Italy has enacted a decree under its National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) to prohibit the commercialization of plastic tableware (plates, cutlery, and similar items) marketed as reusable when they do not meet established reusability standards. The measure addresses a normative vacuum that emerged following the EU's Single-Use Plastics Directive implementation, which banned numerous single-use plastic products but failed to define minimum technical requirements for qualifying products as genuinely reusable. This decree establishes clear criteria to distinguish authentic reusable products from those falsely claiming reusability status, thereby strengthening producer responsibility and consumer protection in the packaging and tableware sector. The regulation directly impacts producers and importers of plastic tableware in Italy, who must ensure compliance with the newly defined reusability standards.