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Extended producer responsibility (EPR) country overview

The waste streams are European. The rules are national. Every market sets its own registration duties, registers, fees and deadlines. Pick a country to see what it regulates and where producers sign up.

31 countries 46 producer registers 16 waste streams

The system

Why EPR changes at every border

Directives set the goal, countries set the rules
EU directives decide that packaging, electronics or batteries carry producer responsibility. How you register, what you report and what it costs is written into national law. The same product means different duties in every market.
Every market means its own registration
There is no EU-wide producer number. You register in each country you sell into, before the first sale, and get a national producer ID that authorities and marketplaces check.
Countries organise it differently
Germany splits registration across three registers. Denmark routes every waste stream through one, DPA. France adds waste streams of its own through the AGEC law, like furniture and toys. A country page shows the exact setup you face.

Country directory

Pick your country

All 31 markets tracked today. Each country page shows the waste streams it regulates, the registers producers sign up in and the duties on the way.

EU member states · 27
Austria 7 EPR streams · 1 producer register Belgium 9 EPR streams · 2 producer registers Bulgaria 9 EPR streams · 2 producer registers Croatia 9 EPR streams · 1 producer register Cyprus 8 EPR streams · 1 producer register Czech Republic 8 EPR streams · 2 producer registers Denmark 8 EPR streams · 1 producer register Estonia 8 EPR streams · 2 producer registers Finland 9 EPR streams · 1 producer register France 16 EPR streams · 1 producer register Germany 8 EPR streams · 3 producer registers Greece 10 EPR streams · 1 producer register Hungary 10 EPR streams · 1 producer register Ireland 8 EPR streams · 1 producer register Italy 9 EPR streams · 1 producer register Latvia 9 EPR streams · 1 producer register Lithuania 9 EPR streams · 1 producer register Luxembourg 6 EPR streams · 1 producer register Malta 7 EPR streams · 1 producer register Netherlands 11 EPR streams · 2 producer registers Poland 9 EPR streams · 1 producer register Portugal 10 EPR streams · 1 producer register Romania 9 EPR streams · 3 producer registers Slovakia 8 EPR streams · 1 producer register Slovenia 8 EPR streams · 3 producer registers Spain 7 EPR streams · 3 producer registers Sweden 8 EPR streams · 1 producer register
EEA members · 3
Iceland 8 EPR streams · 1 producer register Liechtenstein 5 EPR streams · 1 producer register Norway 8 EPR streams · 1 producer register
United Kingdom · 1
United Kingdom 6 EPR streams · 3 producer registers
EPR national registers All 46 producer registers, which country runs which and what each covers. EPR waste streams What each stream counts, who is obligated and where the rules apply.

EPR is EU policy carried out through national law

A directive obliges member states to make producers pay for the end of life of what they sell. Each state then writes its own act: who counts as a producer, which register to join, what cadence to report on and what a tonne of packaging costs. The directive is shared; everything a producer touches is national.

For a producer the work multiplies by market, not by product. One catalog sold into five countries is five registrations, five reporting calendars and five fee schedules.

What this EPR country overview covers

One page per market, 31 in total. Each country page lists the waste streams that carry producer duties there today, the register behind each one and the duties on the way. Use it to scope a market before you sell into it, or to audit one you already ship to.

The same data is organised the other way around in the waste stream guides, and register by register in the national register directory.

Where to start

Start from your sales data. List the countries where you placed products last year, open each one above and match its regulated waste streams against your catalog. Countries where you sell without a registration are the gap to close first.

Turn one product spec into any EPR report

Spec your products once. Repax generates the report each national register and scheme expects, in every country you sell into.

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