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PKW/0 - Packaging

Sector: Manufacturing

Categories: Waste. Equipment and installations. Disposal and treatment. | Trucks and trailers | Beverages. Alcoholic | Protective equipment. Head | Playgrounds | Road vehicle engineering | Food industry. Processes | Vegetables. Derived products | Medicaments | Bottles. Pots. Jars | Concrete and concrete products | Cases. Boxes. Crates | Sacks. Bags | Graphical symbols. Specific equipment | Freight distribution. General | Public information symbols | Sugar. Sugar products | Wastes. Other | Information coding. Character sets | Standardization. General rules | Mineral materials and products | Rubber and plastics industries | Packaging and distribution | Pharmaceutics. General | Complete, filled transport packages | Alarm and warning systems | Measuring instruments. Temperature | Barrels. Drums. Canisters | Milk and processed milk products | Pins, nails | Other standards related to freight distribution of goods | Meat and meat products | Food products. General | | Ignitability and burning behaviour. Materials and products | Fish and fishery products | Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs | Aerosol containers | Pharmaceutics. Other | Masonry | Storage equipment | Environmental protection | Wastes. General | Protection against dangerous goods | Packaging and distribution | Cookware, cutlery and flatware | Packaging and distribution. General | Adhesives | Environmental economics | Metal corrosion | Containers. General purpose | Surface preparation | Explosion protection | Pallets. General purpose | Glass. Products | Aids. Blind or partially sighted people | Environmental impact assessment | Measuring instruments | Clamps, staples | Accident and disaster control | Freight distribution | Product life-cycles | In vitro diagnostic test systems | Aerospace electric equipment and systems | Industrial trucks | Quantities and units | Environment and environmental protection. General | | Thermoplastic materials | Graphical symbols. Other | Special purpose vehicles | Packaging materials and accessories | Graphical symbols. General | Wood, sawlogs and sawn timber | Recycling | Beverages. General | Environment. Health protection. Safety | Air quality. General | Ambient atmospheres | Equipment for children | Cans. Tins. Tubes | Gas pressure vessels, gas cylinders | Waterproofing | Shipbuilding. Materials and components

Overview: Under the direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, PKW/0 is the policy making, liaison and communication body responsible for the standards drafting being undertaken in its sub committees and panels. This includes mirroring the work of CEN/TC 261, CEN/TC 261/SC 4, CEN/TC 261/SC 5, ISO/TC 122, ISO/TC 122/SC 3, ISO/TC 51, ISO/TC 52, ISO/TC 63 and CEN/TC 368.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (75)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

PD ISO/TS 18617 Hand hole design principles and test methods for handheld packages

Categories: Packaging materials and accessories

Approval begins :
Approval
PD ISO/TS 18614 Packaging - Label Material - Required information for ordering and speci fying self-adhesive labels

Categories: Unclassified documents

Approval begins :
Approval
PD ISO/TR 24168 Effective use of an RF tag on a Returnable Transport Item (RTI) to obtain information concerning goods on/in RTIs

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2025-12-31
Drafting
PD ISO/TR 22251-2 Measurement results for the use of RFID on returnable transport items. Part 2: Plastic returnable transport items

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2025-12-31
Drafting
PD ISO/TR 22251-2 Application Guideline for use of RFID on Returnable Transport Items. Part 2: For Plastic RTIs

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2023-09-08
Drafting
PD ISO/TR 22251 RFID Application Guidelines for Metal Returnable Transport Items

Categories: Unclassified documents

Comment resolution begins : 2019-06-27
Comment resolution
New Work Item Proposal - Revision of EN 16284

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-07-25
Proposal
New Work Item Proposal - Revision of EN 15421

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-07-25
Proposal
New Work Item Proposal - Revision of EN 15384-2

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-07-25
Proposal
New Work Item Proposal Packaging – Glass finishes for snap-on pourer closures (so-called “Verplast” finishes)

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-01-06
Proposal
Published (121)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

PD ISO/TS 22984:2021 Transport packaging. Cleaning and sanitation methods of reusable transport items for distribution purpose

Categories: Packaging and distribution. General

Published standard begins : 2022-01-13
Published standard
PD ISO/TS 21985:2022 Light gauge metal containers. Non-refillable LPG cartridges. General requirements

Categories: Cans. Tins. Tubes

Published standard begins : 2022-08-23
Published standard
PD ISO/TS 19709-3:2016 Transport packaging. Small load container systems. Bond Stackable System (BSS)

Categories: Packaging and distribution. General

Published standard begins : 2016-06-29
Published standard
PD ISO/TS 19709-2:2016 Transport packaging. Small load container systems. Column Stackable System (CSS)

Categories: Packaging and distribution. General

Published standard begins : 2016-02-04
Published standard
PD ISO/TS 18614:2016 Packaging. Label material. Required information for ordering and specifying self-adhesive labels

Categories: Packaging and distribution. General

Published standard begins : 2016-07-11
Published standard
PD ISO/TS 17451-2:2017 Packaging. Codification of contents for inventories for shipments of household goods and personal effects. XML messaging structure for electronic transmission of inventory data

Categories: Packaging and distribution. General

Published standard begins : 2017-09-18
Published standard
PD ISO/IEC GUIDE 41:2018 Packaging. Recommendations for addressing consumer needs

Categories: Standardization. General rules | Packaging and distribution. General

Published standard begins : 2018-10-09
Published standard
PD CR 14311:2002 Packaging. Marking and material identification system

Categories: Packaging and distribution. General

Published standard begins : 2004-05-19
Published standard
PD CR 13686:2001 Packaging. Optimzation of energy recovery from packaging waste

Categories: Wastes. Other | Packaging materials and accessories

Published standard begins : 2004-06-01
Published standard
PD CEN/TR 14520:2007 Packaging. Reuse. Methods for assessing the performance of a reuse system

Categories: Recycling | Complete, filled transport packages

Published standard begins : 2007-09-04
Published standard
Withdrawn (69)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

DD 264:2007 Packaging. Braille and other formats for medicinal products

Categories: Pharmaceutics. Other

Withdrawn begins : 2010-07-09
Withdrawn
CEN/TR 13695-2:2004 CEN/TR13695-2 : 2004 Packaging - Requirements for measuring and verifying the four heavy metals and other dangerous substances present in packaging and their release to the environment-. Part 2: Requirements for measuring and verifying dangerous substances present in packaging and their release into the environment.

Categories: Environmental impact assessment | Packaging and distribution. General

Withdrawn begins : 2019-02-18
Withdrawn
BS ISO 28219:2009 Packaging. Labelling and direct product marking with linear bar code and two-dimensional symbols

Categories: | Packaging and distribution. General

Withdrawn begins : 2017-10-13
Withdrawn
BS ISO 22742:2005 Packaging. Linear bar code and two-dimensional symbols for product packaging

Categories: | Packaging and distribution. General | Graphical symbols. Other

Withdrawn begins : 2011-07-05
Withdrawn
BS ISO 21067:2007 Packaging. Vocabulary

Categories: Packaging and distribution | Packaging and distribution. General

Withdrawn begins : 2008-05-29
Withdrawn
BS ISO 20848-3:2006 Packaging. Plastics drums. Plug/bungs closure systems for plastics drums with a nominal capacity of 113,6 l to 220 l

Categories: Barrels. Drums. Canisters

Withdrawn begins : 2008-12-02
Withdrawn
BS ISO 20848-2:2006 Packaging. Plastics drums. Non-removable head (tight head) drums with a nominal capacity of 208,2 l and 220 l

Categories: Barrels. Drums. Canisters

Withdrawn begins : 2008-12-03
Withdrawn
BS ISO 20848-1:2006 Packaging. Plastics drums. Removable head (open head) drums with a nominal capacity of 113,6 l to 220 l

Categories: Barrels. Drums. Canisters

Withdrawn begins : 2008-12-02
Withdrawn
BS ISO 18334:2003 Pallets for materials handling. Quality of assembly of new, wooden, flat pallets

Categories: Pallets. General purpose

Withdrawn begins : 2010-07-09
Withdrawn
BS ISO 18333:2002 Pallets for materials handling. Quality of new wooden components for flat pallets

Categories: Pallets. General purpose

Withdrawn begins : 2014-08-29
Withdrawn