G/TBT/N/FRA/224  
14 April 2022 
(22-3056) 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:  
Ministères économiques et financiers  (economic and finance ministries ) 
DGE/SCIDE  
Bât. Sieyès -Teledoc 143  
61, Bd Vincent Auriol  
75703 PARIS Cedex 13  
d9834.france@finances.gouv.fr  
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:  
Ministère de la transition écologique  (Ministry for  Ecological Transition)  
Direction générale de la prévention des risque (Directorate -General for Risk Prevention)  
Bureau de la prévention des déchets et des filières à responsabilité élargie des 
producteurs , MTE/DGPR/BPREP (Office for Waste Prevention and S ectors of Extended 
Producer Responsibility)  
Tour Sequoia  
92055 La Défense Cedex  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], 
other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : Containers 
or receptacles intended for on -the-spot or on -the-move consumption made entirely  or 
partly of extruded polystyrene, expanded or extruded polypropylene  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Décret relatif à 
l'interdiction de certains récipients pour aliments en plastique à usage unique constitués 
de plastique expansé ou extrudé  (Decree banning certain single -use plastic food 
receptacles  made of expanded or extruded plastic) (2 page(s), in French)  
6. Description of content : The Law of 1 0 February 2 020 on combating waste and on the 
circular economy bans certain single -use plastic products, including containers or 
receptacles ma de of expanded polystyrene intended for on -the-spot or on -the-move 
consumption.  
The ban seeks to prevent the environmental impact of discarding such single -use plastic 
products.  
To prevent any circumvention of this ban, the Decree supplements it by referring to the 
same products when made entirely  or partly of extruded polystyrene, of expanded or 
extruded polypropylene.  G/TBT/N/FRA/224  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent p roblems where 
applicable : The ban on containers or receptacles made of expanded polystyrene intended 
for on -the-spot or on -the-move consumption provided for by the Law on combating waste 
and on the circular economy (AGEC) has led to the development of alte rnative plastic -
free solutions.  
However, solutions to circumvent the ban have emerged through  the use of production 
processes that differ but that result in similar products (expanded polystyrene - extruded 
polystyrene) or through the use of plastics other  than polystyrene, chiefly polypropylene . 
In all cases, these circumvention solutions  result in food receptacles intended for on -the-
spot or on -the-move consumption, all of which have the same environmental impact due 
to their manner of use.  
The notified draft Decree aims to limit the possibilities of circumventing the provisions of 
the AGEC Law by extending the ban on food receptacles  made of expanded polystyrene 
intended for on -the-spot or on -the-move consumption to those made of extruded 
polystyrene and to those made of expanded or extruded polypropylene ; Environmental 
protection  
8. Relevant documents:  
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9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force : July 2 022 
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:  
https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -
databases/tris/fr/search/?trisaction=search.detail&year=2022&num=167  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/FRA/22_2843_00_f.pdf