Commentaries: Art. 7

Dealers, manufacturers and importers who supply beverages in non-refillable PET or metal containers to consumers and who do not ensure the disposal of all containers they supply through financial contributions to a private organisation, must:
1. take back such non-refillable containers at all points of sale during all opening hours;
2. pass such non-refillable containers on for recycling at their own expense; and
3. indicate clearly in easily visible places at the points of sale that they accept the return of these types of non-refillable containers.
These provisions are subject to the reservation of the special measures taken by the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) in terms of Article 8.