Confindustria, Confagricoltura, Confcommercio, Confartigianato, Confcooperative, Federdistribuzione, Casartigiani and CLAAI, have expressed to the Parliament the absolute necessity to put pressure on the European institutions for more common sense and balance in the introduction of the new rules, reiterating the alarm that arises from the application of the new rules.

There are many aspects of the measure assessed as critical that, if approved, risk damaging an entire system of excellence. More than 30% of the country's GDP, tens of thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk.

These are the many sectors that produce packaging, their raw material suppliers, the entire Italian recycling industry, the companies that use such packaging to market and export goods in Italy and abroad, from agriculture to all food production and catering chains, from cosmetics to pharmaceuticals, from public establishments to tourism, from small, medium and large-scale organised distribution to vending, logistics and machinery manufacturers. 

The critical aspects of the measure are unfortunately not "limited" only to the issue of reuse at the expense of recycling. There are, in fact, also production bans for various types of single-use packaging and the identification, for some types of single-use packaging, of depositing.