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Article 12 - Supply through refill

Article 12
Supply through refill

Without prejudice to Regulations (EU) 2023/988 20 and (EU) 2025/40 21 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards safety and hygiene requirements for refill including the risk of confusion with foodstuff, where detergents or end-user surfactants are made available on the market through refill, the economic operator making the product available to end-users shall ensure that:

((a))

risk mitigation measures are applied to minimise the exposure of humans, especially of children, including by preventing children from using the refill station unsupervised and by training appropriately their staff; and

((b))

the detergents or end-user surfactants provided through a refill station do not react with each other in a way that could endanger human health.

  1. 21 Regulation (EU) 2025/40 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 December 2024 on packaging and packaging waste, amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and Directive (EU) 2019/904, and repealing Directive 94/62/EC ( OJ L, 2025/40, 22.1.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/40/oj ). ↩
  2. 20 Regulation (EU) 2023/988 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 on general product safety, amending Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive (EU) 2020/1828 of the European Parliament and the Council, and repealing Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 87/357/EEC ( OJ L 135, 23.5.2023, p. 1 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/988/oj ). ↩
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