Morocco Expands Plastic Bag Ban with New Industrial Regulations

This draft decree, drawn up by the Minister of Industry, Trade, Green Economy and Digital, was presented to Parliament. It aims to set the technical characteristics of industrial plastic bags whose supply is prohibited to persons other than those who use them for the purposes for which they are intended.

This draft decree also allows to define how to place the brand or print the individual label that allows to establish the uses for which these bags are intended. It also allows to determine the model and type of information to be recorded in the special register that must be kept by each manufacturer or importer of industrial plastic bags.

It also defines the model of the register to be kept by any importer of plastic materials, plastic recycling unit or manufacturing, importing or exporting plastic bags. This model must, in addition, take into account the data relating to its activity, whether on paper or electronic media. It must also establish a model form for the declaration of the activity and the procedures for its electronic filing.