Extended responsibility of manufacturers of tobacco products with filters

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In accordance with the provisions of the amended law of 21 March 2012 on waste and the law of 9 June 2022 on reducing the impact of certain plastic products on the environment, tobacco products with filters and filters marketed for use in combination with tobacco products (hereinafter referred to as 'tobacco products with filters') are subject to the extended producer responsibility scheme.

With a view to promoting prevention, reuse, reutilisation, recycling and any other form of recovery of waste, the producer of tobacco products with filters (the person who places tobacco products with filters on the market) is subject to the extended producer responsibility scheme.

As a result, the producer of products must fulfil a number of obligations.

Who is concerned

Producers of products

The producer of products is any natural or legal person:

  • established in Luxembourg and who, on a professional basis, manufactures, fills or sells products directly in Luxembourg, irrespective of the selling technique used, including through distance contracts, and places products on the Luxembourg market; or
  • who is the first party to receive, on a professional basis, products imported into Luxembourg by any natural or legal person, whether established in Luxembourg or not, irrespective of the selling technique used, including distance contracts, and places products on the Luxembourg market; or
  • established outside Luxembourg and who, on a professional basis, sells products in Luxembourg directly to households or to users other than households, irrespective of the selling technique used, including distance contracts.

Products concerned

All single-use filters for tobacco productsmade entirely or partly of plastic. The products concerned include:

  • filter-tipped cigarettes or cigars;
  • separate filters;
  • electronic devices (with a filter) used for heating tobacco.

Electronic cigarettes or vaping products are not single-use and do not contain tobacco. Consequently, such products are not subject to the extended producer responsibility scheme, even if they contain a plastic filter.

How to proceed

Extended producer responsibility

All producers of tobacco products with filters, subject to the extended producer responsibility, are required to:

  • cover the costs of cleaning up litter resulting from those products, as well as the transportation and subsequent treatment of such litter;
  • cover the costs for the collection, transportation and subsequent treatment of those products that have become waste and which are disposed of in public collection systems, including the infrastructure and operational costs;
  • cover the costs of awareness-raising measures concerning the inappropriate disposal of waste deriving from such products and its impact on the environment, the marine environment and the sewer system;
  • each year reduce by 10 % the amounts released of those products that have become waste.

Tobacco products with filters

Manufacturers of tobacco products with filters must contractually entrust to an approved organisation the performance of all the obligations incumbent upon them. For the time being, the non-profit organisation Valorlux ASBL is the only organisation authorised to endorse these obligations. Producers of tobacco products with filters must therefore become members of Valorlux ASBL.

For further information, please contact Valorlux ASBL by email at: message@valorlux.lu or by telephone on (+352) 37 00 06 1.

Who to contact

Valorlux ASBL

Address:
1, boulevard du Jazz L-4370 Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg
Phone:
(+352) 37 00 06 1
Email address:
message@valorlux.lu
Website:
http://www.valorlux.lu

Environment Agency Strategies and Concepts

Address:
1, avenue du Rock'n'Roll L-4361 Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg
Email address:
emballages@aev.etat.lu
Packaging
Email address:
deee@aev.etat.lu
WEEE
Email address:
batt@aev.etat.lu
Batteries and accumulators
Email address:
sup@aev.etat.lu
Tobacco products with filters
Website:
http://www.emwelt.lu

Related procedures and links

Procedures

Links

Further information

Déchets de produits du tabac avec filtres

sur emwelt.lu - le portail de l'environnement

Legal references

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