Cyprus
As of 2024, Cyprus continues to regulate packaging and packaging waste through its transposition of the European Directive 94/62/EC into national law, specifically the Packaging and Packaging Waste Act (N. 32(I)/2002). The core elements of this law remain consistent, with a strong focus on the Producer Responsibility principle.
Companies placing packaging on the market in Cyprus must either join a Collective Packaging Management System, typically a not-for-profit system such as Green Dot Cyprus, or establish a Private System based on a Return or Deposit scheme. Green Dot covers both household and commercial industrial packaging. However, companies placing less than 2 tons of packaging on the market annually are only required to report their packaging data without needing to meet recovery or recycling obligations.
Cyprus has reinforced these obligations with amendments aligning with newer EU directives, continuing to ensure that producers meet strict recovery and recycling targets—such as recovering 60% of the packaging and recycling specific materials like paper, glass, and plastic at defined rates
Legal basis
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Packaging and Packaging Waste Laws, 2002, (N32(I)/2002).
- Responsibility of the Packaging Responsible organisations by 31/12/2012 to recover at least 65% of the packaging they place in the market, recycle at least 65% of the total and at least 70% of glass, 75% of paper, 50% of aluminium, 70% of iron, 50% of plastics and 25% of wood.
- The responsibility lies with the packagers, producers, suppliers, importers. The choices are between Private Systems based on a return or deposit scheme, or a Collective Compliance System representing many responsible producers.
- A Collective Packaging management system has to be not-for-profit.
- The Green Dot System covers both Household and Commercial Industrial Packaging.
Facts and figures
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Data 2024
| Population | 838,897 |
| No. of local authorities |
87,4% 733.376
29 Municipalities 88 Comunities
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| No. of companies in system | 1462 |
| Packaging introduced to the market |
102.984 tons total packaging on the market and 85.820 tons total packaging registered with Green Dot Cyprus |
| Recovered waste |
33.926 tons of household packaging and 40.826 tons of commercial industrial packaging
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| Types of packaging | Household and commercial industrial |
Packaging organisation/s in Cyprus:
