(1) ‘Board substrate’ means paperboard, cardboard or board, unprinted and not converted, with a basis weight higher than 400 g/m2;

(2) ‘Consumables’ means chemical products used during the printing, coating and finishing processes and capable of being consumed, destroyed, dissipated, wasted or spent;

(3) ‘Converted paper product’ is a paper, paperboard or paper based substrates, either printed or unprinted, generally used to protect, handle or store items and/or notes, for which the converting process is an essential part of the production process, comprising three main categories of products: envelopes, paper carrier bags and stationery paper products;

(4) ‘Stationery paper products’ include folders, binders, notebooks, pads, notepads, exercise books, spiral-bound notebook, calendars with covers, diaries and loose-leafs;

(5) ‘Converting process’ means a process whereby a material is processed into a converted paper product. This process can include a printing process (pre-press, press, and post-press operations);

(6) ‘Halogenated organic solvent’ means an organic solvent which contains at least one atom of bromine, chlorine, fluorine or iodine per molecule;

(7) ‘Non-paper components’ means all the parts of a converted paper product that do not consist of paper, paperboard or paper based substrates;

(8) ‘Packaging’ means all products made of any materials of any nature to be used for the containment, protection, handling, delivery and presentation of goods, from raw materials to processed goods, from the producer to the user or the consumer;

(9) ‘Paper carrier bags’ are paper-based products used for the handling/transportation of goods;

(10) ‘Recycling’ means any recovery operation by which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials or substances whether for the original purpose or other purposes, except for energy recovery and the reprocessing into materials that are to be used as fuels or for backfilling operations;

(11) ‘Recycled fibres’ means fibres diverted from the waste stream during a manufacturing process or generated by end-users of the product, which can no longer be used for their intended purpose. Excluded is reutilisation of materials generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it (mill broke — own produced or purchased);

(12) ‘Folders’ mean folding cases or covers for loose papers, such as suspension files, indices and dividers, document wallet, 3-flap folders, and square cut folders;

(13) ‘Binders’ are paper-based products consisting of a cover, usually made of board, with rings for holding loose papers together, such as ring binders and lever arch files;

(14) ‘Volatile Organic Compounds’ (VOC) means any organic compound as well as the fraction of creosote, having at 293,15 K a vapour pressure of 0,01 kPa or more, or having a corresponding volatility under the particular conditions of use;

(15) ‘Washing agents’ means: chemicals used to wash printing forms and printing presses to remove printing inks, paper dust and similar products; cleaners for finishing machines and printing machines; printing inks removers used in washing off dried printing inks;

(16) ‘Waste paper’ means paper generated during the production of finished converted paper product and which does not form part thereof.