European Paper Packaging Alliance

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

None declared

None declared

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1.5 Fte (6)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

13

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    European Paper Packaging Alliance   (EPPA)

    EU Transparency Register

    871659237699-78 First registered on 25 Mar 2020

    Goals / Remit

    The European Paper Packaging Alliance is a not-for-profit food and foodservice packaging association. Our priorities are to find concrete solutions to increase recycling and to reduce carbon emissions of food and foodservice packaging without compromising food safety and human health protection. EPPA is committed to working with European policymakers to support these common priorities. The Alliance supports evidence-based policy making.

    Main EU files targeted

    EU Green Deal and Single Use Plastics Directive and the EU Waste Regulation are being followed.

    Address

    Head Office
    Laan van Nieuw Oost Indië 131 G
    2593 BM DEN HAAG
    Den Haag 2508 CH
    NETHERLANDS
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    6

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%6

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 02 Mar 2021

    Name Start date End Date
    Matti Rantanen 22 Feb 2024 21 Feb 2025
    Alice PETRUCCI 12 Oct 2023 11 Oct 2024
    Mr Matti Rantanen 22 Feb 2024 15 Apr 2024
    Ms Alice PETRUCCI 12 Oct 2023 15 Apr 2024
    Mr Matti Rantanen 21 Dec 2022 21 Dec 2023

    Complementary Information

    EPPA has an Executive Committee and members. EPPA is establishing internal working groups. For this moment about 6 persons are activley involved in EPPA, annex to other duties/jobs.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations

    Subcategory

    Trade and business associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    None declared

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    None declared

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    PUBLICATION:
    Ramboll’s new European Study: Single-use paper-based packaging in quick service restaurants is better for the environment than reusable tableware

    Study challenges common perception that reusable tableware has lower environmental impacts. It does not!

    A study released by the European Paper Packaging Association (EPPA) reveals that single-use paper-based food and drink packaging used in European quick service restaurants is better for the environment than reusable tableware.

    The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been carried by Ramboll, the independent Danish consultants to the European Commission, and certified by TUV.

    The study used current primary data from the paper, packaging and foodservice industries to compare the environmental performance over a year of typical disposable and reusable food and drink containers used in a quick-service restaurant for in-store consumption.

    The Ramboll Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) found that, assuming realistic usage over a year, the energy consumption involved in the use phase of reusable plastic and traditional crockery, during in-store or out-sourced washing and drying, outweighed the environmental impact of single-use paper dishes. The baseline report reveals that reusable tableware generated 177% more CO2-e emissions than the paper-based single-use system, consumed 267% more freshwater, produced 132% more fine particulates matter, increased fossil depletion by 238% and terrestrial acidification by 72%.

    PUBLICATION:
    Report from Professor David McDowell, Emeritus Professor of Food Studies at the Ulster University completed and available.

    The European Paper Packaging Alliance’s (EPPA) members innovate and invest to offer sustainable, circular, renewable and recyclable packaging solutions for Europe’s modern food economy. EPPA fully support the EU’s aim to reduce plastics and fossil-based resources, achieve climate-neutrality and sustain healthy ecosystems. EPPA also supports the use of the Waste Hierarchy to achieve the best environmental outcomes, using holistic life cycle thinking.

    In 2020 EPPA asked Professor David McDowell, Emeritus Professor of Food Studies at the Ulster University, to conduct a review of the food hygiene challenges of replacing single use food service ware with reusable food service items. The report has now been completed and is available.

    It found that the transfer of foodborne disease remains a clear and present hazard to consumers and that “there are greater risks of cross contamination within “circular” reuse systems, than in the current “linear” single use systems.”

    The report indeed reviewed the risks of increased foodborne disease associated with any move to the wider use of reusable food service ware and systems in the absence of improved understanding and hygienic practices. Because reuse systems are inherently more complex than single use systems due to multi-location cleaning, sanitation, storage and transport, they lead to greater risks of cross contamination.

    Professor McDowell noted that banning or reducing the use of food service disposables, in the absence of radical significant and unprecedented changes in good hygiene practice, will lead to greater persistence and circulation of foodborne pathogens within the human food chain, and increased risks of human foodborne illness in our community.

    Other activities

    EPPA has been established in 2020 and is in a further developing phase.

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    13 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

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