How to register for EPR in Italy in 2026

By the end of this guide your company will be registered for extended producer responsibility (EPR) in Italy for packaging, electronics and batteries, with the right party filing each entry, whether you are established in Italy or sell into it from abroad.

How do I register for EPR in Italy?

Italy has three separate EPR registrations, one each for packaging, electronics and batteries, and they run through a private consortium and the Chambers of Commerce.

• Packaging runs through membership of CONAI, the national packaging consortium, not a state register. An Italian company joins it, and a company abroad that sells to Italian businesses leaves it to its Italian importer.
• Electronics are registered in the Registro AEE at the Chamber of Commerce, part of RENAP, the national producers register. From abroad an Italian authorised representative files it.
• Batteries are registered in the Registro Pile, also at the Chamber of Commerce and also part of RENAP. From abroad an Italian authorised representative files it too.

The electronics and battery registrations must be in place before your first product reaches the Italian market, and the CONAI membership within a month of your first invoice. Each Chamber registration ends in a registration number, and CONAI gives you a member code instead.

What to gather first

Before you open any of the three portals, gather these five company details and documents.

1. Your tax and VAT numbers. An Italian company needs its codice fiscale and partita IVA. From abroad, your representative files with your own company and VAT numbers.
2. A digital signature. Every Chamber of Commerce filing is signed digitally, by your legal representative or a delegate, with a smart card, a business key or the CNS card.
3. Your products by stream, with packaging by material, electronics by category and batteries by category and chemistry.
4. Every brand name you sell under in Italy.
5. The collective schemes you plan to join, because both Chamber registrations ask which one you use.

The one question that decides your whole route

For packaging, it also matters who buys from you:

• An Italian business. Your Italian importer joins CONAI and pays the fee.
• Consumers directly. You are the producer, and you appoint an EPR representative in Italy.

One consortium and two Chamber registrations

EPR registration is national everywhere in Europe, and how to register for EPR in Europe sets out the frame. Italy fills it in its own way.

Across EPR in Italy the duties most producers trigger sit in these three. A webshop selling a boxed hair dryer with a rechargeable battery touches all of them, and the answer to who files each one from abroad is not the same.

Below are Italy's three registrations side by side, with fees as the operators publish them in September 2026.

Two rules moved in 2026. Since 12 August the EU packaging regulation (PPWR) makes a seller abroad that ships packaged goods straight to Italian consumers the producer in Italy, with an EPR authorised representative. Italy has not yet named the register that representative will file in.

The battery register is moving too. A decree in force since 7 March 2026 creates a new battery register inside RENAP, and once it opens every producer files again within 60 days, including those already registered.

A 6-step guide to EPR registration in Italy

This guide takes you from the first check, whether Italy counts you as the producer, to holding every registration you need. The steps run in the order Italy's registrations depend on each other, and each one ends with what you should have in hand before you move on.

Step 1. Confirm Italy counts you as the producer

Each stream draws the line in its own place. For packaging, Italian law puts the duty on two groups: producers, who make or import packaging and packaging materials, and users, who fill, sell or import packaged goods. Both join CONAI, so importing packaged goods makes you a user.

For electronics you are the producer if you place equipment on the Italian market, and that includes a company abroad selling directly to Italian households or businesses.

For batteries the test is the same, with batteries built into devices, e-bikes and vehicles counted.

You are done when every product line has a yes or no against each stream, and a note of whether you sell it to Italian businesses or straight to consumers.

Step 2. Work out which registers you owe

Each yes maps to one entry. Packaging goes to CONAI plus one of its material consortia, and packaging EPR in Italy explains the contribution that comes with it.

Electronics go to the Registro AEE and batteries to the Registro Pile, both at the Chamber of Commerce and both inside RENAP, the national producers register.

A company abroad that only sells to Italian businesses can usually cross packaging off, because its Italian importer carries it.

You are done with the list of entries you owe. The hair dryer sold straight to Italian consumers from abroad owes all three, in two systems. Any other stream you sell into is in the table further down this page.

Step 3. Decide who files each one

Established in Italy. You file both Chamber registrations yourself or let a delegate with a digital signature file them in your name, and you join CONAI online. Under the new battery decree, your battery collective system can also file that registration if you give it a written delegation.

Selling from abroad. Your Italian authorised representative files electronics and batteries at the Chamber of Commerce where it is based. For packaging, your Italian importer joins CONAI, and when you sell straight to consumers your EPR authorised representative carries the duty.

You are done when each registration has a name against it. How to appoint an EPR authorised representative walks the appointment.

Step 4. Gather what each register asks for

Each portal takes a different cut of the same company data, so collect it register by register.

1. CONAI asks for your tax and VAT numbers, whether you are a producer or a user of packaging, your main material and the material consortia you join. A company abroad requests its own form from CONAI and names an address in Italy.
2. The Registro AEE asks for your equipment categories and types, whether they go to households, your brands, how you finance the waste and its guarantee, and whether you sell at a distance.
3. The Registro Pile asks for your brand names and company numbers, your battery categories and chemistry, and the collective system you join.

Both Chamber registrations are signed digitally, so the signature from the list above is needed twice.

Step 5. Register in the order the dependencies set

In Italy each entry waits on something else, so that decides the order.

1. Appoint your authorised representative first if you sell from abroad. It files both Chamber registrations at its own Chamber of Commerce.
2. Join the collective schemes. The Registro AEE refuses a household electronics producer without one, and a battery registration is only accepted once the scheme you name confirms you.
3. File in the Registro AEE and the Registro Pile before your first sale.
4. Join CONAI within a month of your first invoice if you are established in Italy.

How to choose a producer responsibility organisation compares the schemes. You are done when you hold two registration numbers and a CONAI member code, or a note of who holds the packaging duty for you.

Step 6. Do what each registration makes due next

Each entry starts its own yearly routine.

1. Packaging. Declare your packaging and pay the CONAI contribution per material, monthly, quarterly or yearly depending on what you paid the year before, and quarterly in your first year. Below 200 euros a year for a material, you declare nothing for it.
2. Electronics. Put your registration number on invoices and receipts, and on your website if you sell at a distance. Report the quantities you placed on the market every year through the MUD return, even when the figure is zero. The date is set each year, and in 2026 it was 3 July.
3. Batteries. The new battery decree puts your number on transport documents and invoices and sets the yearly report of quantities for 31 March.

The other streams Italy regulates

Beyond packaging, electronics and batteries, Italy has producer rules or plans for six more streams.

Below is the register each one runs through, where there is one, so you can rule them in or out in one pass.

One product record behind CONAI and RENAP

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 weights by material for the CONAI contribution, equipment by category split between households and businesses, batteries by category and chemistry, and then the same figures again for every declaration.

Repax Core holds one structured record per product, broken down to its materials and components, takes your sales data in through integrations or order imports, and builds each report from it.

The CONAI declaration, the yearly MUD figures and your battery report all come out of that one record.

Or hand the filings over

Repax Comply, linked at the top of this guide, runs registrations market by market and works through an authorised representative where a country requires one, as Italy does for electronics and batteries filed from abroad. It confirms coverage stream by stream before it starts.

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6 common mistakes when registering for EPR in Italy

Below are the six mistakes producers make most often when they register in Italy.

1. Looking for a packaging register

   Searching RENAP or the Chambers of Commerce for a packaging entry. Italy has none yet. Packaging is a CONAI membership that ends in a member code, and RENAP holds electronics, batteries and tyres only.

2. Missing the August change

   Assuming a company abroad still owes nothing for packaging. Since 12 August 2026 a seller that ships packaged goods straight to Italian consumers is the producer in Italy and needs an EPR authorised representative.

3. Registering before joining a scheme

   Filing in the Registro AEE before choosing a collective scheme. A household electronics registration without one is refused, and a battery registration waits for the scheme to confirm you.

4. Treating the battery number as final

   Assuming the current battery registration settles it. When the new battery register opens, every producer files again within 60 days, including those already registered.

5. Registering a device only once

   Filing a gadget with a built-in battery as electronics only. It makes you an electronics producer and a battery producer at once, so it needs the Registro AEE and the Registro Pile.

6. Stopping at the member code

   Treating the one-off CONAI fee as the whole packaging bill. The contribution per material is declared and paid for as long as you sell, on top of the membership.

Frequently asked questions about registering for EPR in Italy

Below are the five questions producers ask most often about registering for EPR in Italy.

How long does this take?

Neither CONAI nor the Registro AEE publishes a waiting time. The new battery register allows up to 60 days to authorise you and 15 more for the number, so start with the representative and the schemes.

Do I need a company or an address in Italy?

No. Without one, an Italian authorised representative files your electronics and battery registrations. For packaging you need neither when you sell to Italian businesses, and an EPR authorised representative when you sell straight to consumers.

Does CONAI membership count as registering for packaging?

Yes, for now. Italy has no state packaging register, so CONAI membership and its member code are how you meet the duty. Italy has still to name the register the EU packaging regulation requires.

Can Repax register for me?

Repax Comply runs registrations market by market, with an authorised representative where the law requires one, as Italy does from abroad. Repax Core prepares the product data behind each filing and every CONAI declaration.

What happens if I sell in Italy without registering?

Electronics and batteries may not go on sale until they are registered. Selling electronics unregistered carries a fine of up to 100,000 euros, the new battery decree sets up to 120,000 euros, and skipping CONAI costs up to 46,500 euros.