. . . FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, NATURE CONSERVATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY Ordinance on the Avoidance and Recovery of Packaging Waste (Packaging Ordinance – Verpackungsverordnung – VerpackV) in the version promulgated on 21 August 1998 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 2379, as last amended by the Ordinance of 15 May 2002, Federal Law Gazette I p. 1572) This updated version takes into account the following amendments: • The Fourth Ordinance on the Amendment to the Hazardous Substances Ordinance of 18 October 1999 (Federal Law Gazette I. p. 2059) - Specification of plant protectives and preparations of diphenylmethane-4,4’-diisocyanate (MDI) in Article 3 nos. 2 and 3 - • The First Ordinance on the Amendment to the Packaging Ordinance of 28 August 2000 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 1344) - Transposition of the Commission Decision of 8 February 1999 (1999/177/EC) establishing the conditions for a derogation for plastic crates and plastic pallets in relation to the heavy metal concentration...