The Single Market and the Environment: the European Union's Dilemma: The Example of the Packaging Directive - European Energy and Environmental Law Review View The Single Market and the Environment: the European Union's Dilemma: The Example of the Packaging Directive by - European Energy and Environmental Law Review The Single Market and the Environment: the European Union's Dilemma: The Example of the Packaging Directive 6 7

The quest fir balance between the single market and enhanced environmental protection in the context of the Packaging Directive; key elements of the Directive; difficulties in implementation; the requirement to notify draft legislation to the Commission and the large number of detailed opinions submitted; progress in implementation; problems - mandatory preferences for reusable packaging, higher recycling and recovery targets than those set by the Directive, ecotaxes; the example of mandatory reuse quotas in Germany; likelihood that the validity of general preferences for reusable packaging will be examined by the European Court of Justice.

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