NB: Unofficial translation; legally binding texts are those in Finnish and Swedish Ministry of the Environment, Finland No. 962 GOVERNMENT DECISION ON PACKAGING AND PACKAGING WASTE October 23, 1997 Section 1 Purpose The purpose of this Decision is to reduce the environmental harm caused by packaging and packaging waste, and to prevent barriers to trade and distortion and restriction of competition. The primary aim is to prevent the generation of packaging waste; the other aims are to reuse packaging, and to recycle and oth-erwise recover packaging wastes in order to reduce their final disposal. Section 2 Scope of application This Decision applies to packaging placed on the Finnish market and consumed here, and to the packaging waste it generates, in addition to what is provided elsewhere concerning it. Neither the obligations concerning recovery of packaging waste and the relevant cost responsibility referred to in section 5 of this Decision nor the obligations referred to in sections...