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Overview

The PPWR master data in Polygon One follows the structure of the regulation: substance, material and recycled-content data lives on the component, several components form a packaging unit, and packaging units are linked to the articles they package. 
Article  ──packaged by──▶  Packaging unit  ──made of──▶  Component
(product)                  (subject of DoC)              (material/evidence)

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The three levels

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Article

Articles are your products — the same shared master data the EUDR module uses (an article is never created twice). In the PPWR context, the article serves to associate a packaging with a product and to derive packaging volumes and per-article readiness from it.

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Packaging unit

The packaging unit is the central entity of the PPWR module and the subject of the Declaration of Conformity: every EU Declaration of Conformity (Annex VIII) and technical documentation (Annex VII) is created per packaging unit. A packaging unit carries its master data (name, reference, packaging type, role, target markets …) and a bill of materials of its components.
  • Managed under: sidebar → Packaging units (/packaging)
  • See Packaging units

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Component

A component is a single packaging material (e.g. a carton box, a film pouch, a label). The component holds the data that matters for Art. 5: materials, heavy-metal value, PFAS data, recycled content. A component is reusable — the same component can be part of several packaging units and is linked to each with a quantity.
  • Managed under: sidebar → Components (/packaging/components)
  • See Components
Because a component is shared across many units, you maintain its sustainability data once — every linked packaging unit accesses the same record.
  • Packaging unit ⇄ component (the bill of materials): on a packaging unit’s detail page in the Components (bill of materials) tab — link an existing component or create a new one, each with a quantity.
  • Article ⇄ packaging unit: on a packaging unit’s detail page in the Articles tab — link existing articles.
Both links can also be created in bulk via CSV/Excel import.

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Where completeness is shown

Polygon One shows data completeness — not a legal conformity verdict, but whether the evidence the technical documentation needs is present. Completeness is computed per component and rolled up to the unit:
  • A component is Complete when its heavy-metal value is present and — for food-contact parts — a PFAS attestation. Nothing missing → Complete; partly filled → In progress; nothing filled → Incomplete.
  • A packaging unit is only as complete as its least-complete component: Complete only when it has at least one component and all are complete; without components → Incomplete.
The Data completeness badge appears in the components list, in a unit’s bill of materials, and as a column in the packaging-units list.
Recycled content and mass deliberately do not count towards completeness: the related obligations (Art. 7 recycled content, Art. 10 minimisation) only bind from 2030. The values are captured but never block completeness or the issuance of the Declaration of Conformity.

Packaging units

Create, fields, bill of materials.

Components

Materials, heavy metals, PFAS, recycled content.

Import

Units, components and bill of materials via CSV/Excel.