International project aims to take EU pack standards global

packagingnews.co.uk: "Global ISO standards on packaging and its environmental impact could be launched as soon as 2012 after a project to create them kicked off in Beijing last week.

The project aims to facilitate trade across borders by developing a framework for packaging suppliers and buyers to discuss packaging specifications, in particular with regard to the environment, on a level playing field internationally.

Stina Wallstrom of the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) is leading the project as co-secretary with Xu Ting of Cepi China.

She told Packaging News that the new ISO standards would be based on the European standards behind the EU's Packaging & Packaging Waste Directive and existing guidelines in Asia."