Three dates that don't move
PPWR is Regulation (EU) 2025/40. It's directly applicable across all 27 Member States — no national transposition, no carve-outs, no grace period. The dates below are written into the regulation itself.
PPWR replaced Directive 94/62/EC. The law has been on the books for 15 months. The transition window closes August.
Core obligations apply. Design, sustainability, labelling, documentation, market surveillance. Hard deadline. No grace period.
Binding reuse targets. 100% of intra-EU B2B transport packaging must run in a reuse system. Beverage 10%. Transport 40%. Structural mandate, not aspiration.
|Procimo TechFour obligations, three months out
PPWR's enforcement model rests on four pressures. Each one is a deadline-driven test. The system most operators have today fails each of them.
Market Surveillance Authorities can demand evidence of conformity from any operator, electronically, with a 10-day response window. From 12 August 2026.
Non-compliant packaging cannot be placed on the EU market. Already-shelved stock can be ordered withdrawn or recalled. "No compliance, no market."
100% of intra-EU B2B transport packaging must run in a reuse system. 40% of all transport packaging. 10% of beverage. From 1 January 2030.
PPWR mandates effective, proportionate, and dissuasive penalties. Each Member State sets its own scale. Fines, sales bans, withdrawals, recalls.
|Procimo TechMost of your industry isn't ready
PPWR is a data and documentation challenge before it's a sustainability challenge. The trade press, law firms, and consultancies all say the same thing: the buyers we talk to don't have the operational data PPWR demands. The numbers below are public.
Source: Greenberg Traurig PPWR readiness review, 2025
Source: Pacoon PPWR digital-readiness survey, DACH region
Source: FMCG manufacturer survey (n=220), 2025
|Procimo TechFour questions a barcode scan can't answer
When the authority asks about your pool, four questions land on the desk. The wash-line scans, the WMS, the customer billing system — none of them produce per-crate cycle data.
The authority will ask for the cycle history of specific crates. Each fill, each pick, each return. Scan-events at the dock confirm a crate moved. They don't tell the story PPWR asks for.
Pool operators must report reuse rates per pool, audit-grade, to Member State authorities. Estimates derived from billing flows won't pass.
Late-returning packers cost the pool more than early-returning ones, and pay the same. Without dwell data, the pool subsidises its own dilution.
|Procimo TechThe data layer PPWR was written for
Procimo RTLS produces the per-crate, per-cycle, per-partner data PPWR demands. Hardware-independent, food-grade compatible, multi-partner ready. Per pool, per cycle, per DC.
Every crate. RFID at the wash line, BLE in the DC, GPS on the truck, edge reads at packer / grower receipt. Whatever the route demands.
Round-trip per crate, dwell per packer, dormancy per DC, partner-level cycle counts. Pool-health KPIs in real time.
Reuse rate per pool, placed-on-market per SKU, return rate per partner. Generated from the data, audit-grade.
Per-crate history. Each fill, each pick, each return. PPWR-ready and DPP-compatible.
|Procimo TechYou're not losing crates. You're renting them.
The financial impact takes three numbers from your operation. Pool size, stock-loss rate, crate replacement cost. The structure runs in front of you, on your data.
Recovered with RTLS = the share of that loss tied to dormancy and missing returns, plus the pool reduction from cycle compression. The exact recovery rate depends on your operation.
Pool × loss × cost = the cheque the operation writes every year for crates that didn't come back. Bring those three numbers to the next meeting and we run it live.
|Procimo TechA scan at the dock isn't an audit trail
Most operators run wash-line and dock barcode scans plus a WMS. The scans confirm a crate left, not where it sits, or for how long. The 65% of FMCG manufacturers admitting their IT needs extensive adjustment know that already. RTLS is what fills the gap.
What real-time location adds that scans don't
- Per-crate cycle history — fill, dispatch, partner receipt, return
- Dwell visibility per packer and per grower, partner-level SLAs enforceable
- Pool reuse rate generated from the data, audit-grade
- Cross-pool detection — the contamination most barcode systems miss
- Hardware-independent: RFID, BLE, GPS — fits the wash line and the road
|Procimo TechPPWR-data-ready before the deadline
Pick one DC, instrument the wash line and one outbound lane, prove the math on your data, then scale across the network.
One DC, one packer / grower lane
Pick the lane with the highest exposure or worst dilution. Tag spec and KPI targets agreed up front.
Tags live, dashboard live
RTLS at the wash line and dock. Per-crate cycle data flowing in week 4. First partner-level dwell read by week 6.
WMS, billing, partner SLAs
Data into the systems the operation already uses. Partner dashboards live. Late-return rules wired in.
Pool reuse rate reportable
Reuse-rate export tested. Documentation formatted for Member State submission. Ready for 12 August 2026.
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