Yes, on every one of Kaufland's nine European marketplaces, and rarely just one number each. EPR registration works per country and per waste stream, so the same catalogue can owe one number in one storefront and four in the next.
The harder question is who is allowed to obtain each one, and Kaufland give three different answers to that. This guide is for anyone listing on those nine marketplaces. By the end, every number Kaufland ask you for will be in the Seller Portal where they check it.
What to gather before you start
Four things decide how much of this applies to you, and all four are worth writing down before you open the Seller Portal.
- The Kaufland marketplaces you have switched on. Each storefront is a separate country obligation rather than a setting on one account.
- Whether you have a branch or registered office in each of those countries. This single fact changes who is allowed to register on your behalf, and in one case whether anybody may.
- What your catalogue actually puts on the market. Packaging almost always, then electricals, batteries, single-use plastics and more, depending on what you list.
- The company name and address your Kaufland seller account carries. Kaufland check the number against the company that holds it, so a mismatch fails even when the number itself is real.
Who is allowed to get each number
Kaufland's own seller-university EPR guidelines set out three incompatible routes to the same kind of number.
In Germany, packaging is the one you must handle yourself. Kaufland put it plainly. The LUCID registration "is done personally by the seller, regardless of their company location", and "the commissioning of a LUCID registration by fulfillment service providers is not allowed".
Everywhere else the answer depends on where your company sits. With no local branch, Austria, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Italy all require somebody else to register for you, through an authorised representative or an approved local organisation.
Germany does the same for electricals and batteries. It is the one country that insists on a representative for two streams while forbidding one for a third.
Then there is France, where Kaufland will hand you a number themselves if you have not got one.
Two things follow from that. No single provider can cover your whole Kaufland footprint, and "our fulfilment partner handles compliance" is not a sentence that survives contact with the German packaging register.
Where Kaufland asks for a number and where the law still does
Kaufland run nine marketplaces. The European Union has twenty-seven member states. Those are different numbers, and the gap is where sellers get caught, so the four rows below cover all twenty-seven between them.
| Where you sell | What Kaufland ask you for | What the law requires anyway |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | Packaging, electricals, battery and single-use plastics numbers, checked and enforced against the registers | Registration before your first sale into the country |
| Austria, Czechia, Poland and Slovakia | A national packaging number, plus electricals and batteries where you list them | The same, plus a local representative or organisation when you have no branch there |
| France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands | A number per product category, and in France one shown in your legal notice too | The same, and in France Kaufland can supply some of those numbers themselves |
| The other eighteen EU countries | Nothing, because Kaufland run no marketplace there | Unchanged. You register before you sell there, through whichever channel you use |
That last row is the one that catches people, because Kaufland asking for nothing is not the same as nothing being owed.
Under Article 44(4) of the packaging regulation, a producer may not make packaging available in a member state for the first time unless they, or their authorised representative, are registered in that member state.
Kaufland have no storefront in those eighteen countries, so they have nothing to collect from you. The duty itself is untouched by that.
Not sure if you are registered in every country you sell in?
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- How many EU markets do you sell into?
- Do you import from outside the EU?
The five steps to a complete set of Kaufland numbers
Five steps, in the order that wastes the least time. Work out what you owe, start the German packaging number first because it has the longest tail, then the countries that need a representative, then France, and finally the screen where all of them land.
Step 1. Work out which streams each marketplace pulls in
EPR is not one register. It is a separate registration per waste stream per country, and a single parcel can trigger several of them at once.
Kaufland's own test for being in scope has three limbs. You qualify if you manufacture a product subject to EPR requirements in that country, if you import one into it, or if you sell one there and are not based in that country.
The third limb is what catches cross-border sellers, and there is no small-seller exemption sitting behind it.
So walk your catalogue once and list the streams rather than the products.
Most sellers find packaging on every line, electricals and batteries on a subset, and single-use plastics on anything shipped with film or sold as a food container.
Do this per marketplace. The same catalogue produces a different set of numbers in each country.
Step 2. Register for German packaging yourself
Germany is where the delegation question has a hard answer, and it is the registration to begin on the day you decide to sell on Kaufland.de. A valid LUCID number is, in Kaufland's words, "a prerequisite for registration and to sell on Kaufland.de".
You register with the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister, the body that runs the LUCID packaging register, and you do it yourself wherever your company is based.
Our walk-through of the LUCID registration covers the form itself.
Two things get missed here regularly.
The first is that the LUCID number is not the whole German packaging duty. Kaufland also require you to join a dual system, which is the scheme that licenses and recycles the packaging you report.
The second is that Germany's other three numbers come from elsewhere entirely. Electricals and batteries are handled by stiftung ear, single-use plastics by the DIVID platform.
Those electricals and batteries registrations invert the packaging rule. With no German branch, Kaufland state you are required to have the stiftung ear registration carried out with the assistance of an authorised representative.
That representative then takes on responsibility for meeting the registration obligation in Germany.
Step 3. Appoint a representative where the country will not let you register alone
Six of Kaufland's nine markets require somebody else to register for you when you have no local branch. Germany makes it seven for electricals and batteries while banning it for packaging. In those countries a representative is not a convenience, it is the only route in.
What each one wants differs enough to be worth reading before you appoint anybody.
- Austria. Registration happens on the EDM portal and produces the number Austria calls a GLN. The appointment needs a notarised power of attorney in German or English, and Kaufland warn that it "will only take effect when the calendar quarter ends".
- Poland. Your representative registers you in the BDO register. The application has to be submitted in Polish, and Kaufland put the processing time at up to twelve weeks.
- Slovakia. Registration goes through an approved producer responsibility organisation, alongside the Slovak register. Kaufland add that registrations cannot be shared, since it is "not possible to register multiple people at once".
- Czechia. Packaging is handled by EKO-KOM, which also runs the licensing and the quantity reporting, and the Czech packaging register records it. Electricals and batteries need a representative or a dual system.
- Spain. Sellers not based in Spain must appoint a Representante Autorizado based there, then register per stream in the Spanish producer register.
- Italy. A representative is required if you ship to Italy with no offices there. Packaging runs through CONAI, and the Italian register covers the rest.
The lead times are why this step sits third rather than last. Poland alone can take a quarter of a year, Austria's appointment does not bite until the quarter turns, and Spain wants a tax number in hand before any stream registration starts.
If you are appointing representatives in several countries at once, our guide on appointing an authorised representative covers what to check before you sign.
Step 4. Decide in France whether the number is yours or Kaufland's
France is where Kaufland do something none of the other large marketplaces do. They will register on your behalf, for a monthly fee, in eight named categories.
Going your own way means an identifiant unique for each category you sell in, issued by that category's éco-organisme and recorded in the French producer register. France runs eighteen EPR categories in total.
Kaufland put the wait at six to eight weeks and note that the packaging identifiant is mandatory. They also require the numbers in your shop's legal notice, not only in the Seller Portal.
Taking their route means EPR Service by Kaufland. In their words, "if you do not enter your own EPR numbers for your categories, the service provides you with the required numbers".
It costs €1.90 per category per month, charged only in months where you sell, and capped at €15.20 across all eight. Eco-participation fees are passed on at the official rates with no commission added.
The service stops well short of doing your French compliance. It does not put EPR information on your invoices, label your shipping packaging, upload repairability and durability indexes, or write the take-back terms your general terms and conditions need.
Kaufland's pages also do not say whether taking the service removes your own duty to be registered, so do not read it either way.
The same service is listed for Italy from August 2026 and Spain from late summer 2026. Both are worth checking directly before you plan around them.
Step 5. Enter every number in the Seller Portal and keep it valid
Every number for all nine marketplaces goes into one place. Open Shop Settings in the Seller Portal, pick the EPR Compliance tab, choose Add another EPR number, type it in and submit it for review.
Kaufland check rather than simply store, and they are required to. Article 45 of the packaging regulation obliges an online marketplace to obtain a seller's registration number for the country the customer is in before letting that seller trade.
The same article tells them to make best efforts to judge whether what they received is complete and reliable. A number that does not survive that check is treated as no number at all.
Kaufland publish why submissions come back rejected, and all four reasons are worth knowing before you paste anything.
- The number is invalid at the register. It cannot be validated against the public list, so it fails whatever you believe about it.
- It is registered to a different company than your seller account. Same number, wrong holder.
- You submitted it as your own when it belongs to your manufacturer or an intermediate supplier. That is a labelling problem rather than a wrong number, and it is fixed by declaring whose it is.
- It is a VAT identifier in the wrong field. The most common slip of the four.
There is no grace period at the end of this. Kaufland state that a deadline extension is not possible, and that hidden offers come back only after the number has been verified.
A letter from the register confirming your application is delayed will not stop offers being hidden either, because the marketplace carries its own legal checking duty.
How Repax fits a nine-marketplace seller
None of the above is a data problem. Getting registered is paperwork you do once per country per stream. What repeats is everything after it, because each register wants quantities, on its own calendar, in its own categories.
That repeating part is what Repax Core is built for. It reads product and order data out of the systems you already sell from, and it locks the packaging specification in at the moment each order ships.
A filing you make years later can therefore still be reproduced from the orders behind it. One dataset, then a per-country cut of it for each register you hold a number with.
Try Repax Core for free - no card required Describe your products once and Core builds the report each market and scheme expects. Try it freeThe limits are worth stating plainly. Core prepares the data behind a filing. It does not submit to a register and it does not obtain your number. In the German packaging case nobody could, because nobody except you is allowed to. Comply is the Repax product that files, under a power of attorney, across EU markets.
Mistakes that get a Kaufland offer hidden
Below are the five that come up most often on a multi-marketplace Kaufland account, each of them documented by Kaufland rather than inferred.
- Treating one registration as covering the account. Numbers are per country and per stream. Nine marketplaces and four streams is not thirteen registrations, it is a grid, and Slovakia says outright that several sellers cannot share one entry.
- Handing the German packaging registration to a service provider. It is the one registration that is explicitly not delegable, so a fulfilment partner who offers to do it is offering something they are not allowed to do.
- Submitting a supplier's number as your own. If the goods are covered by your manufacturer's or supplier's registration, that number is the right one to give Kaufland, but it has to be flagged as theirs. Marking it as yours is a documented rejection reason.
- Starting Poland late. Up to twelve weeks, in Polish, and no extension at the far end of it. It is the registration most likely to be the reason a launch slips.
- Assuming the eighteen uncovered EU countries are unregulated. Kaufland ask for nothing there because they have no storefront there. Sell into those countries another way and the registration duty is exactly the same as in the nine.
Frequently asked questions about EPR numbers on Kaufland
A few things sellers ask once they start working through the list above.
How long does it take to get an EPR number?
It depends on the country. Kaufland put Poland at up to twelve weeks, France at six to eight, and the Netherlands at two to three per waste stream. Spain wants a tax number first, adding two to four weeks before any stream registration.
Can Kaufland register on your behalf?
In France, yes, for eight named product categories through EPR Service by Kaufland at €1.90 per category per month. Everywhere else, no. German packaging is the clearest case, because Kaufland state that registration cannot be commissioned to a fulfilment service provider at all.
What happens if a number is missing?
Your affected offers get hidden. Kaufland have applied this to German electricals since July 2023, and they will not grant an extension or accept a letter saying your application is delayed. Offers come back only once the number has been verified.
Do you need a number for every Kaufland marketplace?
You need one for every marketplace you have switched on, for every waste stream your products fall into there. A German packaging number does nothing for a Polish order, because the duty attaches to the country the customer is in.
Can Repax do this for you?
Repax Core handles the reporting data behind the numbers rather than the registrations themselves. It builds one packaging dataset from your orders and cuts it per country, so each register gets the quantities it asks for. Obtaining the number stays with you or your representative.
