Extended producer responsibility national registers overview

Every country you sell into lists you as a producer before your first sale. Some run one register for everything, others split them by waste stream. Find each market's register and what it covers.

46 producer registers 31 countries

The system

How national registers work

The register is the country's producer list
Before your first sale in a market, you register as a producer and get a registration number. That number goes on offers and invoices, and the public list lets marketplaces and distributors check that you are compliant.
A register is not a PRO
The register is the state's list. A PRO, the producer responsibility organisation, is the scheme that collects and recycles on your behalf. In most markets you need both: register with the authority, then join an approved scheme.
Countries split them differently
Germany runs three registers split by stream: LUCID for packaging, stiftung EAR for electronics and batteries, DIVID for single-use plastics. Denmark routes every stream through one register, DPA. Same EU directives, different national setup.

Register directory

National EPR registers by country

All 46 national producer registers across 31 European markets, alphabetical by country. Each register card shows the waste streams it covers and links to a guide on who must register and how registration works. Filter by waste stream or search for a register, country or operator.

Showing all 46 registers

Why every country has a producer register

Extended producer responsibility only works if the authorities know who the producers are. The national register is that list: a public record of every company that places regulated products on the market, and the first legal step before packaging, electronics, batteries or any other stream can be reported.

The public part matters. Marketplaces and distributors check registers before they deal with a seller, so an unregistered producer is easy to spot and easy to delist.

Registration comes first, reporting never stops

The sequence is the same in most markets. You register before the first sale, join an approved scheme where the stream requires one, then report your volumes on the country's cadence.

Many markets have no minimum volume. In Germany, the first unit you place on the market triggers the duty, and producers without a local establishment must appoint an authorised representative before they can register at all.

One register or several

Where a country writes one law per stream, each law tends to bring its own register; where one waste act covers everything, one register does too. That is why Germany has three and Denmark has one, for the same set of EU directives.

So the practical order is: map your products to the waste streams they trigger, then find each market's register for those streams in the directory above. One country can mean one registration or three.

Every register wants the same data in a different shape

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