This guide gets your company registered for extended producer responsibility (EPR) in Ireland for packaging, electronics and batteries, and settles who files each registration and what has to be in place before one is accepted.
It is written for companies established in Ireland and for those selling into it from abroad. Of the eight streams Ireland regulates, it walks through the three most sellers meet, packaging, electronics and batteries, one step at a time.
How do I register for EPR in Ireland?
Ireland puts producer duties on eight waste streams, and the three covered in full here reach two bodies. Packaging is membership of Repak, the approved compliance scheme, while electronics and batteries are registrations in PRL, the register run by Producer Register Limited.
- Packaging goes to Repak, compulsory for major producers since self-compliance ended in 2023. There is no state packaging register.
- Electronics are registered with PRL by you or your Irish representative, with your compliance scheme's certificate attached.
- Batteries are registered with PRL too, before the first battery is sold, and every battery producer must also belong to an approved scheme.
PRL issues a registration number within six weeks, and that number has to be printed on every invoice, credit note and delivery docket you send to a distributor. Both PRL registrations are renewed each year by 31 January.
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Before you apply to Repak or PRL, gather these five details and documents.
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Your company and tax numbers
Repak asks for your company registration number and your VAT or tax number. PRL's battery form also asks for a CRO number and an Eircode where your company has them.
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A compliance scheme chosen first
WEEE Ireland or ERP Ireland for household electronics and for batteries, because PRL wants the scheme's certificate with the electronics application.
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A product list sorted by stream
Your packaging by material, your electronics by category, brand and household or professional use, and your batteries by category and chemistry.
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A director and four named contacts
The battery application is signed by a director, and Repak asks for the applicant, your CEO, a finance contact and a main point of contact.
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A mandate for an Irish representative
A written mandate for an Irish-established representative, if you sell electronics or batteries directly to Irish end users from abroad.
The one question that decides your whole route
To guide you the best way, it helps to know where your company is based, because the steps are not the same for a company set up in Ireland as for one selling into Ireland from abroad.
Is your company based in Ireland or abroad?
Pick your answer below for the right guidance.
If your company is based abroad, it also matters who buys from you:
- An Irish business. That business is the producer and carries all three.
- End users directly. You are the producer, and an Irish representative files electronics and batteries.
Repak for packaging and PRL for the rest
Every EU country runs its own producer registers, and how to register for EPR in Europe walks through that frame country by country. Ireland splits the work between a scheme and a register company, and neither is a government office.
Across EPR in Ireland the three core streams need three filings. Repak holds your packaging membership, and PRL holds one registration for electronics and one for batteries, so a webshop selling a boxed device with a battery inside needs all three.
Below are Ireland's three registrations side by side, with fees as published for 2026.
| Registration | Who files from abroad | Time and cost |
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| Repak, packaging | Your Irish customer when you sell to Irish businesses. You, with an EPR representative under the PPWR, when you sell direct | No waiting time published. A fee per tonne, or a flat yearly fee for smaller members |
| PRL, electronics | Your Irish importer, or your Irish representative when you sell direct | Within six weeks. 100 to 1,250 euros plus VAT a year, by turnover |
| PRL, batteries | Your Irish importer, or your Irish representative when you sell direct | Within six weeks. The same PRL fee bands |
Two rule changes landed in 2026. In April an amendment to the Irish battery rules made membership of an approved scheme compulsory for every battery producer and moved battery registration to before the first sale.
Since 12 August 2026 the EU packaging regulation (PPWR) also makes a seller abroad that sells packaged goods directly to Irish end users appoint an EPR representative in Ireland.
Irish law has no representative route for packaging yet, and Repak's membership page takes applications straight from sellers outside Ireland, so confirm with Repak how a representative is recorded before you sign.
A 6-step guide to EPR registration in Ireland
This guide takes you from the first check, whether Ireland counts you as the producer, to a Repak membership for your packaging and a PRL number printed on your invoices. Each step closes on what you should hold before moving on.
Step 1. Confirm Ireland counts you as the producer
Each stream names its own producer, so check your products against all three.
- Packaging. You, if you supply packaging or packaged goods to others in Ireland in the course of business, or since 12 August 2026 sell them directly to Irish end users from abroad.
- Electronics. The maker or own-brand seller established here, the Irish importer, or a seller abroad shipping straight to Irish users.
- Batteries. Whoever first supplies a battery in Ireland, including the one inside a device or a vehicle.
Selling only to an Irish company makes that company the producer. Electronics and batteries have no volume threshold.
Step 2. Work out which registrations you owe
Each yes from step 1 becomes one filing, spread over two bodies. For packaging, Irish law makes Repak membership compulsory for major producers, those supplying more than 10 tonnes of packaging a year with turnover above 1 million euros.
Large companies join as Regular members and smaller businesses such as retailers and distributors as Scheduled members. A seller abroad selling direct is told by Repak that the PPWR requires it to register whatever its size.
Electronics and batteries are two separate PRL registrations, and a device with a battery inside needs both. Any other stream is in the table further down this page.
Step 3. Decide who files each one
The answer turns on where you are based and who buys from you, so find your case below.
Established in Ireland. You apply to Repak and PRL yourself. A consultant may fill in the Repak application for you, and your battery scheme may file the PRL battery application on your behalf.
Selling to Irish businesses from abroad. Your Irish customer is the producer and carries all three.
Selling directly to Irish end users from abroad. Electronics and batteries go through an Irish representative. For packaging the PPWR requires one too, while Repak still takes your application directly. How to appoint an EPR authorised representative walks the appointment.
Step 4. Gather what each registration asks for
Each application asks for different data, so collect it body by body.
- Repak. Your registered name in English, your company registration number, your VAT or tax number, your addresses and the four named contacts.
- PRL, electronics. Your tax number, your equipment by category and by household or professional use, your brand names, how you sell, a declaration that the equipment meets the hazardous-substance rules and your scheme's certificate.
- PRL, batteries. Your brand name, your battery categories with their chemistry, the scheme you belong to and a declaration signed by a director.
Step 5. Register in the order the Irish rules set
One order runs through all three, because PRL will not register you without a scheme behind you.
- Sign the mandate with an Irish representative if you sell electronics or batteries direct from abroad.
- Join your schemes. Repak for packaging, and WEEE Ireland or ERP Ireland for household electronics and for batteries. How to choose a producer responsibility organisation walks the choice.
- Open a PRL account and wait for the PRL team to approve it. Then file a new application for each stream in your dashboard, with the scheme's certificate attached.
- Wait for your number. PRL issues it within six weeks, or two weeks after any extra information it asks for.
You are done with a Repak membership and a PRL registration number for electronics and batteries.
Step 6. Do what each registration makes due next
PRL wants a report of what you placed on the Irish market in the previous month, filed in its Blackbox portal by the 19th of every month, and a renewal of both registrations by 31 January each year.
Your PRL number goes on every invoice, credit note and dispatch or delivery docket you send to a distributor. Changes to your details go to PRL within 10 working days for electronics and one month for batteries.
Packaging is reported to Repak, which charges its fee on the tonnes you declare. How to do EPR reporting walks the yearly cycle.
The other streams Ireland regulates
Beyond packaging, electronics and batteries, Ireland puts producer duties on five more streams.
Below is where four of them are registered, so you can rule them in or out in one pass.
| Stream | Register | Read more |
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| Tyres | PRL, renewed every year by 31 January, plus membership of Circol ELT | Tyres EPR in Ireland |
| Cars and vans | Membership of ELVES, which replaces registering with every local authority | Vehicles EPR in Ireland |
| Single-use plastics | Membership of TPPFG for tobacco filters. Wet wipes and balloons need a scheme by law, but none is approved yet | Single-use plastics EPR in Ireland |
| Fishing gear | Membership of Haul It Back, approved on an interim basis to the end of 2025, so check its current approval | Fishing gear EPR in Ireland |
The fifth is farm plastics such as silage sheeting and bale wrap, where producers join the Irish Farm Film Producers Group. Textiles are not on the list yet, because Ireland has not adopted its textile rules.
Monthly PRL reports from one product record
There are two ways through the work above, and both rest on the same product data.
Run the filings yourself
Every step above is data work before it is filing work. Packaging tonnes by material and by your role in the supply chain for Repak, electronics by category and brand for PRL, batteries by category and chemistry, and the PRL figures again every month.
Repax Core holds one structured record per product, broken down to its materials and components, takes your sales in through integrations or order imports, and builds the cut each report asks for.
The monthly Blackbox figures and the Repak return come out of the same record, so a device with a battery inside is described once and reported in both PRL registrations.
Try Repax Core for free - no card required Describe your products once and Core builds the report each market and scheme expects. Try it freeOr hand the filings over
If you would rather not run them yourself, Repax Comply is the managed route, linked at the top of this guide. Producers register and report through Repax market by market, with an Irish representative appointed where the rules require one.
The Irish detail to know is timing. Repak stops offering its own representative service for electronics and batteries at the end of 2026, so a seller that relied on it needs a new representative before its next PRL renewal.
For the tools that hold Irish EPR data side by side today, the best Irish EPR software in 2026 ranks them.
6 common mistakes when registering for EPR in Ireland
Below are the six mistakes that trip up producers registering in Ireland most often.
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Applying to PRL before the scheme
Opening the PRL application first. The electronics application has to carry your scheme's certificate, and the battery application asks which approved scheme you belong to.
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Planning to self-comply for batteries
Following older guidance that lets a battery producer manage its own waste batteries. Since the April 2026 amendment every battery producer must be a member of an approved scheme.
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Waiting for a packaging register
Looking for a state register or number for packaging. Ireland has none, and the EU register the PPWR foresees does not exist yet, so Repak membership is the registration.
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Leaving the number off your invoices
Treating the PRL number as a formality. It must appear on every invoice, credit note and delivery docket to a distributor, and nobody without a valid registration may show one.
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Counting a device as one registration
Registering the electronics and forgetting the battery inside. A device with a built-in battery makes you an electronics producer and a battery producer, with two PRL registrations.
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Treating the deposit as your packaging duty
Assuming Re-turn covers you. The deposit on PET drinks bottles and cans from 150 ml to 3 litres sits beside Repak membership, and everything else you pack still goes to Repak.
Frequently asked questions about registering for EPR in Ireland
Below are the five questions producers ask most often about registering for EPR in Ireland.
How long does this take?
Plan for up to six weeks per PRL registration, the longest PRL may take to issue a number, plus the time it takes to join a scheme first. A representative needs a signed mandate before PRL will register it.
Do I need a company or an address in Ireland?
No. Repak takes applications from sellers outside Ireland without an Irish VAT number. Selling electronics or batteries directly to Irish end users from abroad needs an Irish representative, and for packaging the PPWR asks for one too.
Can Repax register for me?
Yes. Repax Comply runs the Repak and PRL filings and the reporting, with an Irish representative where one is required. Your scheme memberships stay in place, because PRL registers you on the strength of them.
What happens if I sell in Ireland without registering?
An unregistered producer may not place electronics or batteries on the Irish market, and a major producer must be a Repak member. Each breach is an offence carrying a fine of up to 5,000 euros or up to 12 months in prison.
Where does my PRL number have to appear?
On every invoice, credit note and dispatch or delivery docket you issue to a distributor, for electronics and for batteries alike. Showing a PRL number you do not validly hold is itself prohibited.
