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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is the rulebook that makes producers, importers, retailers, and distributors financially responsible for the end-of-life of what they sell. Different countries, different categories, different fees — but one shared idea: the polluter pays.
This topic gathers practical writing on what EPR actually requires, how rules differ between markets, and the moves that keep compliance teams ahead of the next deadline.
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Austria takes all three EPR registrations into one government register, EDM, but for packaging your licensed system files the entry for you. Below are the six steps to register packaging, electronics and batteries in the right order, with who files each one and what each makes due next.
Denmark takes all three EPR registrations in one register run by Dansk Producentansvar (DPA), each with its own fee and its own rule on who files it. Below are the six steps to register packaging, electronics and batteries in the right order, with what each form asks for and what each registration makes due next.
Poland puts packaging, electronics and batteries into one register, BDO, but a company abroad reaches it three different ways. Below are the six steps to get your BDO entry in the right order, with who files each stream and what the entry makes due next.
All three of Belgium's EPR registrations run through a scheme that files the official entry for its members. Below are the six steps to join Fost Plus or Valipac, Recupel and Bebat in the right order, with who signs up for each one and what each makes due next.
Sweden takes all three EPR notifications in one register at one agency, Naturvårdsverket, but each needs a producer responsibility organisation first. Below are the six steps to register packaging, electronics and batteries in the right order, with who files each one and what each makes due next.
Two of the Netherlands' three EPR registrations run through producer organisations and only batteries go to a state register. Below are the six steps to register with Verpact, Stichting OPEN and Rijkswaterstaat in the right order, with who files each one and what each makes due next.
Spain registers packaging with the environment ministry and electronics and batteries with the Ministry of Industry. Below are the six steps to get into the RPP, the RII-AEE and the RII-PyA in the right order, with who files each one and what each makes due next.
Italy registers electronics and batteries with the state and packaging through CONAI, a private consortium. Below are the six steps to get into the Registro AEE, the Registro Pile and CONAI in the right order, with who files each one and what each makes due next.
France records every EPR stream in one register, SYDEREP, and the entry is always made by your éco-organisme rather than by you. Below are the six steps to hold an IDU for packaging, electronics and batteries in the right order, with what each éco-organisme asks for and what each IDU makes due next.
The UK runs its own EPR rules outside the EU, with three registrations for packaging, electronics and batteries and no authorised representative for two of them. Below are the six steps to get registered through Report packaging data, the WEEE service and NPWD in the right order, with who files each one and what each makes due next.
Germany runs three producer registers for the streams most producers trigger, and it gives three different answers to who may file each one from abroad. Below are the six steps to get registered in LUCID and with stiftung ear in the right order, with what each register asks for and what each one makes due next.
bol will take your listings offline in the Netherlands and Belgium if your extended producer responsibility duties are not covered, yet there is no field anywhere on the platform for an EPR registration number. Below are the seven categories bol gate today, the three documents they accept as proof, and the packaging check they have not switched on yet.
EPR is written at EU level and filed country by country, so the second market changes the shape of the work rather than just the amount. This guide builds one country matrix that holds every duty, every data cut and every deadline in one place.
Allegro ask packaged-goods sellers for two things, a registration number for every country they dispatch to and an accepted packaging declaration, and right now they are enforcing neither.
Otto ask how you stand on extended producer responsibility as part of the application to sell on otto.de, at step seven of a ten-step onboarding. Below is what those questions are really asking for, which registrations German law requires even though Otto never mention them, and how long each one takes to obtain.
Germany runs extended producer responsibility through four separate registers, and on 12 August 2026 it replaced the law behind the biggest one. Below is which registers your products trigger, who is allowed to file with each of them, and what falls due across a German year.
Amazon checks an EPR seller twice, once as the shop window and once as the warehouse behind it when you use Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA). This guide is the standing routine that keeps both checks clear and your listings live.
eBay asks for your EPR numbers in four EU countries, and the number does not always go in the same place. This guide walks through where each one goes in Germany, France, Italy and Spain, what you have to register for first, and what keeps the numbers valid once they are in.
Kaufland ask for an EPR registration number on all nine of their European marketplaces, and they check what you enter rather than simply storing it. This guide walks through which numbers each country asks for, who is allowed to obtain them, and the German packaging number nobody is allowed to obtain for you.
More than one, and not the same set in every market. Zalando validate the EPR numbers a partner hands over against the public register, and say that from 1 January 2027 an assortment without EPR details gets blocked. Below is which number each of their markets asks for, why a fashion assortment ends up carrying two registrations at once, and what has to match before a number is accepted.
Most of what you pay is decided by two things, the weight of packaging you declare and how recyclable that packaging is. This guide works through the six changes that move them, starting with the ones that land on your next report.
TikTok Shop asks you for an EPR registration number in thirteen EU markets, and it does two very different things when you have not got one. Below is what the platform asks for market by market, where each number comes from, what its Pay on Behalf fee covers, and what stays yours whatever you pay.
Germany will not let you sell a packaged product until you are in the LUCID packaging register, and the law says you have to enter yourself rather than pay someone to do it for you. Here is what the register asks for, what your registration number is good for, and the two duties that begin the moment you have one.
Yes, and Etsy asks for it per country and per product category rather than as a single number. Below is which register issues each one in Germany, France and Spain, the exact place in Shop Manager where the numbers go, and the twelve-week rule in the regulation that decides how early you need to start.
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