Greece hands every producer a single registration number and then asks for a separate declaration behind it for each scheme the catalogue touches. The work is not getting the number. It is keeping one set of packaging figures straight across several filings that all have to agree with each other.
This page ranks six providers of Greek EPR software on that work, from holding the product data through to signing the forms. It also says plainly which of them will put their own name to a filing and which will not.
Greece issues one producer number and then asks for a filing per scheme
Every stream runs through EMPA, the National Producers Register, which the Hellenic Recycling Agency EOAN operates.
Registration is not a formality you catch up on later. EOAN's own rules say a producer must register before placing products on the Greek market, and the certificate the register prints is the document that proves it.
That matters commercially as well as legally. Without a producer number you cannot trade lawfully in Greece, and you cannot bid for public tenders, which makes the registration the first thing a Greek buyer checks.
One number with a certificate for every stream
The number itself is simple. EOAN issues one Producer Registration Number, the ΑΜΠ, and it is unique to the company no matter how many products sit in the register.
The paperwork behind it is not simple. The register issues a separate certificate for each product category, and each certificate names the scheme you contracted for that category.
Sell packaged electronics with batteries in them and you hold three certificates against one number, each pointing at a different counterparty.
Eight streams sit in the register today. Six of them were there from the start, namely packaging including carrier bags, vehicles, tyres, lubricating oils, batteries and electrical equipment. Single-use plastics and fishing gear were added later under Law 4819/2021.
The register checks your numbers against your scheme's
This is the part that decides whether Greek reporting is easy or painful, and it is the reason the data has to be right before it is filed anywhere.
Your annual declaration is not one document. EOAN's instructions are explicit that each declaration corresponds to one scheme, and that a producer contracted with more than one scheme repeats the whole procedure once for every scheme it has contracted.
Each declaration is also limited to the product categories that scheme is approved for.
Then the register reconciles them. EOAN's own step list sets out four things that have to happen before a registration counts as complete.
- You finalise the declaration yourself.
- Your scheme confirms that an active contract is in force.
- The system flags any discrepancy between the quantities held in EMPA and the quantities declared in the scheme's own system.
- EOAN confirms last.
Step three is the one to design for. Greece is asking the same catalogue two questions and comparing the answers, so figures that disagree with each other are caught by the system rather than by an auditor years later.
The deadline is 31 March each year, covering the previous calendar year.
Selling in from outside Greece needs a Greek representative
A producer with a registered office outside Greece cannot register directly. EOAN requires an authorised representative established in Greece who takes on the obligation to register the producer.
The appointment runs on a signed written mandate, and it goes both to EOAN and to every scheme you have contracted.
The consequence of skipping it is specific. Where a distance seller has no Greek authorised representative, the marketplace facilitating the sale carries the producer duty instead, which is why platforms ask for the number before they let you list.
What sits outside the register
Three duties fall outside EMPA, and each one catches a different kind of seller.
Construction is the genuinely unusual one
Greece runs producer responsibility for construction and demolition materials, which few EU countries do. It is one reason Greek producer responsibility covers more ground than most.
It runs through regional collective systems such as ANAKEM rather than through EMPA, and the obligated parties there are project managers and contractors, not the producer of a packaged product.
The deposit system is adopted but has not started
A beverage deposit-return scheme was adopted by ministerial decision in early 2025 and DRS Hellas was set up to run it. As of this writing DRS Hellas describes its own services as being activated in phases, and publishes no launch date.
The scheme will cover plastic bottles and metal cans up to three litres, at €0.10 for containers up to half a litre and €0.15 above that. Plan for it, but do not budget for it as a live cost yet.
PPWR reaches the packaging itself
Regulation (EU) 2025/40 has applied directly across the EU since 12 August 2026, Greece included, and it reaches the packaging itself rather than only the fee. The EU Declaration of Conformity that comes with it is a document you hold and produce on request, not something you file in EMPA.
Where the six providers sit between software and a Greek representative
Greece has no home-grown EPR software. Search in English or in Greek and what comes back is the Greek schemes themselves plus pan-European platforms and service firms, so every provider below reaches Greece from somewhere else. The one thing that genuinely has to be Greek is the representative.
That splits the six into three lanes.
- They will sign for you. Lappa and amavat both register producers and prepare or submit the reports. Lappa publishes an authorised representative service outright, which is the thing a non-Greek seller actually needs.
- They prepare the filing without becoming the filer. ComplyMarket and ecosistant both work the registration and the data, and ecosistant is one of the few to state the Greek representative requirement plainly on its own site rather than leaving a foreign seller to discover it.
- They are the counterparty or the data layer. HERRCO is a scheme, so joining it takes on the recovery duty but leaves both declarations on your desk. Repax Core is the product-data platform those declarations are built from, and it does not press submit either (that is Comply, a separate membership).
Neither end of that spectrum is better than the other. Which one is right depends entirely on whether you have a Greek establishment.
What we looked for in Greek EPR software
The bar was set by the duties above rather than by feature lists, and every provider ranked here names Greece on its own site or is an approved Greek scheme.
| What we looked for | Why it matters in Greece |
|---|---|
| Whether one catalogue can feed several declarations | A multi-stream producer files once per scheme, not once in total |
| Whether the figures can be reconciled before filing | EOAN checks the EMPA quantities against the scheme's own |
| Whether it can be your representative | A producer with no Greek office cannot register without one |
| How many of the eight streams it reaches | One number covers all eight, but each needs its own contract |
| What it publishes about price | Greek scheme fees have no public tariff, so a provider hiding its own adds a second unknown |
The best Greek EPR software ranked
Six providers, ordered by how much of a Greek producer's work they take off the desk. The first is our own, and we have tried to be straight about where it stops.
1. Repax
Repax is a product-data platform first and a reporting tool second, which suits Greece for a specific reason.
Core holds one record per product and per component, carrying material, weight and how the parts come apart, then turns that record into the figures a given market wants.
Greece asks the same catalogue for a register declaration and a scheme declaration and then compares them. Having one source behind both is the difference between a reconciliation and a rewrite.
Try Repax Core for free - no card required Describe your products once and Core builds the report each market and scheme expects. Try it freeIt is also worth being blunt about the limits, since Repax is our own product. It is not a Greek scheme, it cannot be your authorised representative, and it does not submit in EMPA on your behalf. It builds and holds the numbers that whoever does submit will need.
- Best for a producer who wants one packaging record behind Greece and every other market it sells into.
- What it does for a Greek filing turns component-level records into the weights each scheme and the register ask for, so both declarations come from the same figures.
- Who presses submit you do, whoever you appoint, or Comply.
- Markets and streams packaging across the EU, with Declare producing the EU Declaration of Conformity that PPWR has required since 12 August 2026. A third product, Comply, files on your behalf, with coverage confirmed country by country.
- Pricing published, with a free tier and paid plans from €29 a month.
- Watch-out it is ours, so read the ranking with that in mind, and it solves the data half of the Greek job rather than the membership half.
2. HERRCO
HERRCO, also known as EEAA, is one of the approved Greek packaging schemes and the one most packaged-goods sellers end up contracting.
Members sign a one-year participation contract, gain the right to use the European Green Dot mark, and declare through the scheme's own portal at declarations.herrco.gr. HERRCO reported 3,936 businesses under contract at 31 December 2025.
Contributions are set by packaging type and weight rather than by a flat fee, and HERRCO states they are not fixed but adjust with secondary-material prices and state recovery requirements, under uniform pricing across operators. There is no published tariff to model against in advance.
Ranking a scheme alongside software is deliberate, because for many sellers the scheme portal is the only Greek system they ever log into. It is worth being clear about what that does and does not cover.
- Best for a seller who wants the mainstream Greek packaging route and a Greek counterparty.
- What it does for a Greek filing takes your packaging declaration through its own portal and bills the contribution against it.
- Who presses submit you do, in both HERRCO's portal and EMPA.
- Markets and streams Greece, packaging only. Lubricant packaging goes to KEPED instead, and other streams need their own schemes.
- Pricing contribution by type and weight, no public tariff, adjusted under the contract.
- Watch-out joining a scheme takes on the recovery duty, not the paperwork. The EMPA declaration is still yours to file, and it has to agree with what you told the scheme.
3. Lappa
Lappa is a cross-border compliance platform that packages the Greek job the way a foreign seller actually meets it.
The product set is unusually complete for this market. Alongside registration and reporting software it publishes an authorised representative service, consolidated eco-fee payments, a fee calculator and a packaging label manager.
Tax calculation and invoicing sit in the same account, and Lappa claims support for more than 110 countries.
For Greece specifically its guide covers packaging and batteries, which matters because those are two separate contracts and two separate declarations behind the same ΑΜΠ.
- Best for a seller with no Greek establishment that wants one provider to register, represent and file.
- What it does for a Greek filing registers you, can hold the mandate as your representative, and prepares the declarations.
- Who presses submit they can, which is the main reason to pick them.
- Markets and streams packaging and batteries for Greece, with much wider country coverage claimed.
- Pricing a free 14-day trial, then quote-based. No rates are published.
- Watch-out the site does not say where the company is established, which is worth pinning down before you sign a mandate that makes someone your legal representative in Greece.
4. ComplyMarket
ComplyMarket, based in Munich, publishes a dedicated Greek packaging EPR page rather than a generic country list, and the scope it describes is the reporting work rather than the membership.
Its stated offer runs to scope assessment and EMPA registration support, packaging data modelling and annual placed-on-market calculations, plus an evidence vault and audit-ready outputs.
That last part is the interesting one for Greece, given that the register compares your two sets of figures and expects them to hold up.
What it does not say is that it will act as your authorised representative, so a seller outside Greece should ask about that before assuming it is covered.
- Best for a producer that wants the Greek data work prepared and evidenced without handing over the whole relationship.
- What it does for a Greek filing models the packaging data, calculates the annual quantities and keeps the supporting evidence together.
- Who presses submit shared, and worth confirming in writing.
- Markets and streams packaging, with country-specific pages across the EU including Greece.
- Pricing not published. Quote on request.
- Watch-out representation is not stated on the Greece page, which is the one thing a non-Greek seller cannot do without.
5. amavat
amavat comes at Greek EPR from the VAT side, which fits the sellers who meet Greece through a marketplace rather than a local entity.
Its EPR registration service covers 20 countries with Greece named explicitly, across packaging, electrical equipment and batteries.
The described scope is consultation and analysis, the registration formalities, preparation and submission of the required reports, and monitoring of changes in the rules.
The pairing is the point. A distance seller registering for Greek VAT is usually within weeks of needing an EMPA number as well, and doing both in one place avoids two sets of company documents.
- Best for a cross-border online seller already handling Greek VAT.
- What it does for a Greek filing registers you and prepares and submits the reports, with the rule changes tracked for you.
- Who presses submit they do, as part of the service.
- Markets and streams packaging, electrical equipment and batteries across 20 countries including Greece.
- Pricing not published. Quote on request.
- Watch-out it does not state that it acts as authorised representative itself, and its Greek article is written as guidance rather than as a service description.
6. ecosistant
ecosistant is the self-serve end of this list, aimed at smaller sellers who want the registration handled without a consulting relationship.
Coverage runs across the EU plus Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, so Greece is included. Its own product page describes handling the registration process with the take-back systems and authorities in each country.
It is candid about how uneven that is, saying registration can take one to two working days in some countries and up to twelve weeks in others.
It is also one of the few providers to state the Greek catch on its own site, namely that a foreign company needs either a Greek entity or an authorised representative to register at all.
- Best for a smaller online seller adding Greece to a handful of European registrations.
- What it does for a Greek filing runs the registration with the authority and the scheme and keeps the country statuses in one dashboard.
- Who presses submit they handle the registration, with reporting depending on the service level you buy.
- Markets and streams packaging across the EU plus Norway, Switzerland and the UK.
- Pricing not published on the pages checked. Quote on request.
- Watch-out the Greek timeline is not the fast one, so start well before you plan to sell rather than after the first order.
Match a provider to how many Greek declarations you owe
Greece splits buyers less by size than by how many schemes they have to contract and whether they have a Greek office at all. Five situations cover most of it.
- You are established in Greece and sell packaged goods only. Contract a packaging scheme, hold your own product data, and file the EMPA declaration and the scheme declaration off the same figures.
- You are established in Greece and your catalogue crosses streams. You need a contract and a certificate per stream, so the question is which provider can keep several declarations consistent rather than which has the nicest portal.
- You sell into Greece from another country with no Greek entity. Start with the representative, not the software. Lappa is the clearest published route, and ecosistant and amavat both register foreign sellers.
- You sell through a marketplace. Get the ΑΜΠ before you list. Without a Greek representative the duty lands on the platform, and platforms respond by asking for your number.
- You already report in several EU markets. Hold the packaging record once and let each market's filing draw from it, so Greece becomes another output rather than another spreadsheet.
Six providers compared on the jobs Greece gives you
The same six side by side, on the two questions that decide most shortlists.
| Provider | What it takes off your desk | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Repax | Holds the product record and produces figures that agree across both filings | One data source behind Greece and every other market |
| HERRCO | Is the packaging scheme and bills the contribution | The mainstream Greek packaging route |
| Lappa | Registers, represents and files | A seller with no Greek establishment |
| ComplyMarket | Prepares and evidences the Greek reporting data | Buying the data work as a service |
| amavat | Registers and files, alongside Greek VAT | Cross-border online sellers |
| ecosistant | Runs the registration and tracks country status | Smaller sellers adding a few EU countries |
Frequently asked questions about Greek EPR software
Below are the seven questions that come up most once a company works out that Greece applies to it.
What is the best EPR software for Greece?
Repax for holding the product data behind every Greek filing, which is our own product. Lappa is the better pick if you need someone to act as your Greek representative and submit for you, and HERRCO is the scheme most packaging sellers contract.
When is the Greek EPR deadline?
31 March each year, covering the previous calendar year. You file in EMPA once for every scheme you have contracted, not once in total, so a producer across packaging and batteries files two declarations by the same date.
Do I need an authorised representative in Greece?
Yes, if your company has its registered office outside Greece. EOAN requires a representative established in Greece to take on the registration, appointed by a signed written mandate sent to EOAN and to each scheme you contract.
What happens if I sell on a marketplace without registering?
The duty moves to the platform. Where a distance seller has no Greek authorised representative, the marketplace facilitating the sale carries the producer responsibility, which is why marketplaces ask sellers for a producer number before listing.
Is there free EPR software for Greece?
Repax has a free tier for holding product and packaging data, and paid plans start at €29 a month. The Greek scheme contribution and any representative service are separate costs, and neither of them is free.
Has the Greek deposit system started?
Not yet. The scheme was adopted by ministerial decision in early 2025 and DRS Hellas was set up to operate it, but the operator describes its services as being activated in phases and publishes no launch date.
Which schemes operate in Greece?
Packaging runs through HERRCO or Antapodotiki Anakyklosi, with lubricant packaging through KEPED. Electronics go to Electrocycle or Fotokiklosi, batteries to AFIS or Re-Battery, vehicles to EDOE, tyres to Ecoelastika and waste oils to ENDIALE.
