If Amazon has deactivated your listings, or emailed you about extended producer responsibility (EPR), this guide is the fix. Since 12 August 2026, a marketplace has to hold your EPR registration number for the country your buyer is in before it can let you sell there.
Below is how to get the right EPR number for each country and enter it in Seller Central, so your listings go back up and stay up. It is written for anyone selling into the EU through Amazon, based in Europe or shipping in from outside it.
What you need before you start
Getting the number is mostly form-filling. What slows people down is not having the details ready, so pull three things together first.
You need your company details (legal name, address, and tax or VAT number), your product and packaging data (what each item is made of and what it weighs), and a list of the Amazon marketplaces you actually sell on.
That last list decides how many numbers you need, and the product data is what every register asks for.
Why Amazon asks for an EPR number
Under EPR rules, an online marketplace is not just a middleman. Since 12 August 2026, Article 45(4) of the EU packaging regulation has told platforms to obtain your register number for the country your buyer sits in, before letting you sell there.
Article 45(6) adds that the platform has to make best efforts to check that what you gave it is complete and reliable. So Amazon checks, and a listing it cannot match to a number gets pulled.
For a sense of the scale behind these rules, we put numbers on how much waste Amazon produces across its packaging and operations.
That shapes the whole job into three moves. You get a number from each country's producer register, you enter it in Amazon Seller Central, and you keep it valid.
The catch is that there is no single European number. You do this per country you sell in, and per type of waste your products fall under (packaging, electronics, batteries, and so on), so a German number does nothing for your French listings.
Which EPR number each Amazon marketplace wants
Every EU country you sell into can now ask you for a number. Four marketplaces have been enforcing that the longest, and each wants a different number from a different register, so start with what those four ask for.
Where to begin in every other EU country is further down.
| Amazon marketplace | The number Amazon checks, and who issues it | Waste streams Amazon gates |
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| Germany (amazon.de) | A 13-digit LUCID number for packaging, from the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister, plus a stiftung ear number for each other stream | Packaging, electronics, batteries |
| France (amazon.fr) | A unique identifier (identifiant unique) per category, issued when a take-back scheme registers you with the environment agency ADEME | Up to 19 categories, including packaging, electronics, batteries, furniture and textiles |
| Spain (amazon.es) | A number starting ENV, followed by the year and a serial, from the MITECO producer register, joined through a scheme | Packaging, batteries, and more |
| Austria (amazon.at) | A packaging registration number from the national scheme, with a representative for foreign sellers | Packaging, electronics, batteries |
Two things to read off that table.
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The numbers do not travel. A German LUCID number is useless on Amazon in France or Spain, and each waste stream needs its own registration.
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This is not new, and it is not shrinking. Amazon has required a LUCID number for German packaging since 1 July 2022, added German electronics from 1 January 2023, and switched on Spain and further categories since.
That was the picture before 12 August 2026. Since that date the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) has made the registration check part of the rulebook for every EU country, so the honest answer to which marketplaces need a number is now every EU one you sell into.
Amazon's own seller pages still set out Germany, France and Austria in the most detail, and those are where sellers hit the wall first. Do not read a country's absence from that list as permission to skip it.
Where to start in every other EU country
The four above are only where Amazon has been checking longest. Everywhere else the shape of the job is identical: one national register, one registration per waste stream, one number to paste into Seller Central.
That is not a guess about how countries behave. PPWR Article 44 makes every EU country run a producer register and publish its list of registered producers in a form that is searchable and machine readable, so there is always a register to find and always a way to check that you are on it.
Below is where to start in the markets Amazon sellers ask about most after the big four.
| Country | Where you register |
|---|---|
| Italy | RENAP, the national producers register run by the environment ministry |
| Netherlands | Rijkswaterstaat, where producer responsibility goes by the Dutch initials UPV |
| Poland | BDO, the products and packaging database run by the climate ministry |
| Sweden | Naturvårdsverket, the environmental protection agency, alongside an approved scheme |
| Belgium | The Interregional Packaging Commission, shared by the three regions |
| Ireland | Repak for packaging. PRL is the register for electronics, batteries and tyres, not for packaging |
For anywhere not listed, our directory of national EPR registers covers 46 registers across 31 countries, so you can find yours and go straight to it.
How to get your EPR numbers step by step
The sequence is the same whatever you sell. You run it once for each marketplace, and once for each waste stream on that marketplace.
1. Work out exactly which numbers you need
Start with a simple grid. Down one side, list the Amazon marketplaces you sell on. Across the top, list the waste streams your products fall under. Wherever a marketplace and a stream meet, that is one registration and one number.
Most sellers under-count here. The box a gadget ships in is packaging, and the gadget itself is electronics, so a single product on a single marketplace can already need two numbers. Get the grid right and the rest is just working through it.
This is what that grid looks like for a seller on three marketplaces.
2. Register with each country's producer register to get the number
For each cell in your grid, you register with that country's producer register, and in most cases you also join a compliance scheme (a producer responsibility organisation, or PRO) that does the actual recycling. Registering is what earns you the number.
The names change by country.
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In Germany, packaging goes in LUCID, run by the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister, and electronics and batteries go through stiftung ear.
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In France, a take-back scheme registers you with ADEME and issues an identifiant unique for each category.
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In Spain, a scheme registers you with the MITECO producer register, which issues a number starting ENV, followed by the year and a serial.
If your company is not based in the country, some registers make you work through an authorised representative there. Germany already requires one for electronics and batteries, and Austria for foreign sellers, so check that before you start rather than halfway through.
Our full guide to registering for EPR walks through this step in more depth.
Each registration hands back the number Amazon will later check.
3. Enter each number in Amazon Seller Central
This is the step people forget, and it is the one that actually turns your listings back on. Registering earns you a number, but Amazon only acts on what you put into it.
In Seller Central, open the Compliance Information for Extended Producer Responsibility portal (Amazon keeps one section per country). Pick the marketplace, pick the category, enter the number exactly as the register issued it, and submit. Repeat for every marketplace and every category in your grid.
Each entry carries the same three values, and you file one for every row of your grid.
4. Let Amazon verify and watch your listing status
After you submit, Amazon checks the number against the national register. This is not instant, and until it clears, the affected listings can stay suppressed.
Once the number is verified, the block lifts and your listings go live again. If Amazon rejects a number, it is almost always because it does not match the register (a typo, the wrong type of number, or a registration that is not active yet), so fix it at the source and resubmit.
A listing moves from suppressed to active once Amazon matches your number to the register.
5. Keep every number valid and reported
An EPR number is not a one-off. You report your volumes to each register or scheme on their schedule (often once a year), pay the fees, and renew. Let a registration lapse and Amazon pulls the listings again, the same as if you had never registered.
Holding that together across stores, categories and filing dates is a routine of its own. Our guide to managing EPR for ecommerce sellers walks through it.
Reporting, paying and renewing keep each number valid, which is what keeps your listings live.
Where Repax fits into this
Doing all of this by hand means a login, a form, and a deadline for every country and stream, sitting on top of a product spreadsheet that has to feed each one. Repax is built to take that work off your plate, and it splits the job the same way this guide does.
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Repax Core gets your data ready. Spec each product and its packaging once (materials, weights, components) and Core turns it into the figures every register and Amazon field asks for. It is live now, from €0 a month.
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Repax Comply handles the filing itself, registering you and submitting across EU markets from one place so the numbers land where they need to. German packaging is the exception: the LUCID registration stays personal to you.
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Repax Declare handles the EU packaging Declaration of Conformity, if your packaging needs one under the PPWR. It is live now.
Repax does not make you compliant on its own, and it does not enter your numbers into Amazon for you. Core does the data groundwork every registration depends on, and Comply does the registering and filing.
Pricing is public: a free tier at €0 a month, paid plans from €29 a month, and a custom tier for high volume (as of July 2026).
If your listings are down right now and you are not sure which numbers you are missing, book a free meeting and we will map your marketplaces and waste streams against what each register asks for.
Still comparing tools? Our best EPR software rundown lines up the main options, Repax included, and there is a version for ecommerce sellers too.
The one thing sellers get wrong
Plenty of sellers get their LUCID number or their French identifiant unique, file it away, and stay suppressed for weeks wondering why. Amazon does not read the national register for you. It only acts on the number you typed into the Seller Central compliance portal, so a number that never gets entered does nothing for your listings.
The close cousin of this mistake is entering the wrong number. Amazon wants the official register number (the LUCID number, the identifiant unique, the Spanish ENV number), not your contract reference with a recycling scheme. Enter the register number, keep it valid, and the block stays off.
If you take one thing from this guide, remember that being registered is not the same as being cleared on Amazon.
Common questions about EPR numbers for Amazon
Short, self-contained answers to what Amazon sellers ask most.
How long does it take to get an EPR number for Amazon?
It depends on the country and how ready your product data is. Once your materials and weights are together a single registration can be quick, but some registers take days to weeks to activate the number, and Amazon then needs time to verify it.
Does a German LUCID number work on Amazon in France or Spain?
No. EPR numbers are national. Your LUCID number covers German packaging only. To sell the same product on Amazon in France or Spain you register separately in each country and enter each country's own number in Seller Central.
In which countries does Amazon require an EPR number?
Since 12 August 2026 the requirement reaches every EU country you sell into, not a short list. Germany, France, Spain and Austria are simply where Amazon has been enforcing longest, so treat the rest as live too.
What happens if I sell on Amazon without an EPR number?
Amazon deactivates the non-compliant listings, or complies on your behalf and charges you for it. On top of that the national rules still apply. In Germany, placing packaging on the market without registering can bring fines of up to €200,000, so the marketplace block is only part of the risk.
Can I let Amazon deal with EPR for me?
Only part of it. A marketplace can cover your financial contributions under a written mandate, which is what the comply-on-your-behalf offer rests on. It cannot register or report for you, and German registration cannot be delegated at all.
Do I need a separate number for every product I sell?
No, not per product. You register per waste stream per country, so all your packaging in one country usually sits under one packaging number and all your electronics under another. More streams or countries mean more numbers, more products do not.
