reuse

as defined in European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on…, Article 3, point (5)

any operation by which packaging, which has been conceived and designed to accomplish within its life cycle a minimum number of trips or rotations, is refilled or used for the same purpose for which it was conceived, with or without the support of auxiliary products present on the market enabling the packaging to be refilled; such reused packaging will become packaging waste when no longer subject to reuse;

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Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 establishing a framework for… 32024R1781, Article 2
in Article 3, points (1), (2), (13), (15), (16) and (17), respectively, of Directive 2008/98/EC apply.
Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing a framework for the… 32009L0125, Article 2, point (14)
any operation by which a product or its components, having reached the end of their first use, are used for the same purpose for which they were conceived, including the continued use of a product which is returned to a collection point, distributor, recycler or manufacturer, as well as reuse of a…