Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/162 of 4 February 2022 laying down rules for the application of Directive (EU) 2019/904 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the calculation, verification and reporting on the reduction in the consumption of certain single-use plastic products and the measures taken by Member States to achieve such reduction (Text with EEA relevance)

1 Member States shall calculate the reduction in the consumption of single-use plastic products based on either of the following parameters: (a) the total weight of plastic in the single-use plastic products placed on the market in a Member State in a calendar year; (b) the number of single-use plastic products placed on the market in a Member State in a calendar year.

2 Member States shall calculate the reduction in the consumption of single-use plastic products placed on the market in a Member State in a calendar year in accordance with the formulas set out in Annex I.

3 Where there are significant exports or imports or other movements within the Union of single-use plastic products before they are made available to the final consumer or user, Member States may adjust the weight or number of single-use plastic products placed on the market, as referred to in paragraph 1, in order to take account of such movements.

1 Member States shall report the data on single-use plastic products placed on the market referred to in Article 13(1), point (a), of Directive (EU) 2019/904, as calculated in accordance with Article 1 of this Decision, in the format laid down in Annex II to this Decision.

2 Member States shall report the information on consumption reduction measures referred to in Article 13(1), point (b), of Directive (EU) 2019/904 in the format laid down in Annex III to this Decision.

3 Member States shall submit the quality check report as regards the data and information referred to in this Article in the format laid down in Annex IV.

4 The Commission shall publish the data reported by the Member States unless, as regards information included in the quality check report, the Member State provides a justified request to withhold the publication of certain data.

5 Member States shall, to the extent possible, use electronic registries to collect and report data to the Commission.

This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.