MK – NI 065

List of relevant policy documents:

Strategy for Waste Management of the Republic of Macedonia (2008 -2020)

National Waste Management Plan of the Republic of Macedonia (2009 – 2015)

Programme for packaging waste management

Legal grounds

• Law on Waste Management
• Law on the Management of Packaging and Packaging Waste
• List of illustrative examples of packaging
• Rulebook on the manner of numbering and abbreviations on which the system of identification is based and marking of the materials of which the packaging was made, as well as the format and the content of the label for packaging waste handling
• Rulebook on the format and the content of the form of the annual report on the type and the quantity of packaging released on the market or imported in the Republic of Macedonia during the preceding calendar year and such packaging wastehandling, the format and the content of the form for records keeping of the overall packaging released on the market or imported in the Republic of Macedonia, as well as the manner of records keeping
• Rulebook on the manner of keeping, the format and the detailed content of the database and informations system of packaging and packaging waste
• Rulebook on the conditions for durable packaging and types of packaging serving as parameters that the packaging is durable

EU and other international regulations:

Directive on packaging and packaging waste 94/62/EC and amendments 2004/12/EC

Under the principle of sustainable development of the Law on the Management of Packaging and Packaging Waste, the following general objectives should be achieved:

• to prevent generation of packaging waste,
• to reduce the quantity of packaging waste,
• to reduce and restrict the use of harmful metals and matters in packaging and thus reduce the toxicity of the packaging waste,
• to prevent or reduce negative impact of packaging wasteon environment and provide high level of environment protection,
• to provide conditions for establishment of system for return, selection, collection, reuse, recovery and recycling of packaging waste,
• to provide conditions for establishment and development of market of packaging wasterecovery and recycling, and
• to provide equal position between domestic and foreign legal and natural persons and avoide and eliminate trade barriers that may disrupt the market.

National targets for packaging waste handling require that the following quantities of packaging and packaging waste should be and recovered on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia within the following deadlines:

a) by the end of 2020, at least 60% of the weight of the packaging waste generated on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia should be recovered by recovery operations or energy recovery operations;

b) by the end of 2020, at least55% and 80% at maximum of the weight of the packaging waste generated on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia should be recycled;

c) by the end of 2020, the following quantities of materials of which the packaging is produced should be recycled:

– 60% glass,

– 60% paper and cardboard,

– 50% metals, and

– 15% wood; and

d) by the end of 2018, 22.5% plastics, taking into account only the recyclable materials in the plastic.

The exported quantities of packaging waste will be taken into account in the fulfillment of the obligations and achievement of the targets set under the law only if there is evidence that those have been recovered in a manner not harmful for the environment and equivalent with the manner defined in the regulations for environment protection and waste management in the Republic of Macedonia.