European Plastics Converters (EuPC) has urged countries from the European Union to disapprove of a 2021-2027 budget plan proposed by the EU Commission that determines national contributions based on unrecycled plastic packaging.
According to the proposal, EU member states could pay the contribution to the common budget. However, it does not specify how and where to collect the due amount.
EuPC said the proposal was arranged without consulting with the industry stakeholders. It also noted that the proposal would lead to the opposite economic and environmental results. It also said that the plan would potentially disrupt Europe’s single market and impact negatively on the individual plastic business.
Alexandre Dangis, EuPC managing director, said that countries would focus on taxing production and consumption of plastic packaging without paying attention to the underlying issues. Dangis noted that the plastic industry alone could not fill the 7 billion euros ($7.7 billion) financial gap when the UK leaves the union. He said that the EU policymakers failed to use the available measures efficiently to cope with the problem.
