Article 41 The waste reduction policy, a priority that prevails over all treatment methods, will be strengthened from the eco-design of the product to its manufacture, distribution and consumption until its end of life. The responsibility of producers for the waste resulting from their products will be extended, taking into account existing shared responsibility mechanisms and strongly encouraged reduction at source. The policy relating to waste complies, under the conditions provided for in Articles 3 and 4 of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 19 November 2008, relating to waste and repealing certain directives, the hierarchy of treatment of waste fixed by these same articles prevention, preparation for reuse, recycling, material recovery, energy recovery and disposal. The processing of residual waste must be carried out primarily by energy recovery in facilities whose environmental performance will be enhanced and, failing that, for final non-recoverable waste, by landfilling. The corresponding installations must strictly justify their sizing. At the same time, the quantities of waste going to incineration or storage will be reduced overall with the aim, in order to preserve resources and prevent pollution, of a 15% reduction by 2012. With this in mind, national objectives have been set as follows: a) Reduce the production of household and similar waste by 7% per inhabitant over the next five years; b) Increase material and organic recycling in order to direct towards these sectors a rate of 35% in 2012 and 45% in 2015 of household and similar waste against 24% in 2004, this rate being increased to 75% from 2012 for household packaging waste and non-hazardous waste from companies excluding construction and public works, agriculture, agri-food industries and specific activities. In particular, improve the management of organic waste by promoting local management of the latter as a priority, with domestic and local composting, and then the methanation and composting of the fermentable fraction of household waste and more particularly that of waste from large producers collected separately to ensure in particular the environmental, sanitary and agronomic quality of the composts and the traceability of their return to the soil. To encourage waste recycling and recovery, France supports the development at Community level of an appropriate legal status for these raw materials