In the context of primary and secondary legislation regulating the area of waste and of EBA support in assisting the private sector in regard to its implementation, a meeting facilitated by EBA and AmCham took place on 19th of September 2017, aiming at gathering the packaging producing and importing companies in Moldova, with the view of setting up the Packaging Producers and Importers Association.
The session began with a presentation made by EBA on the main legal provisions contained in the Law 209/2016 on wastes and the draft Packaging Waste Regulation, regulating the organization and operation of the producer responsibility organization, a collective system which will take over the obligations relating to packaging waste management generated on the territory of RM by the member companies, followed by discussions and concluded with an identified list of companies which expressed a real interest in becoming the founding members of the future association.