G/TBT/N/FRA/212  
17 June 2021 
(21-4950) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  French  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : FRANCE  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Direction générale de la prévention des risques  (Directorate -General for Risk 
Prevention)  
Bureau de la prévention des déchets et des filières à responsabilité élargie des 
producteurs (Office for Waste Prevention and Sectors of Extended Producer 
Responsibility)(MTES/ DGPR/SRSE/SDDEC/BPREP)  
Tour Sequoia, 92055 La Défense Cedex  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated  if different from above:  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : Sale of 
fruit and vegetables in shops, on stalls and at markets  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Décret relatif à 
l'obligation de présentation à la vente des fruits et légumes frais non-transformés sans 
conditionnement composé pour tout ou partie de matière plastique  (Decree concernin g 
the mandatory display for sale of unprocessed fresh fruit and vegetables without 
packaging made entirely or partly of plastic) (4 pages, in French)  
6. Description of content : The Law of 1 0 February 2 020 relating to the fight against waste 
and the circular economy establishes that retail stores displaying unprocessed fresh fruit 
and vegetables for sale will be required, as from 1 January 2 022, to display such products 
for sale w ithout plastic packaging (Article 77 of the Law) . The notified Law also specifies 
that this obligation does not apply to fruit and vegetables packed in batches exceeding 
1.5kg, or fruit and vegetables presenting a risk of deterioration when sold loose, the  list 
of which is established by decree.  
The draft Law defines certain terms in the Law, and sets forth a list of exempt fruit and 
vegetables for which a risk of deterioration when sold loose has been identified.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The regulatory provisions specify the conditions for the application of 
provisions introduced by the Law of 1 0 February 2 020 relating to the fight against waste 
and the circular economy . The provisions regulate t he display for sale of unprocessed 
fresh fruit and vegetables for the final consumer . They apply only to the display for sale 
of these products and not to the stages preceding the display for sale, that is, production, 
packing and transportation . Retail st ores will be required to offer unprocessed fruit and 
vegetables without plastic packaging on their shelves, with the exception of those that G/TBT/N/FRA/212  
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  are likely to deteriorate when sold loose, and those packed in batches exceeding 1.5kg ; 
Environmental protection  
8. Relevant documents:  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 1 July 2 021 
Proposed date of entry into force : 1 July 2 021 
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from the date of notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Direction générale des entreprises (Directorate -General of Enterprises)  
Sous-direction de la qualité pour l'industrie et de la normalisation , SQUALPI (Vice -
Directorate, Quality for Industry and Standardization)  
Bât. Sieyès -Teledoc 151  
61, Bd Vincent Auriol  
75703 PARIS Cedex 13  
d9834.france@finances.gouv.fr  
https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -
databases/tris/fr/search/?trisaction=search.detail&year=2021&num=149  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/TBT/FRA/21_4173_00_f.pdf