)
 Soluble bags for detergents
 Grave side lights (containers for candles)
 Mechanical quern (integrated in a refillable recipient, e.g. refillable pepper mill)


 Paper or plastic carrier bags
 Disposable plates and cups
 Cling film
 Sandwich bags
 Aluminium foil
 Plastic foil for cleaned clothes in laundries


 Stirrer
 Disposable cutlery
 Wrapping paper (sold separately)
 Paper baking cases (sold empty)
 Cake doilies sold without a cake

Labels hung directly on or attached to a product
 Part of packaging 
 Mascara brush which forms part of the container closure
 Sticky labels attached to another packaging item
 Staples
 Plastic sleeves
 Device for measuring dosage which forms part of the container closure for detergents
 Mechanical quern (integrated in a non-refillable recipient, filled with a product, e.g. pepper mill filled with pepper)

Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags

