On July 8, 2025, the European Commission published two legislative proposals – COM(2025) 526 and COM(2025) 531 – intended to postpone the application dates of certain new requirements introduced by the latest amendment to the CLP Regulation (EU) 2024/2865 and to simplify its provisions.
While these remain proposals for now, the intent is clearly to postpone implementation and lighten the regulatory burden on companies, reflecting increasing concern about the obligations industry is expected to meet.
Specifically, the Commission proposes to:
- postpone until January 1, 2028 the application dates of provisions concerning:
- label formatting, including fold-out labels
- timelines for label updates
- advertising and distance selling
- fuel pumps labelling
- grant a longer period for the disposal of existing stock
- make label formatting requirements more flexible
- introduce mandatory digital contact on labels
- simplify and clarify exemptions for labelling small-sized packaging
- simplify rules on advertising and distance selling
- expand the information permitted on digital labels
- reduce obligations for fuel distributors
- reinstate the flexible deadline of “without undue delay” for label updates
We will keep you informed of further developments and, in the meantime, we encourage you to read the proposals carefully.