Article 1
1. This Directive is a specific Directive within the meaning of Article 3 of Directive 76/893/EEC. 2. This Directive shall apply to plastic materials and articles, that is to say to materials and articles and parts thereof: (a) consisting exclusively of plastics, or (b) composed of two or more layers of materials, each consisting exclusively of plastics, which are bound together by means of adhesives or by any other means, which, in the finished product state, are intended to come into contact or are brought into contact with foodstuffs and are intended for that purpose. 3. For the purposes of this Directive, 'plastics' shall mean the organic macromolecular compounds obtained by polymerization, polycondensation, polyaddition or any other similar process from molecules with a lower molecular weight or by chemical alteration of natural macromolecules. Silicones and other similar macromolecular compounds shall also be regarded as plastics. Other substances or matter may be added to such macromolecular compounds. However, the following shall not be regarded as 'plastics': (i) varnished or unvarnished regenerated cellulose film; (ii) elastomers and natural and synthetic rubber; (iii) paper and paperboard, whether modified or not by the addition of plastics; (iv) surface coatings obtained from: - paraffin waxes, including synthetic paraffin waxes, and/or micro-crystalline waxes, - mixtures of the waxes listed in the first indent with each other and/or with plastics. 4. This Directive shall not apply to materials and articles composed or two or more layers, one or more of which does not consist exclusively of plastics, even if the one intended to come into direct contact with foodstuffs does consist exclusively of plastics. A decision on the application of this Directive to the materials and articles referred to in the first subparagraph and on any adaptations to the Directive that may become necessary shall be taken at a later date.